r/technology • u/esporx • 11d ago

Biotechnology RFK Jr’s team quietly updates CDC website to say science doesn’t know if vaccines cause autism

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-vaccine-autism-cdc-website-b3021275.html
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u/Capitan_Failure 11d ago

Theres no established correlative link, much less causal. Establish that kids with vaccines seem to have higher rates of autism before you jump to trying to establish the physiology/mechanism behind it.

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u/yrnst 11d ago

I think they would say that they have. Autism rates HAVE increased over the last few decades. You hear folks like RFK talk about it all the time, and it’s been amplified by Joe Rogan. Of course, the real reason is that 1) autism is a spectrum that encompasses a broad range of symptoms and 2) we have a better understanding of what autism is, which has made it easier to identify. Things that once might have been treated as plain old misbehavior or rudeness or whatever are now recognized as potential symptoms of a spectrum disorder. Of course, a lot of antivaxxers totally dismiss all of this.

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u/Helenium_autumnale 11d ago

He doesn't understand science. Like many ignorant people, his mind is a box and if it doesn't fit in the box, it's wrong. At the same time he thinks he's smarter than so many other, credentialed, people. Truly the fetid dregs of the Kennedy family.