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Because people think autism equals very low functioning and intellectually disabled boys, so all those autistic people are both faking it to take autism away from very low functioning and intellectually disabled boys, and are the very low functioning and intellectually disabled boys themselves (if they say otherwise they're just being kept in an illusion by well intentioned parents - this was allegedly stolen from some movie as The Silence Of The Lambs wasn't the only place where bigots plagiarized their bigotry) to make the statistics look bad.

It actually helps their cause that there is a new study now - according to their disinformation machine this is just another “opinion” and proves their point.

KGB manuals written decades ago in the Cold War outline this tactic for destabilizing nations and getting populations to stop holding their government accountable, it's the relatively simple process of just amplifying every argument, every side of every social issue, every scandal and every news story from the most extreme framing and to make sure you're turning even the most reasonable idea into two extreme sides screaming nonsense at each other.

And for average, poorly educated, incurious people, a scientific argument is as nonsensical as a rambling spiel about raw milk and essential oils. If you don't know how cells and chemistry work on even the most basic level, you have no framework to question if it makes sense putting red meat at the top of a new food pyramid. You just see arguments that you don't understand both for and against it.

Since most people now get curated, atomized perspectives of the world, they don't have a baseline to refer to for truth, so this effect has been distilled and enhanced with the internet and algorithms. Many people just read stories with competing, extremist language all day and tune the fuck out. They don't know who or what to trust anymore, because everyone is shrieking that everyone else is lying, so they default to just whatever their mainstream media reporters tell them and stop feeling involved or connected at all. This is how state-media takes over a nation and cements the rule of the manipulative ruling-class.

Cancer? Just slap some beef tallow on that bad boy and you'll be right as rain. See? Even Dr. Oz agrees!

The lie makes its way around the world before the truth has even put its shoes on. Lies are easy to make up. It takes ages to do studies and data reviews to gather evidence. It's sad that this needed to be done to counter bullshit. The MMR vaccine lies still won't go away after decades of disproving.

"One last thing," said Beatty. "At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh? Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They're about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction. And if they're nonfiction, it's worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another's gullet. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost."

Captain Beattys all.

Yeah, people have to understand that right-wing politics considers science merely a tool to accumulate wealth and power. Thus right-wingers will not acknowledge that science pursues scientific truth, but rather insist that science that contradicts them must be a challenge to their interests that aims to embolden their political opponents and thus must be expunged.

They defunded promising cancer cure research for this.

It was paid for by special interests or some shit

In your mind he bought Tylenol shares, then tanked the value of those shares, then profit? I think in this case what is more likely is because RFK claimed he would find the cause for autism they had to find a scape goat.

They have really caused a bit of a headache, haven't they

We know what is linked to autism. It’s pollution.

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