Health officials in Trump administration were accused of fueling ‘crisis of public trust’ over autism and vaccines
Misinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a recently released report.
Experts say that officials in the past year have focused intently on both vaccines and autism, including efforts to connect autism to the use of acetaminophen (frequently sold as Tylenol) during pregnancy, despite growing evidence of no link, and replacing all members of the federal autism committee with advisers who have anti-vaccine and pseudoscientific histories.
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 103 pts · 127d
Disinformation. It's intentional.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 37 pts · 127d
How about we just go back to "lies" so the simple-minded folks who always fall for that crap can have a chance of "getting it" for once?
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 2 pts · 126d
It always seems to be the lying authoritarians themselves who shout "LIES" the loudest, and that may be a problem. Because if you do the same thing, even with honest intentions, you become just like them, in the public imagination at least.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 126d
But those who pay attention know which is the truth, while yelling "lies" seems to work on the clueless - seems win-win to me.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
I actually believe he is so stupid and poisoned by false sources that it isn't.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 127d
I wonder if this how Roman civilians felt when the empire fell apart.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 18 pts · 127d
RFKJr does remind me of Caligula's horse...
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
RFK jr. was never a senator, though.
Also, obligatory Modey Lemon.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 2 pts · 126d
Noice! I never heard that before but always like random music :)
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Their first two albums fuckin’ rip. Completely changed after that.
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 126d
Roman empire fell apart over a few hundred years. USA is speed running this, so it'll be a tad more stressful.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 126d
We’ve been speed-running this since Nixon was in office.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 125d
I would imagine slaves and other outgroups were glad.
rayyy@piefed.social · 37 pts · 127d
The whole US is drowning in right wing LIES dressed up as news, not just government disinformation.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 4 pts · 127d
Plug for an anti-disinformation creator I support on Patreon:
Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
Dr. Wilson! That dude is absolutely awesome. I first saw him on a debate where he and professor Dave completely embarrassed a pair of vaccine sceptics. All his stuff is awesome.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 4 pts · 126d
I have literal fantasies where Wilson is more popular than Rogan
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 126d
Shout-out to Professor Dave, Miniminuteman, and Logicked at least his old videos on Kent Hovind and other quaks.
rayyy@piefed.social · 0 pts · 125d
Thanks for the link. Here's some music.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 126d
Remember (because the media hushed it up), he said autistic people should be sent to work camps. This is the beginning of Final Solution 2.0.
Drusas@fedia.io · 14 pts · 126d
And not only people with autism. People addicted to drugs, people who take antidepressants or Adderall.... Sent to perform farm labor and be "re-parented' in the case of young people.
In case anyone doesn't remember/believe it, articles about it are easy to find.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5798733/rfk-jr-addiction-treatment-centers
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 126d
They may can force us into camps, but I assure you most of us have pathological demand avoidance (pda), we’d rather die than do something we don’t want to. We can be some of the most stubborn assholes you’d ever meet.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 22 pts · 127d
These facists would have us all rounded up and put in the camps with the other undesirables.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 127d
ADX Florence won't fit them in. Would rather send them to a penal colony in Antarctica.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 127d
Of course they will. You refuse to fight back. Where do you think this is going?
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 126d
You don't know me. You don't know who I am or what I do.
But yes, my fellow citizens are not standing up enough. In fact, a ton of my local community strongly approves of what's happening. They will gladly watch their friends and family dragged away.
DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 127d
Oh they're fighting back, all right. Their fighting is downvoting Lemmy comments critical of their apathy and hoping that the next election makes a difference, even though they won't actually show up and vote themselves for reasons.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 126d
100%.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
V10l3nt rev01ut10n is impossible in the 21st century.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 126d
Intentionally mistaking cowardice for helplessness
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 126d
They hate us cause they ain't us.
No, seriously, they dont actually believe we are capable of feats of intelligence or rejection of authority and that we fear our routine getting fucked with or people lying to us.
They see us as a threat to their power, not as an easy target.
etherphon@piefed.world · 15 pts · 127d
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 126d
I'm autistic. I'm also comfortably retired with a wife, two cats, a house, and a Honda Accord. I'm not dependent on anyone. And now I actually have to have real concerns that I may get a late night visit from the Mental Normality Police.
etherphon@piefed.world · 4 pts · 126d
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 126d
Isn’t drowning a legitimate concern when you hang out with the Kennedys?
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 126d
Seems wrong to paint the whole family for one drunk driver.
xc2215x@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 127d
What he says about autism is simply not true.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 126d
Duffman says a lot of things and most of it is not true. A demonstrable untrustworthy source. A man of great harm. He wears ignorance on his sleeve. Those that have empowered him bear the greatest guilt.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 127d
There, the triumph of lying and deception on a massive scale, and all the bastards are reveling in the chaos, death and destruction they make.