Why is this 70 year old guy so obsessed with something he knows nothing about? Why name Tylenol the “cause” of autism when he obviously wants to say its vaccines?
I get that the underlying goal of MAHA is eugenics, but I just don’t get why or this angle. I haven’t come across much really talking about it. Everything is focused on the fact that its obviously ridiculous that Tylenol (or anything) causes autism, but what is the obession with finding this nonexistent cause?
He’s anti-medicine in general. He does not believe in modern medicine. RFK and Trump point to there being more diagnoses of autism than in the past. This is due to the advances of modern medicine making new discoveries. RFK presents the assumption that the rise in cases must be due some external factor increasing the number of people with autism, rather than modern medicine being better at detecting autism. Trump said the same exact thing about Covid. He famously said that we shouldn’t do Covid testing because that increases the number of Covid cases. The mind of a child believes that if something is not observed, then it does not exist.
There is a very simple way to understand the mind of right wingers and many religious people. They believe in the “just world fallacy”. They believe that good things only happen to people who deserve it. Example: Billionaires are rich because they are good. They believe that bad things only happen to people that deserve it. Example: poor people deserve to be poor, sick people did something wrong to get sick, victims of violence did something wrong to provoke it, etc. Within this mindset, the individual explains bad things happening in 2 ways, either they deserved it or it didn’t happen.
RFK and others are blaming Tylenol and Vaccines as a way to say that people with Autism did something wrong to deserve it. The second half will be reducing Autism detection methods, so that there will be more undiagnosed Austistic people. RFK and others will eventually move on to denying that Autism exists.
The goal is remove responsibility from the government. The goal of RFK is for people to die of preventable or curable diseases because he doesn’t want the government to spend money on medical research or helping people. In his mind, sick people deserve it or are faking it.