Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
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Cutting a division led by an expert like Erin McCanlies is a huge step backward for scientific research. Understanding environmental causes of autism is critical, and politicizing it does real harm.
aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
RFK Jr.'s soul job is to see how many Americans he can make sick and die.
aug 30, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Fire RFK Jr now. He is not only unfit for the job, his actions will kill more Americans when the next pandemic arrives. It is not if but when. Every senator who voted for this selfish bastard should be thrown out of office, because they cared about politics than country.
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 9 0 • view
That's up to Krasnov and he won't allow it
aug 30, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
And that they continue to sit back and do nothing is unforgivable - Remember each and every one of them,especially those who are up for reelection in 2026 (which includes 2 MDs: Cassidy and Marshall).
aug 30, 2025, 3:26 pm • 3 0 • view
If these and other senators don’t represent their constituents, throw them out. This applies to Democrats also who are silent spectators who doesn’t want to speak up and are beholden to Oligarchs for their reelection. Need new blood and good trouble makers.
aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Of course, because he "really" wants to figure it out. So shutdown everything and run ONE study make it what he says it is, fuck reality... Right?
aug 31, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
When you have already decided what the answer is why would u keep looking?
aug 30, 2025, 2:02 pm • 37 1 • view
He hasn't yet found the cause of why he is the way he is that doesn't hold him culpable for the damage he did to himself through alcohol/drug use. Notice that his new health plan holds people responsible for what they do to their bodies when it comes to medical coverage, or no medical coverage.
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Ironically he believes that all medical conditions are caused by our food and environment, so cutting someone who's trying to find the environmental cause is actually counter to his goals.
aug 30, 2025, 2:03 pm • 28 0 • view
No one said it has to be logical
aug 30, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
That's because he's a psychopath. Like, I believe, an actual clinical psychopath.
aug 30, 2025, 2:11 pm • 27 1 • view
The inmates are running the asylum.
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Yup. Anything to sell supplements and assure himself that he's smarter than the experts because he's in on a big secret.
aug 30, 2025, 2:26 pm • 15 1 • view
He's a psychopath, but also kind of a dim and easily controlled for one's purposes kind.
aug 30, 2025, 3:28 pm • 6 0 • view
And vaccines. Don’t forget the vaccines.
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 2 0 • view
..... autisim isnt really a "medical condition" its a genetic quirk.
aug 30, 2025, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
True. I'm just categorizing it how he sees it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:28 pm • 3 0 • view
ah... ok my bad
aug 30, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Nw. I absolutely see how that may have come across.
aug 30, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Autism is found IN THE GENES first and foremost
aug 30, 2025, 2:45 pm • 8 0 • view
When are we going to research the environmental causes of not being autistic? Those people need help.
aug 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The head of HEALTH DEPT says, “WE NEED TO STOP BELIEVING EXPERTS.” We’re all in serious trouble, especially this winter.
aug 30, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Because the only "cause" eugenicists find for ailments is the excuse to purge people. bsky.app/profile/prop...
aug 30, 2025, 2:49 pm • 4 2 • view
What is the phrase? 🤔 Oh, ya. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 pm • 3 0 • view
RFK Jr is dumb as a brick......
aug 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
kennedy had no medical or scientific background. He relies on his worm infested brain to spew out faulty information. Even the stupid sitting republicans can't want people to die because of this snake oil salesman.
aug 30, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Exposer to fumes while the mom is pregnant. Things like diesel and other chemicals used in factories. This in addition to genetic factors. It is pretty obvious that RFK Jr has no interest in actual science. If there is a cause, it has to be a cause that he has determined. It is probably windmills.
aug 30, 2025, 3:27 pm • 3 0 • view
It's genetic. scienceoveracuppa.com/2023/07/11/a...
aug 30, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
#FireRFK
aug 30, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Men are too emotional to lead.
aug 30, 2025, 2:02 pm • 22 1 • view
Wrong
aug 30, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
You mad bro?
aug 30, 2025, 3:37 pm • 7 0 • view
Way too emotional, so emotional in fact they're emotionally constipated. Emotional constipation can cause murder, mayhem, rape, ethnic cleansing, genocide, war(s) and a whole host of emotion driven male identified activities. Yup, too emotional, it's just a fact.
aug 31, 2025, 1:19 pm • 2 0 • view
So true!
aug 31, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Everything he’s doing makes a lot more sense when you realize his was hired to kill as many undesirables as possible
aug 30, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
there is no environmental causes of autism.
aug 30, 2025, 3:08 pm • 40 0 • view
What was his timeline? He gave us a date for when we would absolutely know the cause.
aug 30, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
People prefer to blame the environment rather than take ownership over this one. Which is interesting since we've managed to remove a lot of heavy metals but never the Boomer thinking.
aug 30, 2025, 3:30 pm • 23 2 • view
The boo-hoo GOP is exhausted from simply being asked to accommodate other humans. Pathetic. PS Lead poisoning is a lifelong affliction
aug 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 2 0 • view
It's the Boomers that blazed the trail toward understanding and diagnosing autism. Boomers, Boomers everywhere in the field of study for decades and decades. Think before you push post. Too many of us Boomers who were there know the reality of the situation, you do not.
aug 31, 2025, 1:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Never say never without evidence
aug 30, 2025, 3:10 pm • 5 0 • view
I mean, they basically stated a null hypothesis. If you want it stated accurately in common parlance we have no evidence that there are environmental causes of autism.
aug 30, 2025, 3:14 pm • 29 3 • view
The best I've heard is maybe there's some kind of link between the gut biome and mental health, but the last I read about it, it was very tenuous and needed a lot of experimentation.
aug 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 3 0 • view
It's genetic. scienceoveracuppa.com/2023/07/11/a...
aug 30, 2025, 4:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Isn't that the point of research program? When I was young, people believed that the cause of stomach ulcers was stress. Now we know it is commonly H pylori bacteria.
aug 30, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't disagree with that, we do basic and applied science for good reason, even where it looks like we have solid answers. I replied because I read the comment to imply that there are causes and/or asking for proof of a negative.
aug 30, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Autism has an environmental cause; being thortistic (autistic) doesn't.
aug 30, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Thortistics and thortistics with autism have ❤️ together.
aug 30, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
“Genetic factors account for a significant portion of autism cases. Research like the kind McCanlies and other government-funded scientists have conducted over the past two decades has established that environmental factors have a role, too, and can combine with genetics.“
aug 30, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
There’s been a number of studies that have linked heavy metals, air pollution and pesticides to an increased risk of autism. Genetics is by far the largest factor but there are environmental and societal factors as well.
aug 30, 2025, 5:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Correct…RFK Jr only wants to prove his UNPROVEN vaccine connection…if they get rid of all scientists and insert conspiracy nuts they see a chance
aug 30, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
First ever w from Robert F. Kennedy Jr in all of history (it will be about 1 year and 37 days til the next)
aug 30, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Typical republican strategy, right now. Improving the US right into the ground
aug 30, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
He doesn't need science. He is one fucked up dude.
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
thank you for your reporting on Erin McCanlies work
aug 30, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t know what I can type with words to express how I feel about this—but it is a long weekend, so I’m thinking it would be great for us to gather. bsky.app/profile/5050...
aug 30, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
rfk the Lesser is following trump's game plan to remove any credible dissenting voices.
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s already decided the cause is vaccines. Genuine research is a threat to his narrative, as well as to his goal of eliminating autistic people.
aug 30, 2025, 2:50 pm • 9 0 • view
If they actually nail down the real causes then he can't demonize other things for it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:20 pm • 6 0 • view
Or rather, they still would, but less effectively.
aug 30, 2025, 2:20 pm • 3 0 • view
If he finds the cause of autism then he’ll have nothing to bitch about.
aug 30, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The simple fact is we should be horrified that a former heroin addict, conspiracy theorist who had a parasitic worm in his brain, and has no health policy or medical background is running the US HHS. What could possibly go wrong is everything, and it is.
aug 30, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Cap'n BrainWorm doesn't want facts and data. He wants to promote his conspiracy theories.
aug 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Because he is pushing the vaccine scenario and doesn't want anyone to know the real cause.
aug 30, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
RFK Jr. is a quack. His acts of commission and omission will cause many diseases and deaths. He will pour money down conspiracy rabbit holes chasing crank ideas about causality. That Lysenkoistic child must be impeached. In the name of public health. And reason.
aug 30, 2025, 2:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Still waiting on that bloviating moron to stop drooling Shitler’s semen and find that cure for autism… www.bbc.com/news/article...
aug 30, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Regrettably, Erin, you were looking for the cause of being thortistic (autistic), which we know is a healthy neurotype carried in our genes i.e it has a genetic cause, and you weren't looking for the cause of thortistic difabilities i.e. autism, which is largely caused by environmental factors.
aug 30, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
❤️ your work; much was right.
aug 30, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Kennedy is a danger to the country for so many reasons.
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
This guy has more than one worm in his brain. And they're obviously not dead!!!
aug 30, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
RFK already has a conclusion. Now he just has to find the “science” to make it fit.
aug 30, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a wasteland they are going to leave to their own children and grandchildren after they destroy everything. On purpose. Deliberately. I will never understand this.
aug 30, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for posting:)
aug 30, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
We’ve known since RFK’s announcement that he’s going to blame vaccines & food dyes so he has no need for actual scientists
aug 30, 2025, 2:14 pm • 16 0 • view
Secondary & tertiary effects from the pre & post World War I&II mass industrialization of agriculture & manufacturing; OR, maybe, there have always been people on a spectrum & RFKJr eats road kill worm chasers with his whiskey breakfast. 🤷♀️
aug 30, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
It's genetic.
aug 30, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, you are correct. Once again, the need for a sarcasm tag for a bot account arises. You are the hero we all deserve, Confessor, now go back to whinging about being an incel with a Con-Dar flare up before Richard dumps your ass for a Mord-Sith.
aug 30, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
You are clearly too stupid to even make a coherent reply. There is no point in engaging with you further.
aug 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, but we've only just begun! My time is your time, Bot-Sith, and I have all the time in the world. Engangement is mandatory until you hit that block button, and in that moment, you lose. Meeting you had been a pleasure!
aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are y’all trying to make the brain work guy look sane by talking about how he cut that quack?
aug 30, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The probable cause of the increase in autism is the increase in scientific research, increase in trained professionals, increase in proper diagnosis and treatment if needed. Back in the day they stamped you with "retarded" and put you in a facility, few cases were diagnosed as autism back then.
aug 31, 2025, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
He's not interested in scientific facts, what he listens to, apart from his brain worm is the craziest made up reason ever from a suspended eye doctor or something.
aug 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
He does not want people with expertise. He wants people agreeable to making shit up. Preferably, weird bizarre nonsensical shit. Because this is what ridiculously stupid people want to hear.
aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
🤬🔥
aug 30, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Here come the wellness farms
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The damage done by those #SickFux will likely take generations to repair.
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Always opposite day with these assholes...
aug 30, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
He needs to be fired
aug 30, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
pppssst, it is hereditary.
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 pm • 6 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 3:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Do not blame the Brain Worm. Its host is an ASSHOLE!
aug 30, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
RFK is looking more like Trump in behavior.
aug 30, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s genetic, ask me how I know.
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
“Leadership” is doing a lot of work in that headline.
aug 30, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view