[bmau5]

Why they picked something that has extremely compelling evidence to the contrary, rather than just saying "ultraprocessed foods" or older parenting age is beyond me. I don't see how this serves their agenda, and clearly isn't grounded in any facts

[bediger4000]

It looks like maybe the agenda is to make autism the parents' fault. Then those elite, genetically superior upper crust folks can demand that morally inferior parents who damaged their children take on the burden of supporting, and maybe hiding, their mutant offspring.

As an additional bonus, the diagnosis of autism becomes a moral fault of the parents, something to be avoided if possible, hidden if not. Another lever to use on people, like being gay was up to the 1980s, or having African American ancestry was until the 1970s.

[ModernMech]

Not the parents’, specifically the mother’s fault.

[kccoder]

They don't care about facts. At this point I think it is fair to say they don't understand what a fact is. They prefer "alternative facts", which is another way of saying they will claim, without evidence, or even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that anything which aligns with their feelings or beliefs, or serves their purposes, is a fact, reality be damned.

[olooney]

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views." - Dr. Who

[ModernMech]

Trump, today: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel."

Medical advice broadcast to the nation based on Trump’s feelings.

[moogly]

Don't underestimate these horrid men's wish to control women and their bodies. "Tough it out", was this clown's words.

[bmau5]

I hear you. I just have a hard time believing he does anything without some direct tie back to his bank account. If we find he has short positions in Kenvue it'll make more sense to me.

[moogly]

Oh, you'll be hearing from now on that he saved America from the scourge of autism, something no other president has ever managed to do, and certainly not Obama or Biden because they were horrible, just horrible, presidents. Just like he stopped 7 wars, but really, it was 10 wars, and they were horrible wars, and he saved mill-yins and mill-yins of lives. Just tremendous work, he'll have you know.

[xp84]

That would certainly fit the pattern we've seen. I'm always floored by how small the grifts are. Like, if I were a 'morally flexible' President and had at least a billion dollars already, I sure wouldn't consider being influenced by 9 figures or less. Come talk to me when it's going to enrich my 'team' by at least 10 billion. For anything less than that I'd be determined to appear straight as an arrow. For Trump you can approve a new golf course for him and he'll just executive order whatever you want.

[anigbrowl]

For one thing, he knows he's more or less untouchable legally and politically. The American establishment no longer has the will to police itself properly due to institutional capture.

For another, directe enrichment isn't the only incentive for corruption. It also corrupts the giver, and having control over lots of small and medium people who are already corrupted is worth more than the up front cash value.

[al_borland]

Hopefully people are watching to make sure none of them shorted the stock.

[xp84]

~I thought J&J already settled a big class-action lawsuit on that, didn't they?~

Edit: I was misremembering an ongoing lawsuit as having been resolved: https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/MDL/22md3043

[al_borland]

Apparently J&J spun off their consumer health products, including Tylenol to Kenvue in 2023.

[xp84]

I didn't realize at first that the spin-off would be the ones who retain the legal liability but I suppose it makes sense with it being split off from the original company (which makes more sense than if Tylenol was sold to a third party).

[rsynnott]

What stock? Paracetamol was first synthesised over 150 years ago; it is the most generic of generic drugs. It's also, well, not a big profit centre for anyone; it costs practically nothing.

[al_borland]

Kenvue. J&J spun off their consumer products, including Tylenol, into Kenvue a couple years ago. It dropped 7.5% on the news to an all-time low.

[anigbrowl]

Compelling evidence guarantees opposition from rationally inclined people. Opposition serves as 'negative proof' to the conspiratorially minded, and causes them to circle the wagons in defense of their leaders. Trump gets loyalty and probably money while posturing that he's 'standing up to big pharma'.