This is an outstanding and essential post. Dr. Andrea Love combines scientific rigor, clarity, and moral courage in a way few can. Her detailed takedown of RFK Jr.’s ignorant, dangerous rhetoric about autism is not only accurate, it is necessary. The disinformation spread by Kennedy and his cronies is not just pseudoscience, it is an assault on vulnerable families and on people with ASD themselves. Andrea Love is not only a gifted scientist and communicator, she is clearly an elite educator. This is what public health leadership should look like.
Dr. Love...as a person with ASD a, licensed psychotherapist and "weekend warrior" science nerd, I deeply appreciate your ability to translate this very true, very real information for the masses. I use your information constantly in discussions with people who are dosed with misinformation and disinformation.
People like me aren't diseased or broken...we're fun, quirky, unique...and...human!!
Keep up the fight for truth. I know I'm behind you 100%!
As an RDN who has worked with children with ASDs for, oh, about 40 years, I can tell you that virtually every developmental pediatrician I've ever worked with, every speech therapist, every psychologist and psychiatrist, has no use for RFK's vaccine theory, nor that eating a red M & M has anything to do with it either. Over 40 years, changing diagnostic criteria, better -- and earlier -- access to diagnosticians, and better therapies have much more to do with the "increase" in diagnosis. It's called advancement of science.
Still, RFK is now going to put together his "blue ribbon panel" to "get to the bottom" of what's causing autism. Perhaps they should check into the dead worm carcass in his brain to see if there's anything there that might be influencing his whacky attitudes and beliefs about health care. For someone with a law degree, his lack of critical thinking skills are astonishing. They could also be setting health care policy back about 50 years.
This is an outstanding and essential post. Dr. Andrea Love combines scientific rigor, clarity, and moral courage in a way few can. Her detailed takedown of RFK Jr.’s ignorant, dangerous rhetoric about autism is not only accurate, it is necessary. The disinformation spread by Kennedy and his cronies is not just pseudoscience, it is an assault on vulnerable families and on people with ASD themselves. Andrea Love is not only a gifted scientist and communicator, she is clearly an elite educator. This is what public health leadership should look like.
Dr. Love...as a person with ASD a, licensed psychotherapist and "weekend warrior" science nerd, I deeply appreciate your ability to translate this very true, very real information for the masses. I use your information constantly in discussions with people who are dosed with misinformation and disinformation.
People like me aren't diseased or broken...we're fun, quirky, unique...and...human!!
Keep up the fight for truth. I know I'm behind you 100%!
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As an RDN who has worked with children with ASDs for, oh, about 40 years, I can tell you that virtually every developmental pediatrician I've ever worked with, every speech therapist, every psychologist and psychiatrist, has no use for RFK's vaccine theory, nor that eating a red M & M has anything to do with it either. Over 40 years, changing diagnostic criteria, better -- and earlier -- access to diagnosticians, and better therapies have much more to do with the "increase" in diagnosis. It's called advancement of science.
Still, RFK is now going to put together his "blue ribbon panel" to "get to the bottom" of what's causing autism. Perhaps they should check into the dead worm carcass in his brain to see if there's anything there that might be influencing his whacky attitudes and beliefs about health care. For someone with a law degree, his lack of critical thinking skills are astonishing. They could also be setting health care policy back about 50 years.