dumbest doofus ever is gonna cure all the autisms
welcome to the wonderful world of superstition-based medicine
hello to everyone who is reading this because they didn’t get raptured today. better luck next time! and now, on with today’s post.
he’s so fucking stupid that he thinks magnets stop working if they get wet. he’s so fucking stupid that he thinks exercise is bad for you. he’s so fucking stupid he thinks windmills give you noise cancer.
he’s so fucking stupid that you don’t even have to use his name — all you have to say is ‘he’s so fucking stupid’ and everyone immediately knows who you’re talking about.
and now this idiot is basing America’s healthcare policy on his feelings.
“the MMR, I think, should be taken separately. this is based on what I feel.”
sure, why not?
I guess they were right to gut the CDC and send everyone packing. after all, who needs an entire government entity devoted to medical research when Dear Leader has feelings?
here’s a pro tip: don’t take medical advice from the guy who told you that injecting bleach and guzzling horse paste cures covid.
but that ‘feelings’ clip up there was just a sideshow to the main event.
‘controversial’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline, because — despite there being absolutely no medical evidence to make the case — Donny stood up in front of the world and announced that if you’re preggers, and you take Tylenol while you have a bun in the oven, that bun is going to slide out with a bad case of the autisms.
who discovered this earth-shattering fact? was it a scientist, or a researcher? no, it wasn’t — unless you consider ‘hey, what would happen if I chainsawed the head off this whale and tied it to my car’ to be research. that’s right, it was Bobby Brainworms, Jr. — the crackpot who single-handedly brought measles to Samoa.
take another look at the photo from the top of this post. it’s a trifecta of dumbfuck. it’s the Three Stooges of Science.
on the left, the guy who knows more about dead bear cub kidnapping than all the dead bear cub kidnappers. on the right, the fake-diet-pill flim-flam man. and at the podium, Mister Let’s Drink Bleach. just who you want in charge of making sure that people don’t, y’know, fucking die of preventable diseases. this is the lack-of-a-braintrust who decided that headache pills cause autism, because reasons.
you might as well blame autism on witchcraft, because there’s just as much evidence for that as Tylenol.
‘Constance Goodwyfe looked at me funny and I gave birth to a rabbit — and the rabbit had an autism.’
that’s where we are now in America in the year of our lord 2025: superstition-based medicine.
it’s all so stupid.
I can’t tell you just how fucking reckless this is, but you know who can? an actual doctor.
My inbox is already lighting up. Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the division of medical ethics at N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine, wrote: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science.”
dammit, Donny, look what you did. you forced the New York Times to commit an actual journalism.
President Trump urged pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol, claiming that there was a link between rising autism rates and painkillers with acetaminophen, contradicting decades of research that says otherwise.
having to admit all that must have ruined nepo-publisher AG Sulzburger’s entire day.
wait, here’s another actual doctor to lay some real facts on us. Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an expert in drug safety epidemiology, and here’s what he has to say about this imaginary link between autism and acetaminophen.
trigger warning: big words ahead.
“TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, but once you adjust for family by matching using sibling controls (who didn’t get autism), the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%. (Fun fact: I used to do drug safety epidemiology and have been whistleblower against big pharma when their drugs were dangerous—so I know a few things about drug safety data).”
Eric’s got a whole thread where he lays out all the studies and statistics here, if you just love the shit out of science and can’t get enough of it.
now, maybe it’s just me, but I think if you’re going to blither ignorantly about acetaminophen, you should at least be able to get the word out of your rancid anus-mouth.
“effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that the use of ascedof— well, let’s see how we say that. ascenem— men-o-phin. acetaminophen. is that okay?”
no, mister president, it’s pronounced ‘vitameatavegamin.’
you know what other superstitious fuckwits shitcanned their scientists, don’t you? of course you do.
wait, were you going say the Nazis? bzzzt, wrong answer!
NO, THIS TIME IT WASN’T THE NAZIS. the Nazis fucking loved science. they ran circles around us in the rocket department. that’s why we went scientist-shopping after World War Two. the big-brains who ran our space program — dudes like Werner von Braun — were airlifted straight out of Germany and given jobs in America. all the Nazi shit they did was quietly swept right under the rug.
the nation that set itself backward for an entire generation by denying science was the good old Soviet Russkies. Uncle Joe Stalin fucking hated scientists, because they harshed his I-know-better-than-you mellow.
there’s a whole Wikipedia page called “Repression of Science in the Soviet Union,” if you care to fall down that rabbit hole, but here’s the meat of it.
Many fields of scientific research in the Soviet Union were banned or suppressed with various justifications. All humanities and social sciences were tested for strict accordance with dialectical materialism. These tests served as a cover for political suppression of scientists who engaged in research labeled as “idealistic” or “bourgeois.” Many scientists were fired, others were arrested and sent to Gulags. The suppression of scientific research began during the Stalin era and continued after his death.
so let’s see where we are on the Is Your Government As Stupid As The Soviets checklist.
science suppressed in favor of ideology? check.
scientists fired? check.
scientists disappeared into gulags? not yet, but it ain’t for lack of trying.
this is, as always, all so fucking stupid.
but that’s what happens to a country when it’s run by a dolt who imagines he’s the smartest guy in the room. one who ignores expert advice and makes decisions based on what the barking noises in his head are telling him.
George W. Bush used to call himself the decider — but Bush was a piker compared to Donny, who makes his decisions just by looking.
Donny can look at a blurry satellite photo of a boat and decide it’s got drugs on it. he can look at a Fox News dunk-tank clown and decide that’s who should lead the military. and now he’s setting American medical science back at least a generation, because he can just look at a pill and decide it causes autism.
what could go wrong?
let’s go out on some good news. Jimmy Kimmel’s back!
Jimmy Kimmel is coming back.
ABC said on Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return to its airwaves on Tuesday, ending an impasse that began last week.
Disney backed down, because they were losing shitloads of money from their decision to bow down to fascism — and Fox News is having a big sad over it.
A new study from Media Research Center’s NewsBusters shows that "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" had a strong liberal bias, with conservatives bearing the brunt of 92% of the late-night host’s political jokes while Democrats were largely spared.
boo fucking hoo, Fox. now do an analysis of Greg Gutfeld and found object Jesse Watters, and then get back to me about ‘overwhelming bias.’
Jimmy Kimmel back and Fox News sad — two good things in one day. that’s better than any rapture.
here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
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I live on Tylenol. Don't get between me and my meds! In case you missed it, the Rapture is supposed to happen today. TODAY. I'm thinking about arranging clothing in the park to look like someone was sucked up into the clouds. Maybe a few outfits to indicate a group. Sorry, idiots. Gonna be a heartache tonight. Btw, I wrote a book on American snake oil, and I've had email exchanges with Dr. Paul Offitt, the leading expert on vaccines. The connection between vaccines and autism has been disproven in double blind study after study. It's a stupid, fucking myth and it's hurting people. RFKjr needs a case of flesh-eating bacteria to take care of the worm in his brain.
For anyone who thinks the Democrats are on our side in this case (as well as every other case), I would like to point out that, indeed, they are not. Well, not all of them in unity, as you would expect.
95 Democrats voted to HONOR Charlie Kirk.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-democratic-spineless-fear-makes
Also Uncle Jeff as an Autistic person who's mother NEVER took Tylenol (I grew up in Europe), I can attest that RFK Jr. is indeed a fucking liar.