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Organic Food Causes Autism (RFK Statistics)

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by ncargat1, Apr 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM.

  1. ncargat1

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    I saw this on Twitter and I thought it was outstanding. A perfect misuse of superficial statistics that has become the basis of RFK's attempt to ban vaccines to his "organization" can sell literal snake-oil to people to cure everything from viral infection to genetic fracture to cancer.

     
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  2. RIP

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    I could overlay my bodyweight against that chart and reasonably argue that when I eat too much, the nation gets autism. I was 9 in 1990.
     
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    FAKE NEWS.
     
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  4. ncargat1

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    New data in showing Autism is caused by eating cheese!!!

     
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    Financial experts, only slightly less qualified than RFK Jr have determined Autism is caused by inflation!!

     
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  6. AgingGator

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    A new one for the lefties; ncargat1 has created his own circle jerk!
     
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  7. ncargat1

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    Just trying to find graphs simple enough for righties to comprehend....and that is not easy. It takes a lot of effort to power down the brain low enough to get on that level.
     
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  8. AgingGator

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    Oh, and now the old “righties are too dumb to comprehend my nonsense”.

    So predictable. Enjoy your solo jerk!
     
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  9. slocala

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    Did RFK say this or is this attributable to Steve Kirsch?
     
  10. duggers_dad

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    There are 114 possible causes for autism, none of which can be vaccines because safe and effective.
     
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    Graph also proves that Autistic people must like to eat Organic food, right?
     
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    Never mind what RFK Jr thinks, how would you folks explain the apparent explosion of autism rates ?
     
  13. vaxcardinal

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    just like COVID, more testing results in more positive results ;)
     
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    You mean you can create a pandemic for anything with a test ? Who knew ?
     
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    He’s just making a point about “spurious correlations”, which is what RFK peddles. The classic one every one learns in introductory statistics is the “correlation” between shark attacks and iced cream consumption. Surely as an engineer you must have known these concepts at one point in your life, so I’m not sure why you’d consider them nonsensical.
     
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    After resting their full weight on correlations since 2020, all of a sudden liberals hate them.
     
  17. AgingGator

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    As an engineer you quickly recognize logic and quickly reject nonsense. “Spurious correlations” are nonsense and should be treated as such in any meaningful debate among serious people. RFK asks many good questions and he considers all information. Much of what I have seen is him citing examples of documentation that may or may not be conclusive, but should be considered along with all other studies. Since he is a public figure and now politician, the media immediately goes to their “all or nothing” scale to disregard whatever does not fit the narrative.

    In short, I don’t want the consort of the media and the politicians determining causation of medical issues. RFK brings many good questions WRT to unexplained increases of conditions that we considered very rare 30-40 years ago. Those are good questions to ask. But if they get to close to peaking behind the curtain of the Healthcare Money Press than the questioner must be destroyed immediately. Far too often as a society we allow our minds to be made up for us by media. I don’t know about today but in my day at UF the College of Journalism wasn’t exactly a think tank.

    Autism, mental illness, dyslexia and other afflictions have been on the rise for quite some time. Let’s look at all the information and find the common denominators and start researching there. Let’s not let the least credible among us (media, politicians, and ambulance chasers) proclaim right from wrong and fact from fiction.
     
  18. Emmitto

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    Riiiiiiight.

    Except RFK meets none of this criteria. He is neither a doctor nor a researcher (least credible) and uses the exact same debunked propaganda produced by the National Vaccine Information Center, the front name for a rabid anti-vax group. He always goes back to that single source after implying there is more than one. Why not produce all these "studies", plural, if they exist? Or how about at least finding one that wasn't blown out of the water immediately? Or one that isn't by the industry that has a vested interest in anti-vaxing? And why not include the hundreds that do that don't support his personal passion?

    "Start researching autism" is the same thing RFKj says after he delivers a ludicrous anti-vax tirade. Except autism has been researched for decades now. And these simple things that RFKj and others are so desperate to be the culprit have been part of that research all along. It just simply isn't what they want it to be, so they'll just say it is anyway, and then try to couch it with these scienc-y endcaps.
     
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  19. AgingGator

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    Obviously you only watch edited videos of his statements
     
  20. docspor

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    if you aren't part of the circle jerk, you're the cracker.