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.
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.
Financial experts, only slightly less qualified than RFK Jr have determined Autism is caused by inflation!!
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.
Oh, and now the old “righties are too dumb to comprehend my nonsense”. So predictable. Enjoy your solo jerk!
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.
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.
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.
