(April 23, 2025 at 12:08 am)Jackalope Wrote:

(April 22, 2025 at 10:37 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Where can I read more about this?

Search "RFK wellness farms".  NYT etc report that he wants to do this for "drug addiction".  Digging further, RFK Jr seems to lump in people who take SSRIs for depression, stimulants for ADHD, etc

Thanks for the lead, found a couple of articles. While I don't see 300,000 executions arising from such proposals, it's obnoxious to freedom and civil liberties.

"Reparented"? That sounds a lot like the "reeducation camps" in China that even right-wingers revile, and rightly so. It also makes it seem that autism-spectrum disorders arise from upbringing.

My question is what we should do with people whose brains have been eaten by worms?

^ Direct injection of 50 cc of Ivermectin should suffice. It'll take care of both parasites.

(April 23, 2025 at 12:54 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(April 23, 2025 at 12:08 am)Jackalope Wrote: Search "RFK wellness farms".  NYT etc report that he wants to do this for "drug addiction".  Digging further, RFK Jr seems to lump in people who take SSRIs for depression, stimulants for ADHD, etc

Thanks for the lead, found a couple of articles. While I don't see 300,000 executions arising from such proposals, it's obnoxious to freedom and civil liberties.

"Reparented"? That sounds a lot like the "reeducation camps" in China that even right-wingers revile, and rightly so. It also makes it seem that autism-spectrum disorders arise from upbringing.

My question is what we should do with people whose brains have been eaten by worms?

That was actually kind of clever about Kennedy. Now, each he says something monumentally stupid, he can be all, ‘Don’t blame me. It’s brain worms.’

Boru

Senate Republican Ron Johnson wants to hold hearings on a 9/11 conspiracy theory

A day after the Wisconsin Republican went on a far-right podcast promoting conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a spokesperson for Johnson said the lawmaker is currently seeking information and documentation in order to hold hearings on the event nearly 25 years later.

He would do so in his capacity as chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, one of Congress’s most storied and powerful panels with far-reaching jurisdiction that gives its chair wide latitude to probe a diverse array of matters.

In a podcast interview Tuesday with MAGA personality Benny Johnson, Ron Johnson asserted that one of the buildings around the World Trade Center complex in New York was brought down via “a controlled demolition” in the aftermath of the collapse of the twin towers.

Citing a documentary that promoted these conspiracy theories about the attack, Ron Johnson went on to say the investigation into the collapse conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is part of the Department of Commerce, was “corrupted.”

“What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” he asked. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”

Ron Johnson, who also described the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as the subject of “a massive cover-up of exactly what happened,” acknowledged in his interview with Benny Johnson that he is considered “a conspiracy theorist.”

“But,” the Wisconsin senator added, “that’s how they keep things covered up.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22...y-00303156

^Can you say “distraction”? I knew you could.’ - Fred Rogers

Boru

(April 23, 2025 at 12:54 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: "Reparented"? That sounds a lot like the "reeducation camps" in China that even right-wingers revile, and rightly so. It also makes it seem that autism-spectrum disorders arise from upbringing.

Precisely. While parenting can certainly affect an autistic person's life experience, we know that it's primarily a function of genetics.

The best things we can do for autists are to eliminate stigmas and accommodate their special needs.

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(April 23, 2025 at 3:08 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(April 23, 2025 at 12:54 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: "Reparented"? That sounds a lot like the "reeducation camps" in China that even right-wingers revile, and rightly so. It also makes it seem that autism-spectrum disorders arise from upbringing.

Precisely.  While parenting can certainly affect an autistic person's life experience,  we know that it's primarily a function of genetics.

The best things we can do for autists are to eliminate stigmas and accommodate their special needs.

The ones jumping on the RFK Jr. bandwagon seem to forget a few things.  There are more people diagnosed with autism because we know more about it....I can look back to my school days and know there were classmates that would have been on the spectrum if the spectrum was a thing back then.

Not all that different from the rise in cancer diagnosis since we know more and test sooner and the tests are better.

It's not so much there are more people with certain things but rather that we now have names for and look for certain things.

(April 27, 2025 at 12:01 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(April 23, 2025 at 3:08 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Precisely.  While parenting can certainly affect an autistic person's life experience,  we know that it's primarily a function of genetics.

The best things we can do for autists are to eliminate stigmas and accommodate their special needs.

The ones jumping on the RFK Jr. bandwagon seem to forget a few things.  There are more people diagnosed with autism because we know more about it....I can look back to my school days and know there were classmates that would have been on the spectrum if the spectrum was a thing back then.

Not all that different from the rise in cancer diagnosis since we know more and test sooner and the tests are better.

It's not so much there are more people with certain things but rather that we now have names for and look for certain things.

Kennedy is so rationality-impaired, it’s a safe bet that, when the autism registry is complete, he’ll say, ‘Look! 99% of these autistic people have been vaccinated. Therefore, we have proven that vaccines cause autism.’

Boru