In remarks laced with scientific inaccuracies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while directly contradicting researchers within his own agency on a primary driver behind rising rates of the condition in young children.

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    23 days ago

    There is a way to prevent having a child with Autism and it’s absolutely fool proof. Just don’t have kids. Boom, you’ve prevented a kid from having Autism.

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      That’s the poor man’s solution. If you’re rich and famous like Elon Musk, you can IVF away the undesirable traits like neurodiverge or the presence of an X chromosome where there must be a Y instead /s