RFK Jr’s flawed approach to science and autism is dangerous

In March of this year, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy JR made a brave and obviously ugly claim. Determine the cause of autism until September. And so, following the script, we received the statement of President Donald Trump’s RFK JR this week. “I found the answer to autism”.

Finding the answer, it turns out to define the prenatal use of acetaminofen called paracetamol in Tylenol and other countries in the USA. This “finding” was accompanied by advice on pregnant women in the USA. Avoid getting this painkiller during pregnancy.

So, how did RFK JR have achieved what dedicated researchers could not do for decades in six months? The proposal put forward by the US Health Secretary in March was essentially the “causes ın of autism, which had already escaped from all experts if he had accessed all relevant data and only analyzed all the relevant data.

Always an extremely simple narrative was a narrative that could not reflect the scattered and repetitive nature of the arrogant and scientific progress as well as delusional. And in terms of “finding the answer ,, it should not be surprising that the announcement of RFK JR is a complete mistake.

This claim of Acetaminofen’s role to cause autism, and ultimately advice to pregnant women have blind directed experts and have been criticized universally. The evidence does not simply support. Some studies support a weak relationship between acetaminophen and autism, but More robust work Do not show such a relationship.

In addition, the existence of a relationship does not necessarily have a causal relationship. There may be uncomfortable details that there is no evidence for the exact body of the evidence and that there is no evidence for a causal relationship, and that it chooses to ignore it for RFK JR – but these are important.

The US Health Secretary’s idea of ​​promising the gold standard science seems to review the existing evidence and reinterpret it in a way that complies with a predetermined narrative. We find ourselves, not for the first time, but in the United States to inform the irresponsible health policy to inform the decision of the bad science.

Science is searching for reality and evidence and evidence and only evidence and quantity and quality item. Strong evidence has more weight than weak evidence. Fabrication evidence does not carry weight. As scientists, when the evidence changes, his views change. And before a very idealist, scientists try to be objective and are not guided by pre -designed beliefs.

RFK JR is a lawyer and follows a different paradigm. The job of a lawyer is not necessarily to reveal the truth, but to create the most powerful argument to discuss a case. This means starting with a result and bringing together the arguments that are seen to support it later. Introducing the findings miscarriage is seen as legitimate tools in the “competition” to the experts who refer to cherry collection data and selectively. For a lawyer, the measure of success is not accuracy, but the persuasion. This is the antithesis of the world and scientific method in which RFK JR operates.

For those who are attractive to reject this as a US problem, look at the media Taken in AustraliaAnd the response from the Australian researchers, the therapeutic goods administration and the federal government to assure the public that there is no reliable evidence that autism is a reason for taking this medicine.

However, the liking or likes, the decisions taken in the United States have extensive echoes, and this statement has increased the worldwide confusion and uncertainty. Scare people from a drug that helps to relax fever and pain without any reason, will potentially cause fever to be treated in pregnancy. Alternatively, women can consult other drugs with higher risks of negative results.

In a significant way, the driver of all this exercise can withstand a wrong proposition. Among the experts, there is a general agreement that a greater awareness about autism and changing diagnostic criteria is the main driving forces of the increase in diagnoses and that there is no “cigarette weapon” exposure. RFK Jr claims.

The truth is that autism is a complex neurotic state. No gene, exposure or event will explain all cases. Pathophysiology has nuances, complex and multi -factor and contains almost certainly the interaction of many factors. Finding the “reason” is not a printing exercise.

But RFK JR rejects it. He claims that he knows better – and he ignores the increasing awareness because he plays an ideological role in increasing diagnoses. In other words, he believes that all experts have an agenda and prefers to blame cases of autism in increasing awareness than to find “real” reasons.

While the US health secretary is ideologically guiding autism experts, he blames the fact that his actions and views are almost ideologically motivated. There is no more clear example of this hypocrisy than the obsession of influencing MMR vaccine as a reason for autism, despite the overwhelming evidence of this hypocrisy. One of the main concerns of experts is that this announcement allows RFK JR to continue to maintain this false narrative connecting MMR vaccine and autism.

Trump from time to time weird comments about yesterday’s vaccines press conference Increase the fear of the Foundation of the RFK JR’s foundation, including vaccines, the fear that we see because it played an important role in autism in the coming months and years.

In the coming weeks, undoubtedly, something will double this claim in the face of overwhelming criticism. This can be expected to rely on familiar tactics to hide ignorance and prejudice and deceive the public.