CDC officials’ resignation emails

Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by CamperBob2 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:09PM (#45047555)

The good news, at least, is that next week there's a chance we'll finally get to the bottom of the whole autism thing! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-claims-we-...

Seriously. If you voted for this, you owe civilization a debt that you will probably never be wealthy enough or long-lived enough to repay.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by enjeyw on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:20PM (#45047620)

I have no reasonable theory as to how Trump/RFK will be able to reveal credible information about Autism that wasn’t already available from public research papers.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by adastra22 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:22PM (#45047632)

I believe he was being sarcastic, although tone is hard to read online.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by enjeyw on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:27PM (#45047649)

Yeah on re-read I think you’re right. Though who knows in this day and age!

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by dataflow on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:22PM (#45047630)

If it's not credible, at least it will be incredible.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by CamperBob2 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:21PM (#45047624)

You don't say.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by enjeyw on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:27PM (#45047654)

My bad; Missed the sarcasm!

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by Deuter8 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:32PM (#45047683)

The irony. How many vaccines have you had tonight, sir?

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by pplante on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:14PM (#45047584)

As an autistic person with 3 kids with ASD, I get triggered by this bullshit nearly daily. I sincerely hope that whatever "reveal" they have planned does not further harm our ability to access the early interventions that my kids are benefiting from.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by ants_everywhere on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:25PM (#45047640)

It will be nothing. He has already made it clear he doesn't even know what autism is.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by CamperBob2 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:29PM (#45047670)

He doesn't know what tariffs are, either, but did that stop him?

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by ants_everywhere on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:33PM (#45047688)

RFK I meant. From comments he's made it's clear he thinks autism refers to being nonverbal or similar.

But sure yes I'm sure Trump doesn't the understand it either.Heck tons of practicing therapists don't even understand it.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by Insanity on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:19PM (#45047996)

Not to be pessimistic, but I’m pretty sure that whatever they do will do more harm than good, given how much of a hot mess the current administration is.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by morkalork on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:35PM (#45048103)

Welp, better hope they don't decide it's a heritable condition that can only be solved via sterilization programs! Because that has absolutely happened before in North America.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by crooked-v on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:36PM (#45047711)

I think it's more likely that it will be used as an excuse to actively harm and oppress autistic people and anyone else they can use pseudoscience to try to label as 'damaged' or 'unnatural', rather than merely taking away existing aid.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by ornornor on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:56AM (#45048900)

It’s hard to believe how much closer to Idiocracy the US is getting every day. I love how they quoted what RFK and Trump have said in the article to show how devoid of any substance any of that is.

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by bignurgle on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:26AM (#45052578)

probably shouldn't have pushed equally retarded rhetoric leading up to his most recent election. no ones hands are clean of this state we're in, as much as people would love for it to be one side's fault. everyone needs to do better, but its easier to just say "people are stupid"

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Re:CDC officials’ resignation emails by CamperBob2 on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:41AM (#45053604)

probably shouldn't have pushed equally retarded rhetoric leading up to his most recent election.

Really? About the only comparable example I can think of was the Democrats' assurance that Biden was still fit to serve. Sure, they should have ditched him much earlier -- that much seems obvious -- but what "equally retarded rhetoric" can you stack up against "They're eating the dogs?"

A voter could justify an assumption that Biden was still a viable candidate simply because they hadn't been told otherwise by those in a position to know. But you actually had to be stupid to fall for "They're eating the dogs," along with countless other Trump lies backed by zero evidence.

It was a simple exercise in pattern recognition. No one who failed that exercise in 2024 should be allowed to vote in 2028. But of course, we have Trump's word that the matter is moot, given that voting won't be necessary.

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