trump seemed to have a lot of interest in the jfk shooting, which everybody knows was ordered by lyndon johnson.

i've been trying to figure out why they went after kimmel with such bluntness, and why people listened, and it appears to be because he got too close to suggesting it was an inside job. i don't think kimmel said that, or meant to say that, or accidentally implied that. he just got too close to it.

it's not clear to me why trump would be so interested in this guy. i legitimately had never heard of him. he doesn't seem to have been much more than a popular internet troll, with a collection of terrible opinions.

my best guess is that this was a psy-op of some kind, and that's why we're seeing what we're seeing. trump wanted a maga martyr for future generatons, like jfk. this is the guy they picked.

you're not supposed to say that. at all, ever, no matter what, and if you try to with any kind of an audience, you're going to get a knock on your door.

birth defects are necessary and healthy, from a population genetics perspective.

if we got rid of all of the birth defects, we'd stagnate, we'd stop evolving. you don't want that.

if you want to be an autism advocate, there's two ways to do this:

1) the most humane choice in many cases is abortion.

2) in cases where the autistic child is not so retarded as to be able to live a life, they need lifelong support, and state resources to provide it to them.

it may be possible in the near future to determine if a gestating child is autistic via a dna test. it would not be conclusive today, but you could catch a lot of it. that research should be funded.

autism is a genetic disorder in the child's genome, as determined by defective sperm and/or ova.

it is not caused by environmental factors during development, and there is no way to cure or prevent it once the sperm fertilizes the egg.

the genetic mutations that cause autism don't happen during development in the womb, they are already present at conception. rather, the existence of the mutations before development starts guide the development of the foetus to a defective outcome. that is the correct language - autism is a birth defect.

birth defects are not all bad. some birth defects are beneficial; that is how evolution works. autism is not likely to be an evolutionarily beneficial birth defect.

while some evidence may exist that tylenol use generates epigenetic expression in developing foetuses, although i'm skeptical of this, this could not be the cause of the autism, as the autism is in the child's genome and already exists at that stage in development. this is the mistake that the christian right and other pseudoscientific doofuses can't get their heads around. how could their god make autistic children? they must have some disease that can be cured, in order to allow god's creation to exist as intended.

this shouldn't need to be debunked in 2025.

if you insist on maintaining the mental illness of faith in god deep into the 21st century, you're going to have to face the fact that god made the kid autistic.

i haven't seen any research suggesting that tylenol use may create the defective sperms or ova that produce defective embryos that lead to the birth defect that is autistic children. it's possible. i doubt it.

there is very good research tying this birth defect to air pollution, specifically from car exhaust and from smoking cigarettes and marijuana.