Why is this 70 year old guy so obsessed with something he knows nothing about? Why name Tylenol the “cause” of autism when he obviously wants to say its vaccines?
I get that the underlying goal of MAHA is eugenics, but I just don’t get why or this angle. I haven’t come across much really talking about it. Everything is focused on the fact that its obviously ridiculous that Tylenol (or anything) causes autism, but what is the obession with finding this nonexistent cause?
A lot of the attitude underpinning the anti-vax movement is this defense of the way things used to be done. You see these “my mom got three shots as a kid, I got five, so why is my daughter/granddaughter getting 35?” posts all the time from them. I think it’s especially strong in the 60+ contingent as they’re seeing a world in general that’s drastically changed from when they were young and there’s an anxiety that the way they did things will be viewed by history as the primitive, regressive ways that were right to be let go. Thus they’re protecting their legacy.
With that in mind, I think it’s important to note that RFK jr’s aunt Rose had developmental disabilities and the family’s “solution” was to lobotomize her and stick her in a home for the rest of her life where they didn’t visit her. So yeah, there’s the eugenics on the macro level, but for RFK jr personally, I think it’s a defense of the way his family handled mental health issues and kept them from being a “problem.”