Of all the pressing issues in America—skyrocketing costs of living, food and housing insecurity, failing healthcare, environmental crises—they decide the creation of a Make America Healthy Again Commission is the priority? And not even in a way that would genuinely help autistic people, but by dredging up the same tired, debunked nonsense that has already wasted decades of research funding.
The gall of calling it the Make America Healthy Again Commission while ignoring the very things making America unhealthy—corporate greed, pollution, food deserts, medical bankruptcy, and systemic inequality—is just dystopian. Kids don’t need another round of bad-faith “what causes autism” speculation. They need food. They need stable homes. They need clean air and water. They need functioning healthcare that isn’t driven by conspiracy theorists pushing their personal agendas.
And RFK Jr. at the helm? That’s like putting a flat-earther in charge of NASA. The man has built his career on undermining public health, and now he’s supposed to be leading it? Even McConnell—Mitch McConnell, of all people—couldn’t stomach it. That alone should tell you how absurd this is.
If they really wanted to “investigate the root causes of America’s escalating health crisis,” they could start by looking at the gutting of social safety nets, the commodification of healthcare, and the exploitation of workers. But no, let’s just “study” autism again while people struggle to pay rent and put food on the table. Absolutely infuriating.
