Dr Peter Marks, forced to resign by Trump administration, sees no ‘possible way’ to determine cause by September
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, should not offer “false hope” to families by boasting he can figure out what causes autism as soon as September, says the physician who resigned as the nation’s top vaccine official amid what he called anti-vaccination misinformation from the Trump administration cabinet member.
In an interview during which he alluded to his help helming Operation Warp Speed – the initiative that took only about nine months to develop, manufacture and distribute the vaccines protecting the public from Covid-19 – Dr Peter Marks warned that autism “is an incredibly complicated issue”.
“If you just ask me, as a scientist, is it possible to get the answer that quickly? I don’t see any possible way,” Marks said on CBS’s Face the Nation in a pre-recorded discussion airing Sunday.
I mean, parts of being autistic can suck but ffs it’s not a death sentence.
So sick and tired of the eugenicist POS narrative that it’s this horrible defect and not predominantly just a heritable neurotype that’s part of the normal variance of human existence. Unfortunately capitalist, and especially US society is built to punish difference but that doesn’t make us the problem.