The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human difference<\/p>\n
In the recent past, Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that Donald Trump is \u201ca terrible human being\u201d and \u201cprobably a sociopath<\/a>\u201d. But in the US\u2019s new age of irrationalism and chaos, these two men are now of one voice, pursuing a strand of Trumpist politics that sometimes feels strangely overlooked. With Trump once again in the White House and Kennedy ensconced as his health and human services secretary, what they are jointly leading is becoming clearer by the day: a war on science and knowledge that aims to replace them with the modern superstitions of conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n Nearly 2,000 members of the US\u2019s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have warned<\/a> of \u201cslashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories, and hampering international scientific collaboration\u201d. Even work on cancer is now under threat<\/a>. But if you want to really understand the Trump regime\u2019s monstrousness, consider where Kennedy and a gang of acolytes<\/a> are heading on an issue that goes to the heart of millions of lives: autism.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human difference In the recent past, Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that Donald Trump is \u201ca terrible human being\u201d and \u201cprobably a sociopath\u201d. But in the US\u2019s new age of irrationalism and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}