{"id":40456,"date":"2025-05-02T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/laughable-if-it-werent-so-dangerous-your-responses-to-rfk-jrs-autism-stance\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:09:30","slug":"laughable-if-it-werent-so-dangerous-your-responses-to-rfk-jrs-autism-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/laughable-if-it-werent-so-dangerous-your-responses-to-rfk-jrs-autism-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Laughable, if it weren\u2019t so dangerous\u2019: your responses to RFK Jr\u2019s autism stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the US health secretary called for autistic people to be tracked, readers rebuked the idea that ASD is a tragedy<\/p>\n<p>When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/22\/rfk-jr-autism-nih\">project<\/a> to track the health of people with autism, autistic people and their friends and families reacted with shock and anger.<\/p>\n<p>They also expressed dismay and concern over the US health secretary\u2019s incorrect and \u201cweird\u201d approach to autism spectrum disorder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/02\/rjk-jr-autism-guardian-readers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the US health secretary called for autistic people to be tracked, readers rebuked the idea that ASD is a tragedy When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced a major project to track the health of people with autism, autistic people and their friends and families reacted with shock and anger. They also expressed dismay and &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Laughable, if it weren\u2019t so dangerous\u2019: your responses to RFK Jr\u2019s autism stance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/laughable-if-it-werent-so-dangerous-your-responses-to-rfk-jrs-autism-stance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Laughable, if it weren\u2019t so dangerous\u2019: your responses to RFK Jr\u2019s autism stance\">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-40456","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\/40456","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=40456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}