{"id":15935,"date":"2025-09-23T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=15935"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:44:44","slug":"amerikas-rueckfall-ins-mittelalter-wie-das-weisse-haus-autismus-zur-buehne-fuer-aberglauben-macht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/amerikas-rueckfall-ins-mittelalter-wie-das-weisse-haus-autismus-zur-buehne-fuer-aberglauben-macht\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Relapse into the Middle Ages - How the White House Turns Autism into a Stage for Superstition"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a document that one has to read twice to realize that it is not a joke. Under the White House letterhead, an \u201cAutism Action Plan\u201d is presented that resembles a medieval indulgence trade more than modern science. Acetaminophen, known in the rest of the world as paracetamol, is suddenly stylized as a danger to the unborn child. Vague phrases about \u201cpossible associations\u201d between painkillers during pregnancy and neurological damage are presented as if the connection were already proven. One senses the hand of those forces that turn uncertainty into a weapon - and forge a political dogma out of statistical coincidences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But it does not stop with this warning. In a mixture of cynicism and political despair, leucovorin, a folic acid derivative known for decades, is suddenly declared the first \u201crecognized therapy\u201d against autism. The logic is grotesque: because there are rare metabolic disorders in which leucovorin can help, it is now supposed to work against autism on a broad scale. That autism is a complex neurobiological spectrum that cannot be reduced to vitamin pills does not matter. What matters is only the headline: \u201cThe first drug against autism.\u201d Staging triumphs over reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This spectacle is crowned by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, who in a speech with the US president behind him declares that 40 to 70 percent of mothers of autistic children believe their children were harmed by vaccines. One has to let this sentence sink in: of all places, the White House elevates subjective beliefs to political truth. Science is replaced by majority belief in a survey, evidence by perceived percentages. President Trump, according to Kennedy, wants to \u201clisten\u201d to these mothers instead of \u201cgaslighting them like previous administrations.\u201d A quote that shows how far the administration is willing to go: the state is no longer to protect, it is to affirm - even if by doing so it legitimizes dangerous myths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n