In remarks laced with scientific inaccuracies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while directly contradicting researchers within his own agency on a primary driver behind rising rates of the condition in young children.
Yes, the type of crap that RFK jr is pulling is classic denialist bullshit.
If you’ve debated any of the various denialist dumbasses on various topics, you’ll see it over and over and over again. Doesn’t matter if they are evolution deniers, vaccine deniers, HIV deniers, moon landing deniers, Holocaust deniers, they all use the same exact set of dishonest tactics - the Gish Gallop, the “just asking questions” trope, the “teach the controversy” stuff, and it all comes with lots and lots of logical fallacies.
Most all of them never learn a fucking thing, never apologize for their inherent dishonesty and certainly never change. You’ll point out how what they said was bullshit on one day and within hours/days, they’ll be back again, doing almost the exact same thing. Many of them are too stupid to know how much they are owned by others in online forums; some others are just fully aware, but they just don’t care because the immorality that goes along with lying at that level runs so very deep.