; Trump touts Amish; more
Trump teases Amish health rates in Governors’ meeting.
The far-left New Republic published an unintentionally encouraging story this weekend headlined, “
Trump’s Latest Health Care Claim Will Make Your Head Spin. It was the usual gibberish quibbling with the President’s quoted statistics (without refuting them). The important thing is, at last week’s National Governors’ Conference, President Trump riffed about the remarkable absence of
autism among the Amish.
That reference should be encouraging news for people fretting that Trump is soft on vaccines. Nobody in their right mind who is pro-pharma would mention the Amish, not even to argue about the claims.
“The Pennsylvania Dutch, they don’t do anything, and they’re amazingly healthy,” Trump said, after talking about the explosion of pediatric autism in the United States.
The op-ed’s author slammed Trump for claiming that there was
no autism fifteen years ago (Trump said, “like, no autism”), but confirmed he was right that the rates have dramatically increased to an astonishing and alarming 1 in 34. The author did his best to discredit the Amish finding by citing “studies,” but if you look up the one cited study, even
that study allowed the Amish autism rate was only 1 in 271 (2010).
So … Trump was right. He was right even using
their numbers, never mind the slew of favorable independent studies he
could have cited. The simple fact is: there is a massive statistical difference between autism rates in Amish communities and the rest of America— even by the woke New Republic’s best counter-study. It’s a mystery dying to be solved. Maybe it’s the horses and buggies, the raw milk, or the super suspicious
stable-raising parties?
Another mystery dying to be solved is the riddle of how, exactly, progressivism agreed to marry big medicine. Was it because they love technology and expertise that much? Maybe future historians can unravel how progressivism evolved from raging against Big Pharma to lovingly drip-feeding it billions in taxpayer-funded grants.
In any case, Trump’s offhand remark detonated like a rogue Oreshnik missile in a Pfizer factory. Right now, pharma boards are convening emergency meetings to frantically discuss the problem of
Donald J. Trump. Probably in Kiev. Trump’s team is preparing to defrost the science of shot injuries. The kindling under the altar of vaccine orthodoxy is about to catch fire.
Blowback.
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