A brief history of circumcision and autism

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• 2400 BCE: Ancient Egyptians and Sumerians are performing circumcisions while building pyramids, inventing beer, and debating whether cats are divine.

• Over the next few millennia: Circumcision spreads across cultures—while people are inventing the wheel, chasing llamas, and painting cave walls.

• 1943 CE: Leo Kanner finally notices autism.

[RockRaven]

1. Yes, but you see, the peepee is connected to the brain, and

that's just science.

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2. Right? 😂

[LearnedHand]

3. So why are some girls autistic?

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6. Well hell I hadn't thought of that. 😂

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9. They must be trans?

That's reserved for RFK Jr's presidential campaign platform. It's caused by moonbeam exposure before kindergarten.

[Deuxcents]

4. Two remarkably stupid men making ignorant statements about which they know nothing about

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5. If you developed your brain properly, by eating roadkill, you would understand.

I can't explain it to all you people with underdeveloped brains.

Put some baby chicks and mice in a blender, feed that to some hawks. Watch and learn.

Only then will you understand.

[Hekate]

7. Thank you for that much needed chuckle

There’s a long, long list of tribes that think infant male circumcision is a sign they’ve fulfilled their gods’ commandment, or more commonly male circumcision at puberty as a passage into manhood.

The infants don’t remember the event, but the pubescent boys certainly do, and they make sure to pass it along to their own sons.

[Grins]

8. How did those autistic Jews build those pyramids????

People are asking…

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10. Peter Hotez: RFK Jr.'s take on autism is 'increasingly untethered to reality'

Hotez is the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, and he co-directs the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. His many books include “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science” and the new “Science Under Siege,” which he co-wrote with Michael E. Mann.

“He picks things that seem designed to get clicks on the internet. He gravitates toward magical-seeming, spectacular explanations like Tylenol and circumcision,” said Peter Hotez. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

— Gary Schwitzer (@garyschw.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T12:18:08.319Z

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/hotez-autism-circumcision-rfk-21093425.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

In a White House Cabinet meeting Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that boys who are circumcised are twice as likely to be diagnosed later with autism. Kennedy speculated that maybe it’s because circumcised boys are given Tylenol for pain.

"That’s absurd,” said vaccine scientist and author Peter Hotez, who has long disagreed with Kennedy’s pronouncements about the causes of autism.

“His statements are increasingly untethered to reality,” Hotez said Friday. “It’s actually worrisome that he’d pick circumcision as a factor to highlight.”......

Hotez is frustrated:

“One, he still doesn’t acknowledge the role that genes play in autism.

“Two, he doesn’t acknowledge actual, well documented environmental factors. Lots of studies find weak associations for all sorts of things. But the evidence for some environmental factors, like Valproic, is much, much stronger.

“And three, he picks things that seem designed to get clicks on the internet. He gravitates toward magical-seeming, spectacular explanations like Tylenol and circumcision.