A big date has arrived. Those of us who have been following pseudoscience for some time will remember that way back in 2014, MIT computer scientist and American Loon #2234 Dr. Stephanie Seneff, predicted that “half of all children will be autistic by 2025.” The culprit, in her opinion, would be glyphosate, an herbicide initially manufactured by Monsanto for genetically engineered crops. As you can imagine, an MIT scientist using the buzzwords autism, Monsanto, and GMOs made quite the splash in the wooisphere back then. It was very big deal at the time.
Well, 2025 is over, and we can now check in with Dr. Seneff’s prediction. Brace yourself. It turns out that no, glyphosate did not turn half of all children autistic.
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Predictably, instead of reflecting, apologizing, and retreating from public commentary as someone with integrity would do, Dr. Seneff has seamlessly moved on to claiming that vaccines will cause 50% of children and 80% of boys to be autistic by 2032. It’s always onwards to the next thing.
And though I never put it into writing, I can now reveal a failed prediction of mine- I honestly thought more people, especially “leaders” of American medicine, would have cared about all this. Instead, they ignored or praised MAHA doctors, and as a result of their indifference and enabling, Kennedy is in charge and taking a wrecking ball to things today with promises, assurances, and predictions of a health utopia just around the corner.
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I don’t know what 2026 will bring, but I predict that most of it will be very bad, and unlike the doctors I write about, I will admit it if I am wrong.
