Sarah Longwell

Like, they had these very specific issues that I was like – and I'm a parent, but I was like –

I haven't been following this one.

But look, there are a bunch of things.

I don't know if you feel this way.

There are a bunch of things as you become a parent that are happening with kids where you're like, I don't know, it wasn't like this before.

Nobody had, there weren't all these nut allergies, right?

Or like there wasn't, you didn't know tons of kids who are autistic or like there's like,

All these things that feel new, things that feel new.

Right.

And so you're like, where is this coming from?

Why is this happening?

And I think for for parents who of autistic children who feel like they don't know exactly why, there's a lot of people who are like, OK, well, maybe he's going to get to the bottom of some of this.

And actually, I think it's I'm not sure if I think it's less about.

What you just outlined, it's a little bit more like he's basically a crank who is now, you know, he's like, well, we're getting rid of vaccines everywhere and we're cutting all this medical research.

And what I hear about Maha when I do hear about it is like,

oh, I was excited for RFK, but they haven't really gotten anywhere on X, Y, or Z, whatever the bespoke issue was that they were interested in doing it.

And in fact, there was a spate of time when they came out, there was a lot of people who were upset about the idea of like,

It was Tylenol causing autism in part because mothers felt like they were being blamed, like the idea that they took Tylenol.

And if you don't think that those women haven't figured out how to read 11 peer-reviewed studies on these things, like they have.

And so I think that there was some real frustration about that.