Song of the Day 9/23: Huey Lewis and the News, “I Want a New Drug”
Autism, you’ll be happy to know, is now a thing of the past, thanks to sex pervert and whale carcass mutilator RFK Jr. – just keep the pregnant women away from the acetaminophen and give the kids who are already autistic leucovorin, a drug currently used to treat side effects of cancer drugs.
See? How easy was that? To be fair, there is some evidence in studies – studies so small the effect isn’t much better than anecdotal – that some non-verbal autistic kids have started speaking. But there’s scant evidence that either measure will “cure” autism. The same is true of acetaminophen, or as Trump pronounces it, Tylenol. Some broad studies show a slight correlation, which is not the same as proving causation. Others don’t.
The real reason for the large uptick in autism diagnoses is simple categorization: What used to be called Asperger’s is now classified as part of the so-called autism spectrum. You’d think an administration besotted with renaming things would understand the concept.
Little matter. Ever since penicillin, the public has grown accustomed to silver bullets that kill diseases – ironically, given RFK Jr.’s hard-on for them, many are vaccines – so every sliver of hope merits clickable headlines about miracles. The scam-addicted right-wing media will be awash in them by dinnertime.
The second single from Lewis’ first No. 1 album, 1983’s “Sports,” reached No. 6 the next year. It did even better later in the year when Ray Parker Jr. rewrote the lyrics and called it “Ghostbusters.” His theme song to the hit movie went to No. 1.
