Given the multiplicity of what appear to be the major problems/issues we face today, it is hard to pick out which are the most important ones to understand, and to try to tackle.

Moreover, the MSM, Academia, and other parts of the Establishment (for their own purposes and benefit) are doing their damnedest to focus our attention on the items they want us to focus on, and on getting us to ignore and/or to bury the items that they don’t want us to focus on, to understand, and to come to grips with.

The most prominent recent example obviously COVID, in which the powers that be—most of our political leaders, and assorted public health and medical “experts”–ran a very comprehensive, and effective, disinformation campaign against us, as we were showered with a whole truckload of “official” bullshit, disinformation, and misdirection–frightened, panicked, pushed and shoved, coerced into going in the direction they wanted us to go in–with those few dissenters holding contrary opinions just shut down, and “canceled.”

This, it looks like, a dry run, to see how easy it might be to strip away our Rights and Freedom in a supposed “Emergency.”

Moreover, while everyone has had their attention focused on supposed “Global Warming,” on “Green Energy,” and on supposed overpopulation, the solutions to these problems—switching away from nuclear energy, coal, and petroleum (“Just Stop Oil”) resulting in possible deaths in Europe being predicted for this coming winter (and reportedly, in some parts of Europe, they’re already cutting down forests to go back to wood as a heating source), massive investments in things like banks of Chinese produced solar cells (which, in the end, enrich China while producing more pollution, when you consider the costs and inputs needed to produce them and, then, to dispose of them), Electric cars (which not only have the same problems with inputs and then disposal—with battery fires in between–but also with very high costs, specially the cost of replacement batteries), massive numbers of huge wind turbines (which are not only ineffective in providing enough power, and a blot on the landscape, but also reportedly kill off large numbers of birds), and massive numbers of abortions, particularly among the black population (Margaret Sanger smiles), all things that have the net effect of not strengthening, but weakening our societies and us as individuals.

Here are just a couple of candidates for alternative things which should be focused on and investigated–

1. Our present and predicted major population declines, coupled with the reported major decrease in sperm counts in the nations of the West.

2. The massive increase, over the last several decades, in autism and allergies among children.

Something in our processed foods, some other environmental cause?

While we have had our heads deliberately turned in the other direction, under the surface, something else has been happening.

Like to take credit but I think it was autocorrect.

Now THAT is absolutely brilliant!

And applying the same to autism would leave us where? Escher’s recent piece on the “surge” includes some infuriating descriptions about how part of the neurological establishment is seeking to diminish the importance and difficulty of autism.
Origin?
Flix?
Prevention?

The number of pharmaceutical ads on television outnumber even those for My Pillow. Quite obviously there is massive attention to one’s health in this culture, and the money to be made in the area.
Would not that generate some interest in preventing or ameliorating autism to a greater extent than currently?
I guess the question is whether we’d be hearing about research efforts. There’s always something new about cancer…..

Without taking a guess as to cause, I’d say the current situation is fertile ground for any conspiracy theory one might name. Something has to fill the gap. It’s human nature to want answers and they have to come from some place.
So whether one is an anti-vaxxer or insists on conception according to Milankovitch Cycles, if nobody has a better answer….

Sometimes, when my grandmother was in a good mood, she would smile, wink, and say, “Boop Oop A Doop,” Betty Boop’s catchphrase.

See Betty walk a tightrope, tame lions and fight off the circus manager!

–“Betty Boop – Boop Oop A Doop (1932) Mae Questel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGuj4Fgyjx0

These days most Americans have no idea how wild and fun those early animated cartoons were.

Interesting questions and worth investigating but, given recent history, just who, what organization would you trust, today, to do the investigating, and would you be able to trust any conclusions they might come to?

War sucks. Roosia sucks ever more for starting this war. Your point is what, again?