When it comes to disease, 47 likes to proclaim genius and sprinkle fairy dust early on. Horse dewormers and turmeric and hydroxychloroquine cure Covid, banning Tylenol will stop autism, banning seed oils will repair our guts, banning windmills will reduce cancer, etc. Science is hard, woo is easy. I've noticed that demagogues love making it appear that they have special powers to cut through all that needlessly complex egghead blather and seeing there's an easy fix that their constituents can understand and then feel smart for doing so.
From what I've heard, his family has long recognized his is a damaged brain, from heavy drug use starting around age 15, including over a decade of heroin addiction. The brain-eating parasite (a pork tapeworm, supposedly, which in fact does not eat brain tissue but forms a cyst) was IMO a sort of cover story to help the public believe his mental deficits were not his own fault.
