Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cox: School tablet terms permit listening into students' homes
“My daughter has user accounts and tablets that the school provides to her. And if you really read the terms and conditions, when she's using that device in my home, they can listen to what's going on in my home.”
Assertion Contradicted
Cox: 50% to 52% of all US men go to jail in their lifetime
“50, 52% of all men in our country go to jail at some point in their lifetime.”
Insight
Cox: Never store intellectual property on Google Drive or Amazon Drive
“If you're working on intellectual property, Don't put it in a Google drive, an Amazon drive, anything else. You need to keep that local, right?”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cox: If governments mandated another lockdown, people would comply without hesitation
“And I think if they did another lockdown people would herd to their houses and not, not think about it twice.”
Opinion
Ken Cox: Cannabis is 100% better as medicine than any market opioid
“I look at cannabis, 100% as a medicine that's way better than any opioid that the market ever had.”
Insight
Cox: Off-grid communal homesteads consistently fail from unchecked authority
“There's a lot of movements right now that are people getting together and buying homesteads and creating communities of two, 300 people living off grid, farming, doing all those things. Unfortunately, that never has ended very well either in our society. Right…”
Insight
Cox: Guardianship and Safe Boundaries Outperform Strict Authority in Parenting
“I'm not a huge fan of authority, but I like guardianship, right? I like the mindset of we've created a safe place for him to roam as free as he can and maintain safety at the same time, right?”
Opinion
Cox: Nonverbal Autistic Son Is Highly Aware and Desires to Speak
“I, 100% believe that's the case. Joe unders like we can have conversations at death of things that I know that he understands. And this binary system that we've created of yes, no, this, that if this, then very clearly tells us that. He's aware that he has aut…”
Assertion Partly supported
Cox: Plant Life Uses Up to 50 'Words' to Communicate
“Plant life has up, like, 50 words that, that they're communicating back and forth with each other. They share resources.”
Opinion
Cox: People Should Never Offer Sympathy Apologies Over Autistic Children
“I think, you know, the one comment that I get that I dislike the most is when they find out that I have a son with autism, like, oh, I'm sorry. Like, well, I have a son. He happens to have autism. There's nothing for you to be sorry about.”
Opinion
Cox: Metadata-stripping app is probably a $3M-$5M annual business
“It would have to be somebody passionate about it, but I think it's an easy, it's probably a three to five million dollar a year company. If you can get the word out there right, and you get the right marketing and advertising for it.”
Disclosure
Cox: Raising Autistic Son Prolonged His Alcoholism and Workaholic Coping
“As an entrepreneur for a long time, it gave me an excuse to keep my head down. It probably kept me in alcoholism longer than it should have by far, which also let me keep my head down. And You know, work through things as an entrepreneur that I probably would …”
Insight
Ken Cox: Part Ways Immediately With Misaligned Team Members
“If they're not the right team member and you have that gut feeling at any point in time, just go ahead and separate ways. That fighting to keep people on your team that aren't of the same mindset is just it whittles away at the entire team's progress moving fo…”
Insight
Cox: Parenting an Autistic Child Requires Discarding Preconceived Expectations
“So I had to find new ways to be the best dad that I could be for the son that I had, not the son that I thought that I wanted.”
Disclosure
Cox: Comprehensive Autism Diagnostic Evaluation Cost His Family Up to $6,000
“I think the full diagnostic cost for us was about five or 6000 dollars to get the full thing.”
Assertion Supported
Cox: US Medical and Educational Autism Diagnoses Can Exist Independently
“You can get a medical diagnosis, but not have an educational diagnosis or vice versa.”
Disclosure
Cox: Own Dissociative Syndrome Mirrors His Autistic Son's Experiences
“I have, I suffer from disassociative syndrome. And a lot of his issues, I see the similar similarities to what the doctors have told me that I have. So disassociation between your mind and your body.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cox: 12-Year-Old Autistic Son Has Escaped School Every Single Year
“Every single school year he has escaped from the school. Every single school year, you know, he's 12”
Disclosure
Cox: Household Locks All Appliances and Drawers for Autistic Son's Safety
“So our house today is ridiculous with locks and keys. Like everything is under lock and key. Our drawers, our refrigerator, our oven everything is, it has to have something Some kind of buffer between Joe and it.”
