RFK Jr. Keeps Spewing Lies About Autism

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Last week, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that, despite recently laying off hundreds of scientists, his department would determine the “cause” of autism by September. This claim was met with immediate pushback from researchers who have been studying autism for decades, who say that not only is this timeline completely unrealistic, but the notion that there’s a single root cause of autism is wildly misleading. Of course, that hasn’t deterred Kennedy...