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Kennedy confirms HHS is on track to reveal causes of autism in September
Just the News ^ | August 26, 2025 5:17pm | Misty Severi

Posted on 08/27/2025 12:29:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Kennedy first announced a joint research effort to find the root causes of autism in April as part of the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" mission.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Tuesday confirmed to President Donald Trump that his department is still on track to publish information identifying "interventions" that are contributing to a rise in autism.

Kennedy first announced a joint research effort to find the root causes of autism in April as part of the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" mission. One-in-36 children have autism spectrum disorder, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in 2020.

Trump also established a commission in February that would look at everything from the rates of autism and asthma in children to how much medicine is being prescribed to children for ADHD or other conditions.

The update comes after Trump asked Kennedy how the research was going during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, according to The Hill

“We are doing very well,” Kennedy said. "We will have announcements as promised in September, finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism. And we’re going to be able to address those in September.”

Kennedy also repeated his stance that outside factors, such as environmental factors or vaccines, are responsible for the rise in cases. Health experts, however, have largely cited an increase in awareness of the disorder for the rise in diagnosis, along with a broadening of criteria for the disorder and an improvement in detecting autism.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Interesting that a Thiel guy is being named the acting head of the CDC.


21 posted on 08/28/2025 5:45:53 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Sacajaweau
Yes. I will agree that the spectrum is too broad and that there is a lot of fraud. There is also a tendency for schools to take kids that have problems and warehousing them because those kids bring in four time the money a regular student does.

All of this is true.

But there is something else going on as well. I am seeing far to many kids from decent parents who are non-verbal.

Talking is what humans do.

When we have a significant rise in the number of humans who can not communicate something has gone wrong.

22 posted on 08/28/2025 5:55:43 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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