Kennedy confirms HHS is on track to reveal causes of autism in September

Just the News ^ | August 26, 2025 5:17pm | Misty Severi

[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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: brainwormbobby; inbreeding

[nickcarraway]

Is there just one cause?

[BenLurkin]

Whatever it may or not be, government has no business meddling in it.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

You could call me somewhat of an RFK skeptic.

I hope he has solid and irrefutable clinical evidence. He has no need to beclown himself on this, because the figures on autism are absolutely alarming.

[stanne]

Then he ought to move on to the cause of mass shootings, particularly in elementary schools

We know the percentage of those have gone up since 1970

[1Old Pro]

Then he ought to move on to the cause of mass shootings, particularly in elementary schools

What is the common thread, lots of gender confused doing the crimes.

[mrmeyer]

They should publish the percentage of shooters prescribed SSRIs

[stanne]

“ Whatever it may or not be, government has no business meddling in it.”

Well the government sure as a won’t allow kids to go to school without vaccinations.

This baby boomer saw 1-2 cases in suburban NY growing up and about 20 in 100 having kids around the military, and among a ton of extended family ad NY baby boomer friends

Government has to prove it’s not their mandates, at least

[stanne]

See 7

[Sacajaweau]

The spectrum is tooooooo broad.

The same thing happened with ADHD.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The spectrum is tooooooo broad.

A Billion Dollar Somali Autism Fraud in Minnesota

[Texas Eagle]

Amen, bro!

Autism and PTSD are caused by money.

[Harpotoo]

White liberal moms?-)

[zeestephen]

Here come the lawyers and the giant law suits.

I would settle for a specific definition of autism.

As of today, autism includes EVERY unusual behavior that has not already been assigned to a different mental health issue.

[beef]

“As of today, autism includes EVERY unusual behavior that has not already been assigned to a different mental health issue.”

Yes, and I think a lot of them used to be nipped in the bud by early parental corrective action, instead of being tolerated and allowed to develop into full blown personality disorders.

[Trumpet 1]

The Gov. pays the Welfare Women extra money each month to have an autism kid. The Welfare Mons are given instructions on how to coach their kids on how to act in order to pass a test to prove autism is real. And the Mom is then given prescribed drugs to give to the fake autism kid along with the extra monthly money. And then, there are the actual kids who do have autism.

[Trumpet 1]

The Gov. pays the Welfare Women extra money each month to have an autism kid. The Welfare Mons are given instructions on how to coach their kids on how to act in order to pass a test to prove autism is real. And the Mom is then given prescribed drugs to give to the fake autism kid along with the extra monthly money. And then, there are the actual kids who do have autism.

[Trumpet 1]

The Gov. pays the Welfare Women extra money each month to have an autism kid. The Welfare Mons are given instructions on how to coach their kids on how to act in order to pass a test to prove autism is real. And the Mom is then given prescribed drugs to give to the fake autism kid along with the extra monthly money. And then, there are the actual kids who do have autism.

[Bookshelf]

“...research effort to find the root causes of autism in April.”
When he is done, will he try to find the root causes of autism in May? In June?

[Gay State Conservative]

My first boss at the large Boston hospital where I worked for 25 years was a neuropathologist and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. We were taking once about the brain and he said to me that scientists knew more about the surface of the moon than they knew about the human brain.

I wonder if they've made so much progress since then for anyone to make such a claim.