Posted on 08/27/2025 5:41:59 AM PDT by DFG
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s on track to identify “interventions” that are “certainly causing autism” and possible ways of addressing them by September.
In April, Kennedy vowed to find the cause of growing rates of autism, calling it an “epidemic” that “dwarfs the COVID epidemic.”
President Trump asked Kennedy for a progress update during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, saying, “The autism is such a tremendous horror show. What’s happening in our country and some other countries, but mostly our country. How are you doing?”
“We are doing very well,” Kennedy responded. “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 has long claimed that environmental factors, or vaccines, are likely culprits behind the rising rate of autism diagnoses, arguing research to back this up has been blocked by federal authorities. He argued in April that autism should be prevented because autistic people are burdens on their family and society.
“These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” Kennedy said. “Autism destroys families.”
During the Cabinet meeting, Kennedy pointed to his oft-repeated evidence of environmental factors contributing to autism rates, noting how diagnosis rates have significantly jumped since the 1970s.
“So, there has to be something artificially causing this, meaning a drug or something. And I know you’re looking very strongly at different things, and I hope you can come out with that as soon as possible,” Trump said.
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Much of the research has been on genetic contributions to autism which though valuable leaves the question of how you can have a genetic epidemic.
On such a large scale obviously you can’t.
Hopefully HHS w FBI can clean our the Somali autism fraud on Minnesota
Pork eaters have a lower frequency of marrying a 9-year-old.
Get ready to sue the heck out of someone after this comes out if you have autism in your family.
Now if they can reveal the causes of liberalism.
Squeezing too hard with the forceps?
“RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September.”
Yah, but what about the causes of autism in October, November, etc.?
Why not now, Bobby?.....................
September is in 5 days.
What? They have to do final edits??? /s
Drama doesn’t belong here.
HOORAY RFK Jr.!
I'll cut them some slack for taking time to do data validation. Maybe filter out obvious data entry records like if the subject is both male and pregnant (one of those data fields is incorrect). Or if the BP has 4 digits, or if the subject is an Auburn fan and likes to sing "We Are the Champions".
The upper echelons of the professional class and pols take the month of August off.
I’m happy to wait til they’re back.
Agreed.
“In our widely used textbooks Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder (Goldstein, Ozonoff & Naglieri, 2008; Goldstein & Ozonoff, 2018), we have documented this shift. Today’s children differ significantly from those diagnosed 30 or 40 years ago. Most have average or above-average intelligence, many are verbal, and a growing number are diagnosed not due to severe developmental delays but rather because of social communication differences and behavioral rigidity. Autism has shifted from being about profound disability to being more about differences in social learning.”
Note: I’m only partially of that view personally. I tend to think that insufficient & downright lousy parenting before school age is a big factor. I also believe that searching for Mr. Right too long and then waiting to have kids cause defects in eggs and sperm to build up.
I also tend to think that when overdemanding male breeds with overdemanding female, a really overdemanding child can result.
On this subject, FReepers may find Leland Vitert’s (News Nation) story interesting. He has a book out “Born Lucky”. He spoke about this for the first time a few nights ago on his show.
He was diagnosed with autism as a child and took such ridicule from teachers and others that his father decided he would not accept that diagnosis and QUIT his job to work with his son to fit into the world.
This will say it better than I can: -
We know that he became very successful; going on to become a foreign correspondent, living and working in the Middle East for several years.
I’m anxious to get the book....
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