Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged he would uncover what caused the “autism epidemic” by September and release his findings to the public.
During a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday, Kennedy said the HHS has launched a “massive” research effort involving “hundreds of scientists from around the world” to discover why autism rates have skyrocketed. By September, he said, the task force would know what caused the increases and target the factors driving the rising rates of autism.
“The autism rates have gone from now, most recent numbers, we think are going to be about 1-in-31. … So they’re going up again from one in 10,000 when I was a kid,” he said. “We’ve launched a massive testing and
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