Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday declared he will have an answer within five months to a question that has dogged medical research for decades:
What has caused the massive increase in autism?
“By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” Kennedy said during a televised meeting of President Donald Trump’s cabinet.
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There’s no question the increase has been staggering.
Between 2000 and 2020 alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the autism rate among children has increased from 1 in 150 to 1 in 36.
At Thursday’s cabinet meeting, Kennedy, 71, said the rate now is 1 in 31, compared to “1 in 10,000 when
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