Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is raising alarms in the scientific community. Kennedy declared during a recent cabinet meeting with President Trump that by September — just five months away — the federal government will determine the cause of autism and begin eliminating exposures he claims are to blame.
Trump echoed the tone of Kennedy’s remarks, stating, “There’s gotta be something artificial out there that’s doing this.”
But here’s the problem: the science doesn’t agree. While the root causes of autism remain complex, researchers widely agree it’s influenced by a combination of genetics and environmental factors such as parental age and prenatal exposures — not vaccines.
That vaccine-autism link has been repeatedly debunked by decades of peer-reviewed studies. Still, under Kennedy’s leadership, the CDC has been ordered to reinvestigate vaccines and autism. Meanwhile, top FDA vaccine official Dr. Peter Marks resigned, accusing Kennedy of pushing misinformation and lies.
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