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RFK Jr. wants to find the 'cause' of autism. Here's what people in the autism community think.
Kennedy Jr. said April 10 during a meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet that the government will know the cause of the ...
RFK Jr attributes rise in autism to environmental factors, while CDC points to improved diagnostic practices
RFK Jr. and autism experts are at odds over the root cause of autism, as the Department of Health and Human Services launches ...
Health chief RFK Jr.: Autism caused by environmental exposures; contradicts new CDC report
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday labeled the increasing rates of autism in children an epidemic and said ...
Who Is Walter Zahorodny? RFK Jr.'s Expert on Autism
Longtime autism researcher and clinical psychologist Walter Zahorodny is one of the experts advising Department of Health and ...
RFK Jr. links autism rise to ‘environmental toxins,' contradicting CDC findings
NBC News Health and Medical Reporter Berkeley Lovelace Jr. joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Montgomery County family worries RFK Jr.'s press conference will confuse, raise fears about autism
A Montgomery County family, who have several children with a wide range of autism symptoms, took issue with RFK Jr. blaming epidemic denial for what he calls a preventable disease.
RFK Jr. says cause of autism will be found by September, but experts fear he's reviving debunked theories
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a "massive testing and research effort" will focus on the cause of autism, but ...
Why Are Autism Rates Increasing? What Five Experts Say
"I don't think there's one smoking gun," one autism researcher told Newsweek about data pointing to increased autism cases in ...
RFK Jr. accuses researchers, media of ‘epidemic denial’ amid rising autism rates
The U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services announced upcoming studies to identify ‘environmental factors’ he says are ...
Inside an anti-vaccine autism summit in the age of RFK Jr.
Public health experts say the anti-vaccine views fronted by the HHS secretary are wrong and undermine trust in science. But a ...
In first news conference as HHS secretary, Kennedy says autism is an epidemic in the US
In his first news conference as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ...
Former FDA Official on RFK’s Promise to Identify Autism Cause: ‘Giving False Hope Is Wrong’
"If you just ask me, as a scientist, is it possible to get the answer quickly? I don't see any possible way," said Dr. Peter ...