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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jul 5, 2025, 07:36 PM Jul 2025

RFK Jr. Says We'll Soon Know What's Fueling The 'Autism Epidemic' -- And His Prediction Is Absolutely Wild [View all]

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared in April that “by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic,” setting a timeline of five months for identifying the growth of a disorder that has been heavily researched for decades across the globe.

“We are going to know by September,” Kennedy declared at a Trump Cabinet meeting, while crediting this forecast to his launch of a federal study that he reportedly tapped a fellow vaccine skeptic to oversee. “We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures.”

Kennedy, a prolific vaccine skeptic who along with President Donald Trump has spread widely disproven claims that the shots are linked to autism, went on to stress that autism rates are rising in the U.S., with about 1 in 31 children diagnosed today, as opposed to 1 in 10,000 “when I was a kid.”



Medical experts have primarily attributed this increase to improved diagnostic capabilities, a broadened definition of autism and increased awareness. Researchers believe there is no single cause of autism but that a combination of factors, including genetics, plays a role, as the National Institutes of Health explains on its website.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-says-well-soon-120020390.html

Brain worms!!!! That got to be the cause.

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It's rock 'n' roll. Ocelot II Jul 2025 #1
I mean, it's not like testing methods have gotten better over time sakabatou Jul 2025 #2
Let me guess. Breathing causes autism? Eating? Drinking water? Just Autumn Jul 2025 #3
When RFKjr was a kid, what we now consider autism did not exist Fiendish Thingy Jul 2025 #4
I'm about RFKJR's age. When I was a kid there was a boy in my neighborhood who we later realized Ocelot II Jul 2025 #10
in the 60's my severely autistic brother was diagnosed as "emotionally disturbed" Skittles Jul 2025 #14
Sigh lonely bird Jul 2025 #5
Ignorant and arrogant llmart Jul 2025 #7
he's evil mucifer Jul 2025 #8
I love how he says this stuff like he's the first person to ever think "hey maybe we should research this!" Takket Jul 2025 #6
A little learning is a dangerous thing ; struggle4progress Jul 2025 #9
Alexander Pope says it well. RobK took his young family members swimming in a severely polluted spring... Hekate Jul 2025 #18
Gosh, when you don't rely on any scientific methodology, the conclusion can be anything. Baitball Blogger Jul 2025 #11
We have a deranged psychopath in charge of public health. WTF. Initech Jul 2025 #12
Some credible studies are showing a link between microplastic exposure pre/post natal and Autism. mackdaddy Jul 2025 #13
"by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic," LudwigPastorius Jul 2025 #15
"Two months" is going to become the new "two weeks." Grokenstein Jul 2025 #17
We have a profoundly stupid ghoul in charge of our health system dalton99a Jul 2025 #16
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