RFK Jr. Tells Trump ‘We Will Know’ What’s Caused Massive Autism Outbreak ‘By September’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr. announced at a recent cabinet meeting that he expects to identify the causes of the important rise in autism rates within five months. He highlighted that autism rates among children have surged from 1 in 150 in 2000 to as high as 1 in 31 today. Kennedy stated that a complete research initiative involving numerous scientists globally has been launched to investigate this issue, promising results by September. His declaration was met with enthusiasm by President Trump, who speculated about the possibility of pinpointing an “artificial” factor causing this increase.
The article also discusses historical context and factors behind the perceived increase in autism diagnoses, noting that diagnostic criteria have evolved over the years. This has expanded the definition of autism to include milder forms, leading to more diagnoses today. Additionally, it highlights previous controversies surrounding potential links between vaccinations and autism, such as a discredited study published in 1998 that sparked widespread concern.
Kennedy, known for his skepticism of vaccines and public health authorities, has committed to investigating “formerly taboo” topics regarding childhood vaccines and their links to autism, making this a focal point of his role as HHS Secretary.
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.
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 I was a kid.”
“We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” he said.
Trump clearly welcomed the prediction.
“There’s got to be something artificial out there that’s doing this,” he said. “So you think you’re going to have a pretty good idea?” he asked.
“We will know by September,” Kennedy repeated.
“There will be no bigger news conference than that,” Trump said. “If you can come up with that answer where, you stop taking something, you stop eating something, or maybe it’s a shot. But something’s causing it.”
One explanation for the increase involves changes in how a diagnosis of autism is reached.
Reporting on Kennedy’s prediction, The Associated Press noted that, “For decades, the diagnosis was given only to kids with severe problems communicating or socializing and those with unusual, repetitive behaviors. But around 30 years ago, the term became shorthand for a group of milder, related conditions known as ‘autism spectrum disorders.’ Milder autism cases are far more common than severe ones.”
The “autism spectrum” can even include undeniably successful individuals like Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a top adviser to Trump, who has publicly stated he has Asperger’s syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.
But its increase has been a topic of concern for decades.
In 1998, the British medical journal The Lancet published a study implicating the combined vaccination for measles, mumps, and rubella with autism occurrence. The publication withdrew the report 12 years later.
According to a 2010 ABC News report, the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council found that the chief researcher involved in the study was “guilty of acting unethically during the time he conducted the famous case report of 12 children that questioned if a childhood vaccine caused a new form of autism.”
Kennedy has an established record as an iconoclast.
He is a well-known skeptic of established vaccination procedures, including the COVID-19 vaccine, and is an outspoken, vociferous critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
(In 2021, he published a book titled “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”
He has vowed to use his position to study “formerly taboo” questions, including childhood vaccine schedules.
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