The mainstream media has ignored the autism “epidemic,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday at his first press conference.
“This epidemic denial has become a feature in the mainstream media,” Kennedy said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest study found that the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnoses had increased from 1 in 36 eight-year-olds to 1 in 31 from 2020 to 2022, according to figures published by the CDC on Tuesday.
“Doctors and therapists in the past were not stupid,” Kennedy said. “They weren’t missing all these cases. The epidemic is real.”
The environmental lawyer-turned presidential candidate-turned HHS secretary said he ordered the National Institutes of Health to study environmental factors, exposures, and external factors that could cause autism. By…
