Kennedy Contradicts CDC Autism Study, Blames Drugs

Axios reports:

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the unusual step of publicly contradicting one of his own agencies’ autism studies on Tuesday, suggesting at a press conference that “environmental factors” including drugs, not improved screening, were causing a spike in confirmed cases. Kennedy’s assertion that researchers and the media are engaging in what he called “epidemic denial” could further stoke vaccine skepticism and broader public trust in science, experts say.

Kennedy abruptly called his first Washington press conference after the CDC on Tuesday released a study which found one in 31 U.S. children are diagnosed with autism by their eighth birthday. The figure was 1 in 54 in 2016, per the agency. The study cited an uptick “might be due to differences in availability of services for early detection and evaluation and diagnostic practices.” Differences in insurance coverage were also cited as a possible contributor.

Read the full article. This is the same guy who says that poppers cause AIDS and that COVID was engineered to spare Jews. Axios notes that only cultist outlets were allowed to cover today’s press conference.

HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outlines the findings of a new survey from the CDC which found that autism diagnoses are continuing to increase in the U.S.

“This is part of an unrelenting, upward trend,” Kennedy said. https://t.co/39eU2NZPjk pic.twitter.com/Cxhj5vevou

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