Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unleashed a bizarre take on autism during a press conference Wednesday, describing the neurodevelopmental condition as a “preventable disease” caused by a mysterious environmental toxin.
Addressing rising autism diagnoses, the health secretary claimed many children were “fully functional” before they “regressed, because of some environmental exposure, into autism when they’re two years old.”
This contradicts the latest study on autism from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of his own agencies, which said the uptick “might be due to differences in availability of services for early detection and evaluation and diagnostic practices.”
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