US EditionKennedy’s Autism Crusade Ignores History, Including His Own Family’s
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary, vowed in 2025 to identify some causes of autism by September through a broad-based study in the U.S.
- Kennedy's plan follows decades of autism research that found no vaccine link and has splintered the autism community amid concerns about his past suggestions blaming vaccines.
- The study will award grants to 15 scientists despite criticisms that Kennedy misrepresented autism and showed limited understanding of the disorder's complex developmental features.
- Kennedy has described autism as preventable and said, "children with autism will never write a poem" or "go out on a date," statements that outsiders view as painful or inaccurate.
- While some families hope Kennedy's study may offer answers, experts emphasize autism's elusive causes and attribute rising diagnoses largely to increased awareness, not vaccines.
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Emery Eversoll and her mother laughed loudly when Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr said that some autistic children will never write poems. The 16-year-old's room is full of notebooks with her prose. Sometimes, she recites poetry quietly to deal with an anger attack. Her mother began to suspect that she might be in the autistic spectrum, in part, because at the age of 2 she had memorized every word in her favorite book.
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