Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during a confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services on Jan. 29, 2025 in Washington. © Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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(Washington, DC) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is claiming a new research effort led by the Department of Health and Human Services will lead to a cure for autism as early as the Fall. Kennedy, who heads HHS made the comment at the White House Thursday during a cabinet meeting. He says HHS has launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. He has reportedly hired a longtime figure in the anti-vaccine movement to lead the research effort. Multiple studies have found no link between autism and vaccines.
Kennedy claims that autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31, since the time he was a child in the early 1960s.
