by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has warned that five toxins in everyday goods—mold, pesticides, food chemicals, medicines, and ultrasound scans—may be fueling a “tsunami” of autism cases across the U.S.
Kennedy announced plans to commission studies to investigate these factors, noting that autism rates began rising in the 1980s, coinciding with the widespread use of ultrasound scans.
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Dailymail.co.uk reports: RFK Jr went on to suggest industries were profiting off of environmental toxins that are driving more autism diagnoses, an apparent nod to his vaccine skepticism and crusade against artificial food ingredients.
Scientists and advocates for people with autism have criticized Kennedy’s position as harmful and misleading. Mainstream research describes autism as a complex condition largely shaped by genetics and multiple other contributing factors.
It comes after a Tuesday CDC report suggested the number of US children with autism rose to one in 31 in 2022, up from one in 36 in 2020 and one in 56 in 2016.
By comparison, early studies from the 1960s and 70s estimated autism rates to be as low as 1 in 5,000. Most researchers say the trend can likely be attributed to better screening and awareness — but Kennedy said that only accounts for ’10 to 20 percent’ of cases.
‘Doctors and therapists in the past weren’t stupid. They weren’t missing all these cases,’ RFK Jr told an abruptly called press conference today.
He also dismissed the idea that autism rates are being fueled by genetic factors, saying, ‘genes do not cause epidemics,’ adding that ‘it [the rise in autism] must be triggered or caused by environmental or risk factors.’
Kennedy told reporters: ‘We need to move away from the ideology that the relentless autism prevalence increase is simply an artifact of better recognition and better diagnostic criteria.
‘The epidemic is real. Only a small percentage can be charged to better recognition or better diagnostic criteria.
‘The answer is very clear and this is catastrophic for our country.’
Kennedy said he would announce a series of studies in the next two to three weeks to identify ‘precisely what the environmental toxins are’ that may be contributing to the rise.
His claim that the surge in autism cases is not due to better screening puts him at odds with the researchers behind this week’s CDC report.
The authors stated that the uptick ‘might be due to differences in availability of services for early detection and evaluation and diagnostic practices.’
They also highlighted differences in insurance coverage.
But Kennedy said: ‘It’s time for everyone to stop attributing this rise to epidemic denial.
‘External factors, environmental exposures, that’s where we’re going to find the answer.’
RFK Jr promised ‘we will have some answers by September… there will be an answer for the American people very, very quickly.’
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