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Originally published on THE DEFENDER
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today criticized mainstream media for pushing the narrative that rising autism rates are just a result of better diagnosis.
“One of the things that I think we need to move away from today is this ideology that autism diagnosis, that the autism prevalence increases, are simply artifacts of better diagnosis, better recognition, or changing diagnostic criteria,” Kennedy said at his first press conference since taking office.
HHS called the press conference to share results of the latest study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on autism prevalence, published yesterday.
An estimated 1 in 31 (3.22%) 8-year-old children had an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis in 2022 — up from 1 in 36 (2.8%) in 2020, the CDC said in its latest report from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM), which is published every two years.
Overall, the prevalence of autism in U.S. children rose approximately 17% between 2020 and 2022, continuing a decades-long trend.
The mainstream media responded in lockstep to yesterday’s report by denying that autism is an epidemic and doubling down on the argument that rising rates are simply the outcome of better diagnosis. The Washington Post called the 17% increase “small,” and The Hill labeled it a “slight” increase.
Kennedy responded today, saying the rate increases “are real,” and that each year there has been “a steady, relentless increase.” Kennedy said that while some people may be genetically predisposed to autism, it takes an environmental exposure to trigger the condition.
He added:
“This epidemic denial has become a feature in the mainstream media, and it’s based on an industry canard. Obviously, there are people who don’t want us to look at environmental exposures.”
Kennedy shared data from other previous studies on autism prevalence, including a 1987 study from North Dakota, in which researchers attempted to identify every child with autism in the state. In 1987, 330 out of every 1 million kids were diagnosed with autism. “Today there are 27,777 for every million,” he said.
“If you accept the epidemic denier’s narrative, you have to believe that researchers in North Dakota missed 98.8% of the children with autism,” Kennedy added. “Thousands of profoundly disabled children were somehow invisible to doctors, teachers and parents.”
“Doctors and therapists in the past were not stupid,” Kennedy added. “They weren’t missing all these cases.”
Kennedy also underscored that a high and growing percentage of children diagnosed with autism were severe cases. In a press release Tuesday, HHS outlined specific numbers:
“The increase in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence cannot be solely attributed to the expansion of diagnoses to include higher functioning children. On the contrary, the percentage of ASD cases with higher IQs (> 85) has decreased steadily over the last six ADDM reports to 36.1% in the 2022 survey. Nearly two-thirds of children with ASD in the latest survey had either severe or borderline intellectual disability (ID).”
“So we know what the historic numbers are and we know what the numbers are today, and it’s time for everybody to stop attributing this to this ideology of epidemic denial,” Kennedy said today.
He called out the National Institutes of Health for spending 10 to 20 times more on research into genetic causes than into environmental ones, and pledged that under his leadership, that will change. He said HHS will make grants available to university scientists and others to research the environmental causes of autism.
“People will know they can research and they can follow the science no matter what it says, without any kind of fear that they’re going to be censored, that they’re going to be gaslighted, that they’re going to be silenced, or that they’re going to be delicensed.”
“This is a preventable disease,” Kennedy said. “We know it’s an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics.”
One of the authors of the CDC study, and head researcher of the ADDM’s New Jersey site, Walter Zahorodny, Ph.D., from Rutgers Medical School, joined Kennedy at the press conference. Zahorodny said autism should be treated “as an urgent public health crisis.”
Zahorodny said:
“There is better awareness of autism, but better awareness of autism cannot be driving a disability like autism to increase by 300% in 20 years. That’s what we saw in New Jersey. That’s what the CDC report of yesterday indicates. And that’s what, in my opinion, future reports from epidemiologists will show.”
Zahorodny said a lot of data had been collected over 20 years, indicating that the “epidemic, tsunami, or a surge in autism” is significant. But no real progress had been made in understanding the environmental risk factors.
Children’s Health Defense Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker told The Defender he was “very encouraged” by Kennedy’s response to the latest autism prevalence report.
“The magnitude of the autism epidemic is staggering and the ‘better diagnosing’ reasoning for the increase in prevalence is utter nonsense and has been debunked ad infinitum.”
“Secretary Kennedy has demonstrated his commitment to address this issue directly. I look forward to not only answers but real solutions on how to clean up the mess created by a prior HHS that couldn’t care less about autistic children and adults,” he added.
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The cause of the vast increase in the rate of autism and autism-spectrum disorders has been known for decades.
Studies have been performed, data has been collected and reviewed, and the conclusion has been reached: vaccines.
When Big Pharma and their bought-and-paid-for reserachers/scientists, politicians, media whores, and medical professional customers claim that the vaccine cause has been “debunked,” that’s a load of crap.
They know the truth, but allowing that truth to be made public would bring an end to the gravy train and open them up to billion-dollar lawsuits.
So the lies continue.
The entire “science” behind vaccines is a lie and a fraud.
Vaccines are neither safe nor effective.
EVERY VACCINE MADE contains at least one toxin/neurotoxin; some contain as many as six.
Among these are mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, squalene, polysorbate 80, and the list goes on.
These are substances that do not belong in the human body, and there is no safe level for any of them.
When you inject significant quantities of these toxins into a human body, especially the body of a child, does it take a genius to understand that the end result is not going to be good?
The truth needs to be exposed and this massive crime against humanity must come to an end.
And if you don’t want to believe the vaccine cause, then consider the following example.
The Amish do not vaccinate their children, and the rate of autism and autism-spectrum disorders among them is a statistical ZERO.
I pray for this safety of Mr. Kennedy as he continues to investigate and make public these findings. I worked as a Children’s librarian in a public library and was castigated for questioning the safety and efficacy of vaccines and the relationship of the ever increasing vaccine protocol our littles ones are subjected to during the most formative stages of post natal development. Even though this article did not name vaccines as a cause of autism we know that this is part of the environmental factors discussed. I pray that all those in any position to research this ungodly epidemic will be emboldened to do so now that sanity is returning to our health agencies, institutions and universities. Truth ALWAYS WINS. To God be the Glory.
Oops should be “the” safety of…
RFK jr knows it’s the vaccines. Why doesn’t he talk about the elephant in the room that he knows we all see or is it that he is fearful of Big Pharma? … go along, to get along….