RFK Jr Insists Cause of Autism ‘Epidemic’ in Study Update

During a news conference on autism on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that “genes do not cause epidemics” and that environmental exposure does. “This is a preventable disease,” he said April 16, dismissing an HHS agency report’s explanation for the increase. “We know it’s an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin.”