U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stark comments about children with autism have splintered a community of ...

Michigan's top health official questions Kennedy's research timeline while autism advocates criticize his characterization of ...

In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has ...

On April 16, now as head of Health and Human Services, RFK gave a press conference, and he described the tragedy of what he calls the autism “epidemic.” For years, he has insisted there is an ...

Genes don’t cause epidemics. You need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said in April when announcing his department’s new ...

While RFK did not mention vaccines in the conference, he recently appointed a controversial senior data analyst to the HHS, who has long attempted to tie vaccines to autism. According to the New ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, alarming researchers and parents. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Sheryl Gay ...

When RFK, Jr., said “environmental toxins” are causing autism, do you think he was talking about vaccines? Well, I listened very carefully to his testimony [on Wednesday]. And he will not rule ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses autism at a news conference in D.C. on April 16. When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D ...

Including about autism. Here’s how Kennedy’s recent claims stack up with the latest scientific understanding of autism. On an autism ‘epidemic.’ In an April 2025 press conference on autism ...

The world-renowned autism expert shares her thoughts with NBC News after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered controversial remarks about autistic people. In autism circles and beyond, Temple Grandin ...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had previously said the U.S. would find the cause of autism by September.