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

Almost all the food we eat is contaminated by contact with some form of plastic. Not only food, but most medications, beauty products and cleaners.

Hanna Rosin: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is very concerned about autism. He has been for a couple of decades, since he first became convinced that mercury in vaccines made children autistic, which by the ...

He's said the childhood vaccine schedule will be examined in a study of autism's causes. He’s called the measles ... The Independent has always been committed to challenge and debate. It launched in ...

The debate over his comments has become a flashpoint ... and discredited theories—such as the debunked link between vaccines and autism—could be misused to justify harmful policies, further ...

But the COVID vaccine would also bring a renewed public debate around vaccines ... research “the origins” of the “epidemic” of autism, which he said now affects 1 in 31 children.

While Kennedy didn’t explicitly discuss vaccines, his remarks ... There’s long been a scientific debate about how much of the rise in apparent autism rates is due to better diagnosis and ...

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new autism study has sparked controversy, alarming the medical community due to his history of promoting debunked vaccine-autism links. Experts and ...

will investigate whether vaccines cause autism. The public health announcement reignited a longstanding debate over a theory lacking substantial scientific evidence. “As President Trump said in ...

The CDC is planning a large study on vaccine-autism links, despite extensive research finding no credible connection. Autism's causes remain unclear, but studies suggest genetic and prenatal ...

Although not true for vaccines and autism, evidence can be contradictory ... Open societies build on trust, freedom of speech and debate – but also on shared responsibility.