Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: On Track To Identify “Interventions” That Are “Certainly Causing Autism”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave an update on the upcoming autism report at today’s cabinet meeting.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Bobby, autism, if I could just, I don’t want to go too long because we have a lot of people, but the autism is such a tremendous horror show, what’s happening in our country and some other countries, but mostly our country. How are you doing on that? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: We are doing very well. We will have announcements as promised in September. We’re finding interventions, certain interventions now that are clearly, almost certainly causing autism. And we’re going to be able to address those in September. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s such a big day. I’m looking forward to that day because there’s something wrong when you see the kind of numbers that you have today versus 20 years ago. And those numbers, what are those numbers, Bob? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: In 1970, the biggest epidemiological study in history was done in Wisconsin. They looked at 900,000 children and they were looking for autism. They knew what it looked like and they were very, very precise about it. And they found an incident rate of 0.7, in other words, less than one per every 10,000 children. Today, our most recent numbers are one every 31 kids. It’s probably actually much worse than that because California, which has the best collection system, is reporting one out of every 19 children, American children, has autism, one in every 12.5 boys. So it’s gone from less than one in 10,000 in 1970 to one in 12.5 boys. Think of those numbers. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: So there has to be something artificially causing this, meaning a drug or something. And I know you’re looking very strongly at different things and I hope you can come out with that as soon as possible. So one in 10,000 and now it’s one in 31 or 34 or 12 if it’s a boy. Can you imagine that? One in 12, that’s for a boy. One in every 12.5 boys. It’s not even believable that that could be. And that was one in 10,000 not so long ago. I’ve been hearing these numbers and they get worse and worse every year. There’s got to be something, I think there’s nothing, including favored nations and everything else, there’s nothing that can be, if you can find out the reason that that’s happening. And I know we’re going to do some things. I think we maybe know the reason and I look forward to that press conference to be with you on that press conference. That’s going to be a great thing. Thank you, Bob.
