The U.S. federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence, including ...

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Public health is worsening, autism rates are rising — and so are incident conspiracy theories, including claims that the root ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

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