The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said on Wednesday that his department would examine six “environmental factors” that, according to him, could lead to autism in the midst of an increase in confirmed cases of neurological development disorder.
“We are going to announce a series of new studies to identify precisely what are the environmental toxins that are causing [autism]”Kennedy said at a press conference.” This has not made the leg before. “
Among the “factors” that the 71 -year -old man said that they would be analyzed are ultrasound scans, factories, pesticides, food chemicals, medications and air and water pollution.
Kennedy’s “environmental factor” is broken from a study published on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who said that the increase in confirmed autism cases was probably due to the best elevators.
The study of the CDC revealed that one in 31 children under 8 is diagnosed with autism, compared to one in 2016 in 2016 and one in 150 in 2000.
The boys had three times more likely to be diagnosed than girls.
“This is catastrophic for our country,” Kennedy said before stating that “we know it is due to exposure to the environment.”
“Autism destroys families and, more importantly, destroys our greatest resources, our children.”
The secretary promised that some of the results of his studies would be revealed in September.
“We have launched a massive effort of evidence and research that will sequence hundreds of scientists around the world,” Kennedy told President Trump at a cabinet meeting last week. “For September, we will know what the autism epidemic has caused, and we can eliminate those exhibitions.”
On Wednesday, Kennedy said he wanted to “remove the taboo [so] That people know that they can investigate and follow science regardless of what they say, without any fear that they are censored “and said that the media were partial against the possible role of the environment in autism.
“There are clearly industries, this comes from an environmental toxin,” he said. “And someone obtained profits by putting that environmental toxin in our air, our water or our medications, our food and its benefit.”
In response to the study of CDC, the non -profit awareness organization Autism Autism required “a deeper and more sustained investment in autism research, not only to understand its causes, but also to support the growing number of people diagnosed today.
Meanwhile, the Autism Society of America contradicted RFK Jr. by insisting on the data of the CDCs “does not indicate an” epidemic “as stories affirm: it reflects the diagnostic progress and an urgent need for political decisions based on science and immediate needs of the autism community.”