By Maggie Astor Azeen Ghorayshi and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks this week that autism “destroys” children have prompted outrage among many autistic people, who said they had ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. To Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and contrary to medical ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. again likened autism to an “epidemic” and said it is far worse than millions of COVID-19 deaths. The health and human services ...

While autism experts claim that the rise in cases stems from greater awareness and improved diagnostic testing, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shut ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. − who has long spread debunked claims surrounding autism and vaccines − suggested compensating families of some Americans with autism ...

Kennedy Jr. to meet. Singer’s brother and daughter are two of the millions living with autism in the United States, and part of a much larger community that has very publicly expressed feeling ...

The education of autistic children and young people in western societies has been heavily influenced by a medicalized understanding of autism. This means considering autism as a disorder ...

A friend and I were once talking about neurodiversity and trauma. She signaled that it seems like for whatever reason, autistic people seem to be paired with difficult lives. Our casual ...

The study reveals that ... Apr. 1, 2025 — In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new ... Repetitive Behaviors and ...

Kennedy Jr. said April 10 during a meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet that the government will know the cause of the "autism epidemic” by September, and will be able to "eliminate those ...

Idaho police have released bodycam footage of officers’ fatal shooting of a non-verbal autistic teenager who was holding a knife. Victor Perez, 17, died on Apr. 13, eight days after being shot ...