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Health secretary Kennedy says US will know cause of autism epidemic by September (www.reuters.com)

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The United States government will identify the cause of autism by September this year, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday.

"At your direction, we are going to know by September. We've launched a massive testing and research effort that's going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world," Kennedy said at a meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

So basically he is going to try to blame vaccines and eliminate them to save us from an "epidemic" that surely existed before but we just didn't have an actual name and diagnosis for autism at the time so people with all sorts of mental disorders that were known and unkown were all lumped together with the common title of "retarded". Remember this is what they want to return too or just eliminate as undesirables