BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
It didn't take long, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has angered many people over his comments about autism recently.
From HUFPOST:
Appearing on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Fox News, Kennedy suggested he was baffled at the “wave of anger” because “I announced that we’re going to find the cause of autism,” sidestepping the fact that it was largely his commentary that caused the backlash.
Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic who has spread widely disproven theories that shots are linked to autism, continued, “We’ll have answers within six months. We’ll have definitive answers within a year, and then we’ll be able to eliminate the exposures. And this kind of tsunami of anger against me for making that announcement was almost incomprehensible to me.”
Doubling down, Kennedy added, “We know it’s an epidemic.”
Earlier this month, Kennedy called the disorder a “preventable disease” and an “epidemic” as he announced his department would by September identify what is causing a surge in cases.
In particular, critics called out Kennedy’s assessment of autistic individuals’ capabilities.
“These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” the health secretary said.
He later said he was only referring to 25% of the population with autism, such as those who are “nonverbal.”
Gwen Walz, the wife of Minnesota Gov. and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz (D), condemned Kennedy’s remarks, calling them “deeply upsetting, especially coming from our nation’s highest-ranking health official.”
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