RFK Jr.’s Autism Bombshell
RFK Jr. claims that he will find the cause of autism by September.
On April 10, 2025, at a White House meeting, RFK Jr. said, “We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists throughout the world. By September we will know what causes the autism epidemic and be able to eliminate it.” Wow. One would assume that up until now researchers have been ignoring this disease. They haven’t. In 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $170 million dollars to study the disorder, an amount that has increased every year. In 2025, NIH spent $330 million. The Autism Cares Act authorizes an additional $2 billion over the next five years.
Research efforts have revealed many promising leads. For example, there is a strong genetic component to autism. Having a sibling with autism increases the risk for other siblings. Genetic mutations include those involved in how one brain cell learns to connect to another (so-called synaptic development). Infections such as rubella (German measles) or cytomegalovirus (CMV) during pregnancy increase the risk of autism as do maternal health risks such as diabetes, obesity, and psychiatric disorders. Some studies have found that exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides, heavy metals, and air pollution might play a role; the best studied environmental factor, vaccines, have been exonerated. In other words, autism doesn’t have a single cause but rather is a complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors.
Given what we know about the cause or causes of autism, how is it possible that within four months RFK Jr. and his international team of scientists will find one or two causes and eliminate the disorder, especially if there is a strong genetic component? It doesn’t take a psychic to see where this is going. By September 2025, RFK Jr. will declare that he has looked behind the curtain at the FDA and CDC and is horrified by what he has found. For decades, researchers have been telling us that vaccines don’t cause autism when in fact they do. We have all been the victim of a vast international conspiracy to hide the truth. And the evildoer, the orchestrator of this conspiracy, has been Big Pharma.
How do we know this? In the late 1990s, a researcher in England published a paper claiming that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine caused autism. Subsequently, 24 separate studies showed that children who received the MMR vaccine were not more likely to develop autism than those who had never received the vaccine. Despite these studies, RFK Jr. continues to believe that this vaccine causes autism. His belief is fixed, immutable, and science-resistant. And now he will “prove” that he was right all along by shoehorning data into a methodologically flawed series of studies that will make any conclusions uninterpretable. Immunization rates will continue to drop. And children will suffer.
If only RFK Jr. was as enthusiastic about stopping a measles epidemic that has already killed two little girls and is raging out of control.
Thanks, Dr. Offit. As a psychologist who has specialized in autism since the 90's and followed the research, I can confirm your explanations. I can also confirm the validity of what this formerly anti-vaxx, courageous mom wrote (link below). She did not vaccinate her child and he was diagnosed with autism despite his unvaccinated status. (He's not the only one yet you never hear anti-vaxxers explain how that could happen). As this mom so aptly describes, "Autism seems as if it occurs at random, and regression is traumatic for parents to witness. People need a reason, because it gives us a sense of control in a chaotic world." I have seen many parents of kids with ASD over the years devastated by various hucksters (e.g., those peddling facilitated communication, various concoctions, etc.). Unfortunately they are a vulnerable group and are easily manipulated by the likes of JFK Jr. But at least some of them come to realize they've been exploited, such as the "Back to the Vax" parent group. As for all the anti-vaxxers who want to bombard me with your misinformation, you can waste your time if you want to, but I'm neither vulnerable nor exploitable so good luck with that.
https://louisvilleky.gov/health-wellness/document/do-vaccines-cause-autism
Google is your friend. The MMR vaccine does not contain aluminum. Human breast milk, however, does. Just sayin