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‘Dangerous,’ ‘anti-science’, ‘dehumanizing’: CT families, officials and experts push back on RFK autism claims, registry
Autism advocates, scientists and senators called Kennedy’s assertions unscientific and alarming, with many in the autism ...
U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Launch National Autism Registry Using Americans’ Private Health Records
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is amassing Americans' private medical records for a new autism study. Data will be collected from ...
Will there be an autism registry? What we know after NIH drops plans for vast data platform
An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...
Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director
"We are not creating an autism registry," a Department of Health and Human Services official said in a statement.
Fake video shows RFK Jr. saying, 'Kids are gayer than ever and they're fat, repulsively fat'
In April 2025, online users discussed a video purportedly showing U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
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Advocates for people with autism have described the idea as 'terrifying'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is working with the National Institutes ...
RFK Jr.’s Cousins Slam His Comments on Autism: ‘People with Autism and Other Forms of Intellectual Disabilities Have Gifts’
"People with autism can and will continue to date, hold jobs, marry, and pay taxes," Anthony K. Shriver and Timothy Shriver ...