The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has assured that the autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) can be prevented and promised to find the “environmental toxin” that is behind the increase of rates of this “epidemic” in the country. “Genes do not cause epidemics. They can generate vulnerability. Environmental toxin is needed,” Kennedy said, without providing scientific evidence or exhibitions, in statements collected by NBC News. Scientific evidence The experts attribute this rise to a greater awareness and surveillance of the disorder, but Kennedy denies it Kennedy’s speech contradicts a study published yesterday by the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC, in English), a government agency that found an increase in child autism rates in the US Awareness and surveillance of the disorder, Kennedy dismissed these evidence and blamed environmental factors of this “preventable disease.” “We know that it is an environmental exposure. It has to be,” he insisted. Lee is also why the next three weeks will announce a series of studies aimed at identifying the “environmental toxins” to which it responsible for the increase in cases of child autism in the country. “We know what the historical figures are and we know what the current figures are, and it is time for everyone to stop attributing this to this ideology of epidemic denialism,” Kennedy said.
