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Margaret Manto
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Science and Health Policy Reporter, NOTUS
Washington
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By Margaret Manto Verified| NOTUS Verified Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed on Wednesday to definitively identify what’s causing a rise in autism — and said the culprit must be environmental in origin, not genetic. “Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said at a press conference centered on autism rates.
By Margaret Manto Verified| NOTUS Verified Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly said that he’s not anti-vaccine and is taking a “pro-safety” approach as Health and Human Services secretary. “We encourage people to get the measles vaccine,” he told CBS in an interview broadcast Wednesday, while adding the government shouldn’t “mandate” it. But the broader changes Kennedy has made since taking over the sprawling health department have followed a different, familiar playbook: the one spearheaded by his old vaccine-skeptical organization.
By Margaret Manto Verified| NOTUS Verified Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed on Wednesday to definitively identify what’s causing a rise in autism — and said the culprit must be environmental in origin, not genetic. “Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said at a press conference centered on autism rates.
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NOTUS
NOTUS is a new publication from The Allbritton Journalism Institute. We're nonprofit. We're nonpartisan. And while others will tell you what's happening or what you should think about it, we're focused on bigger questions: Why? Why is Washington the way it is? And what drives the people who make it so? We cover government, politics, and campaigns with the fresh eyes of newcomers and the expertise of veterans. And we call it like we see it, no matter whose narrative it fits or how many clicks it will get.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Founded: 2024