{"id":25801,"date":"2025-04-11T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25801"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:23:43","slug":"experts-doubt-kennedys-timetable-for-finding-the-cause-of-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25801","title":{"rendered":"Experts Doubt Kennedy\u2019s Timetable for Finding the Cause of Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The nation\u2019s health secretary announced that he planned to invite scientists to provide answers by September, but specialists consider that target date unrealistic.<\/p>\n

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation\u2019s health secretary, pledged on Thursday to seek out experts globally to discover the reasons for the increasing rates of autism in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve launched a massive testing and research effort that\u2019s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,\u201d Mr. Kennedy announced at a cabinet meeting held by President Trump. \u201cBy September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we\u2019ll be able to eliminate those exposures.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be no bigger news conference than that,\u201d Mr. Trump replied.<\/p>\n

But scientists who have worked for decades to find a cause greeted Mr. Kennedy\u2019s predicted timeline with skepticism.<\/p>\n

They said that a single answer would be hard to identify in a field of possible contributors including pesticides, air pollution and maternal diabetes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician and expert on environmental toxins, pointed to the current mass layoffs and cutbacks for research at Mr. Kennedy\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services as one reason for doubting such quick progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven that a great deal of research on autism and other pediatric diseases in hospitals and medical schools is currently coming to a halt because of federal funding cuts from H.H.S.,\u201d he said, \u201cit is very difficult for me to imagine what profound scientific breakthrough could be achieved between now and September.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The nation\u2019s health secretary announced that he planned to invite scientists to provide answers by September, but specialists consider that target date unrealistic.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation\u2019s health secretary, pledged on Thursday to seek out experts globally to discover the reasons for the increasing rates of autism in the United States.\u201cWe\u2019ve launched a massive testing and research effort that\u2019s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,\u201d Mr. Kennedy announced at a cabinet meeting held by President Trump. \u201cBy September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we\u2019ll be able to eliminate those exposures.\u201d\u201cThere will be no bigger news conference than that,\u201d Mr. Trump replied.But scientists who have worked for decades to find a cause greeted Mr. Kennedy\u2019s predicted timeline with skepticism.They said that a single answer would be hard to identify in a field of possible contributors including pesticides, air pollution and maternal diabetes.Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician and expert on environmental toxins, pointed to the current mass layoffs and cutbacks for research at Mr. Kennedy\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services as one reason for doubting such quick progress.\u201cGiven that a great deal of research on autism and other pediatric diseases in hospitals and medical schools is currently coming to a halt because of federal funding cuts from H.H.S.,\u201d he said, \u201cit is very difficult for me to imagine what profound scientific breakthrough could be achieved between now and September.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25803,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25804,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801\/revisions\/25804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}