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Facing The Autism Crisis: RFK Jr. Is Right, And Sugarcoating The Facts Won’t Save Our Kids
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has once again broken people’s brains. This time, for expressing what should be a basic, bipartisan concern: that we ought to care about the apparent autism epidemic in America.
By Jaimee Marshall5 min read
Where autism diagnoses used to represent 1 in 10,000 kids in the 1960s and 1970s, rates have steadily increased, reaching 1 in 150 by 2000. Just two years ago, it was 1 in 36. Today, 1 in 31 eight year olds have autism. For boys, the odds are even greater, at 1 in 20.