Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive studies to identify any environmental factors that may cause the developmental disorder.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Overall, the autism is increasing in prevalence at an alarming rate.
00:16This is a preventable disease.
00:18We know it's an environmental exposure.
00:20It has to be.
00:21Genes do not cause epidemics.
00:23They can provide a vulnerability.
00:26You need an environmental toxin.
00:28This is an individual tragedy as well.
00:32Autism destroys families.
00:35More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which are children.
00:39These are children who should not be suffering like this.
00:44These are kids who, many of them, were fully functional and regressed because of some environmental
00:51exposure into autism when they were two years old.
00:56These are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball,
01:05they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date.
01:09Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.
01:14And we have to recognize we are doing this to our children.
01:17We're going to follow this science no matter what it says and we will have some of the answers
01:24by September.
01:25Warszawa
01:27...
01:28...
01:31...
01:32...
01:34...
01:36...