For decades, the scientific community worked to dispel a The theory is completely revealed The vaccines cause autism and finally its concentration turns to find real possible reasons.
But now, autistic advocates say they are afraid that if Robert Kennedy Junior is confirmed as Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, he may undermine this. Years From the progress made in canceling the localization of autism and vaccines, at a time when the transfer of precious research funds is converted into a theory of already distorted hundreds of studies around the world. They warn against that Practicing vast Impact on those sitting on the committees and directing a policy.
Some condemned Kennedy’s previous speech on disability, describing it as stigmatization and insult.
Alison, Autism Science Corporation, said it welcomes the exam for the possible causes of autism, but focusing on vaccines may be dangerous on children.
“A new crop will be afraid of parents, who may believe that vaccines can harm their children, and may cause autism, and these parents may obscure vaccines that save life from their children,” said Singer.
She said that “the money requires re -examining what we know does not cause autism, and is directed away from looking at new possible areas for autism. There is a lot that we need to finance when it comes to autism research.”
Kennedy is scheduled to start listening sessions on Wednesday. He is expected to face difficult questions about the wrong information he promoted about public health over the years, including his allegations about vaccines.
Kennedy, who established a non-profit against the opposition and grew up to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world-is a crusade and associated groups Millions of dollars – He has He advanced prominently a false disagreement The vaccines cause autism.
“I think autism comes from vaccines,” Kennedy Assure To Fox News in 2023.
He went on to say that his position is misunderstood; He just wants to test the flag behind them. Critics say that Kennedy is the one who rejects science in front of him.
“Are we? [also] Review the question about whether the land is flat? “This is the stable science,” said MP Kim Sherir, a democratic in Washington who was previously working as a pediatrician. “We have already searched the vaccines. They do not cause autism, but let’s look at another place. In other places, genetics may be. It may be the fact that we are now putting many children under the umbrella of autism who have never fallen under this umbrella. Before … it may be a lot of things, but putting stable flag will only undermine confidence in the vaccines, reduce fortification rates and put all the population at risk.
As President of HHS, Kennedy had a major impact on the direction of health policy in the United States. The number will lead AgenciesIncluding the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Health Institutes. President Donald Trump’s choice of the Center for Disease Control, former Vice Vice Florida David Wildon, Additional concerns are further struggled Because of his previous statements that doubt the safety of the vaccine.
History collide
Kennedy often begins his argument that vaccines cause autism by recycling a narration that children with severe autism do not know when he was growing up, and he does not know any of his time now. It concludes to increase the infection with the spread of childhood vaccines.
“I bet you did not meet anyone with full autism in your age,” Kennedy told PodCaster Joe Rogan In 2023, it is launched in the text program that it uses often in public aspects. “You know, a soccer helmet, at the head, uncomfortable, non -verbal. I mean, I have not met anyone like that in my life, but at the age of my children now, one in every 34 children suffer from autism. complete. ”
However, people with development disabilities The institutional character has been adding decades – In Nazi Germany, worst – Or stay outside the eyes of the public, away from the integrated schools that many public systems are trying to achieve today.
The practice of institutionalization to children with disabilities was Special spread In post -war America, often in bad conditions.
One example of the gap between the general understanding of children with disabilities came in 1965, when Kennedy was about 11 years old. His father, then a member of the American Senate from New York, is the treacherous circumstances in Wiloprk Governmental School. In one of the most Shameful exhibitions In the history of the United States, disabled children living in filth were found, amid mistrust and terrible circumstances, which sparked anger at the country level.
Robert F. said. Kennedy Father at the time of Wiloprook: “I think we are all wrong and I think he has been late for it.”
Zoe Gross, the director of the invitation with the autism self -defense network, noticed that the diagnosis of autism It was still developing In the 1960s. Hold Up Willbroook An example of how to hide development types and other disabilities from society.
If you look at the video clip of the circumstances In Willbroook they were inYou will see the people described by RFK JR. They were lost during his childhood. Gross said: “And you will see where they went, as they were forced to go.”
Ignore
Autism diagnoses increased from around 1 in 150 Children in 2000, to 1 in 36 today. During this period, the definition of those with autism greatly expanded, and the dramatic seizure of the capabilities. It now ranges from individuals who live an independent life, or for individuals who do not care or face serious medical challenges such as seizures.
The researchers point out that there is a strong genetic connection to the complex disorder and said that there is more research needed to identify environmental factors, if any, in it. Autism speaks, one of the largest autistic research organizations in the country, is one group called for More search In the role that is likely to play factors such as exposure to chemicals and the age of parents.
“We know that autism is very capable, and therefore the most needed research is how genes and the environment interact. Singer, from the Autism Science Foundation, said that genetic differences may lead to changes in basic biology, which makes these individuals more resistant or vulnerable to exposure Various “. These exposure can include pores, such as pesticides or plasticles; Pharmaceutical, such as medications; Perhaps social, such as low social and economic status or lack of sufficient medical care.
She added: “Genetics research is mostly before environmental research because we do not have good ways to measure what we are exposed to in the environment.” This needs to be improved. We also need to understand how environmental factors affect the structure of DNA and DNA expression. ”
In Kennedy’s conversation with Rogan in 2023, he stressed that it was the others who ignored scientific studies in this field.
“Everyone will say,” Oh, there is no study that shows autism and vaccines connected. “This is just crazy. As you know, this is people who do not look at science.”
Others say that the re -focus on vaccines as a cause of autism can transform funding from the required research areas. Due to the fear of the last vaccine, some aspects of autism research are backward, including how to help individuals with autism who suffer Whether there is a link Between autism diagnoses and Parkinson’s development later in life, Gross said.
She said: “Our interest is that it is already difficult to direct funding for these preserved topics.” “We do not want to see that the vaccines become a suffocation of financing and strangling this very limited financing that these important questions are really raised.”
Parental concerns about a tie between vaccines and autism increased after a 1998 Andrew Wickfield Study Consider a link between a mmr shot and autism. He later found that Fraudulent and I fell after years. Among the issues, Wickfield failed to reveal financial conflicts in the study.
In the decisive years, fears swept the world of mental disabilities, not only to pay the vaccine frequency but to direct research research towards potential links between vaccines and autism. Defenders say this places society in research -based treatments for autism and interference.
Hundreds of studies It has been done for decades and around the world vaccines that are safe.
These studies have followed volatile theories on what may be in vaccines unsafe. The prevailing hypotheses from blame the measles-lubila vaccine (MMR) has moved to reach the decrease in the preservative thimiros that are used in some vaccines to consider the size of the vaccines that are presented simultaneously. Both Theories He was It was tested and rejected in scientific studies, which included research that compares the occurrence of autism among children who have been vaccinated to Those who did not receive Certain vaccines.
Despite these results, Kennedy supports the theory that the ingredients in the vaccines or the vaccination schedule battery have sparked the height.
In 2023 Podcast interviewKennedy was asked if he believed that any vaccine is effective. He replied: “I think some of the live viruses may avoid more problems than it caused. Then he added:” There is no safe and effective vaccine. “
A Kennedy spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
The language of stigmatism
Trump He suggested himself late last year On NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that in Kennedy’s choice to lead HHS, he wanted him to look at the interesting relationship between vaccines and autism. Trump said previously Fox News – More than once – He personally knew a family “gave birth to a beautiful child” before receiving a “snapshot” of vaccines and then “very fell ill, and now he has autism.”
Among the concerns in the autism community is that the type of language used by both Trump and Kennedy to describe the complex nerve condition is underestimated.
“He uses this belief that vaccines cause autism spread on a very negative stigma of autism, saying, for example, that someone has a vaccine and” his brain has disappeared. ” It means that they have autism. “
Gros, who was with autism, was indicating 2015 statement written by Kennedy Where he compared the vaccination of children with hellocast. He later apologized for his remarks.
“They get the snapshot, that night, they have a fever 103 [degrees]”They go to sleep, and after three months their brain went,” Kennedy said. “This is a Holocaust, what this is doing for our country.”
Gross called it “fear of fear”, saying: “The idea behind making this link is that it is better to die of a toiled cough as a child more than living as a person with autism.”
