US President Donald Trump (R) listens as US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN Staff Blake Wolf 12:47 PM – Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed that his agency is preparing to make an announcement next month regarding the study he introduced in April to fully examine the “interventions” that “clearly, almost certainly” cause autism, he announced.
He is referring to the forthcoming initiative by the HHS to investigate potential environmental and societal factors contributing to the rising prevalence of autism. The initiative aims to identify and mitigate exposures.
Kennedy Jr. provided the update during a recent Cabinet meeting, following President Donald Trump’s request for an update on the HHS’s autism research.
“Autism is such a tremendous horror show – what’s happening in our country and some of the countries,” Trump asked Kennedy Jr. “How are you doing on that?”
“We will have announcements as promised in September,” Kennedy Jr. responded. “We’re finding interventions, certain interventions now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism. And we’re going to be able to address those in September.”
Trump responded: “There has to be something artificially causing this, meaning a drug or something. And I know you’re looking very strongly at different things, and I hope you can come out with that as soon as possible.”
Kennedy Jr. previously announced in April that he would spearhead a “series of new studies to identify precisely what the environmental toxins are that are causing it.”
At the time, he emphasized that the most extreme cases of autism are “destroy[ing] families.”
“These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” the HHS secretary previously stated.
“This is coming from an environmental toxin, and somebody made it and put that environmental toxin into our air or water or medicines or food,” Kennedy Jr. added.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), autism rates have skyrocketed compared to just a few decades ago.
Currently, 1 in 31 children has been diagnosed with autism in the United States, along with 1 in 45 adults. These figures represent a major uptick in autism rates compared to the 1 in 150 rate the United States held decades ago.
Kennedy Jr. expressed that he is looking forward to announcing the identified links, “because there’s something wrong when you see the kind of numbers that you have today versus 20 years ago.”
However, some CDC researchers contend that the apparent rise in autism prevalence primarily reflects improvements in healthcare officials’ ability to recognize and diagnose the condition, rather than an actual increase in its occurrence. Nonetheless, this explanation has been labeled as medical “gaslighting” by some parents of autistic children.
Kennedy also appeared to challenge this point by referencing a 1970 Wisconsin study, which he described as “the biggest epidemiological study in history,” in which researchers reportedly conducted a detailed search for autism and found an incidence rate of 0.7 per 10,000 children.
“Today, our most recent numbers are 1 in every 31 kids. It’s probably actually much worse than that, because California, which has the best collection system, is reporting 1 out of every 19 American children has autism, and 1 in every 12.5 boys. So it’s gone from one, less than 1 in 10,000 in 1970, to 1 in 12.5 boys today.”
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“We’re finding certain interventions that are almost certainly causing autism.”
“We will have announcements, as promised, in September.”
