Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the agency will launch a series of new studies aimed at finding the “environmental toxins” he believes are causing increasing rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

“This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin in our air, our water, our medicines, our food,” Kennedy said during a Wednesday press conference on a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder.

“It’s to their benefit to normalize it, to say, 'Oh this is all normal, it’s always been there.'”

The CDC report, released Tuesday, found that 1 in 31 children in the United States were........

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