The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a “massive testing and research effort” that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said will determine the cause of rising childhood autism rates in the country.

During a meeting of President Trump’s Cabinet on Thursday, Kennedy said the process will involve “hundreds of scientists around the world” and answers will come this fall.

"By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic," Kennedy said. "And we'll be able to eliminate those exposures."

Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who helped found one of the most........

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