He attributed the rise in autism rates to environmental toxins and said the HHS would commission studies in the next two to three weeks to find the toxin at large. “This is coming from an environmental toxin, and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin into our air, our water, our medicines, our food,” RFK Jr. stated.
RFK Jr. said the studies would be supported by federal grant funding to university researchers. “People will know they can research and follow the science no matter what it says, without any
kind of fear that can be censored and they're going to be gaslighted that they're going to be silenced, they're going to be defunded, de-licensed, and we're going to give them permission to do this research," he told reporters Wednesday.