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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attributed increasing autism rates to environmental toxins. Autism researchers told PolitiFact that lacks evidence and omits other important factors such as growing awareness that help explain the increase.

A directive in January from the National Institutes of Health aimed to reduce funding for many of the essential costs that make medical studies possible. Even though a judge has halted the policy, scientists and advocates say the threat to critical . ...