U.S. Health Department to Analyze Medical Data to Study Autism

WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a program Wednesday that will analyze Medicaid and Medicare data to help study autism.

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will enter a data-sharing agreement to help with the research.

“We’re using this partnership to uncover the root causes of autism and other chronic diseases,” Kennedy said in a statement.

Kennedy emphasized that sensitive health information will be protected.

Autism is a neurological and development disorder that has skyrocketed in recent decades. Many people, including Kennedy, have speculated on a link between autism and the rise in required childhood vaccines.

That speculation has only intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, when the public was assured by oversight agencies and mainstream media that the COVID vaccines were safe and effective, which proved to be false.

Kennedy has once again been attacked by the media for his efforts to study autism with this program. Though no one has been able to definitively conclude what is causing autism, the media seems certain that it couldn’t possibly be vaccines.

If vaccines aren’t the source of autism, studies like this could help prove that and determine what is causing this alarming rise. 

If vaccines are proven to be the cause, that would obviously help turn the tide in the fight against autism.

Either way, studies like this should only be beneficial to the public.

The fact that some members of the media are attacking it is troubling, and it makes one wonder if they’re more concerned about public health or the business of their biggest advertisers, pharmaceutical companies.