RFK Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them and has cut millions in funding for autism research.
Conflicting Priorities: RFK Jr. helps lead an administration that is reversing regulations on pollution and chemicals, including some linked to autism.
Just three weeks earlier, she’d been finalizing her fourth major paper on the topic when Kennedy eliminated her entire division.
Kennedy has also overseen tens of millions of dollars in cuts to federal funding for research on autism, including its environmental causes.
He remains skeptical of the scientists who have been funded by his own agency to study the neurodevelopmental condition.
Hertz-Picciotto, an environmental epidemiologist based at the University of California, Davis, was a pioneer in the search for the causes of autism.
It also began dismantling its Office of Research and Development, which has funded research into the environmental conditions contributing to autism. »