Republican senator blames Trump administration policies for measles deaths in Pennsylvania

Health committee chair Bill Cassidy said fatal outbreak of disease is a ‘terrible legacy’ for Trump administration…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/republican-senator-bill-cassidy-blames-trump-administration-measles-deaths-pennsylvania

 

‘Aggressive’ Medicaid crackdowns will hurt children with autism, providers warn - POLITICO

“Yes, there were bad apples, and, absolutely, we agree there should be oversight,” said Holly Creamer, senior clinical director at Heartland ABA, an autism therapy provider in Nebraska. “The oversight should not equate to taking services away from kids and families who need it.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/10/medicaid-fraud-oz-autism-therapy-01070514

 

Scientists map the interactions of key proteins linked with profound autism : NPR

After more than a decade, UCSF scientists have mapped around 100 varied genes associated with profound autism to a smaller set of biological pathways, offering a promising path for developing drugs...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/27/nx-s1-5944507/scientists-map-the-interactions-of-key-proteins-linked-with-profound-autism

Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively

Trump has a long record of anti-vaccine statements, but the White House recently put a hold on vaccine changes after polling indicated they were a losing issue in the midterm elections...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/trump-rfk-jr-cutting-vaccines

 

Arkansas Knew This Private School Harmed Students but Kept Sending Funds — ProPublica

Private School Abuse: At an Arkansas school, a boy was hit by the school’s founder and attacked by classmates in a group session the founder led, prompting a complaint and her arrest. 

State Money Still Flows: Despite a jail term for the school’s founder, The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain continues to operate and Arkansas still sends it public funds. 

Unregulated and Growing: By design, private schools get little oversight in Arkansas even as new opportunities to receive state money have spurred a boom in openings since 2023...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-private-schools-vouchers-delta-institute-developing-brain-autism-harm

 

Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr

Profoundly stressed parents are being wooed to the clinics with promises that a high-dose infusion of umbilical cord stem cells can lead to dramatic improvements in their children’s ability to speak, socialise, or avoid aggressive or self-harming behaviour. Yet there is no scientific evidence that the procedure works – the most comprehensive clinical trial staged so far, a placebo experiment conducted by Duke University, found insignificant benefits for most of the 180 children tested. 

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directly cautions parents that if they are being offered stem cell treatments outside an approved clinical trial, “you are likely being deceived and offered a product illegally”...

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/12/autism-stem-cell-infusions-rfk-jr

 

HHS Refuses to Say What an Anti-Vaccine Activist Is Doing at the Agency – Mother Jones

Geier and his late father Mark, a physician who eventually lost his license, spent years presenting themselves as experts on alleged vaccine injuries and pursuing discredited and dangerous “treatments” for autism in children, including Lupron, a drug that inhibits testosterone production and is used to chemically castrate sex offenders.

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/david-geier-hhs-vaccines/ 

HHS Refuses to Say What an Anti-Vaccine Activist Is Doing at the Agency – Mother Jones

Geier and his late father Mark, a physician who eventually lost his license, spent years presenting themselves as experts on alleged vaccine injuries and pursuing discredited and dangerous “treatments” for autism in children, including Lupron, a drug that inhibits testosterone production and is used to chemically castrate sex offenders…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/david-geier-hhs-vaccines/

 

RFK Jr believes that the acetaminophen-autism study was garbage. #autism...

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1r0WCpjUnwU

Taking Tylenol during pregnancy has no link to autism, new study finds

Trump has pushed unfounded claims of Tylenol use in pregnancy being tied to ‘a very increased risk of autism’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/13/tylenol-acetaminophen-pregnancy-no-link-autism-latest-study

Seven-year-old Canadian girl with autism and mother detained by ICE in Texas

"She has a social security card. She has a functional visa. That's good until 2030, so I don't understand why they're stopping her and detaining her," she said… 

"This really just illustrates the cruelty of the US system. Basically, people are being kidnapped and thrown into detention in abusive, inhumane, unsafe conditions."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/seven-year-old-canadian-girl-with-autism-and-mother-detained-by-ice-in-texas

 

FDA backs away from RFK Jr.’s claims about drug’s promise for autism patients - POLITICO

The Food and Drug Administration does not have sufficient evidence to back the use of the generic drug leucovorin for treating children with autism, two senior agency officials told reporters Monday...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/10/fda-backs-away-from-rfk-jr-s-claims-about-drugs-promise-for-autism-patients-00820221 

 

Trump telling pregnant women not to take Tylenol may have negative effects

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/86aLSAnSjVI

 

RFK Jr.’s FDA No Longer Warns Against Ineffective, Potentially Dangerous Autism Treatments — ProPublica

The warning on the government website was stark. Some products and remedies claiming to treat or cure autism are being marketed deceptively and can be harmful. Among them: chelating agents, hyperbaric oxygen therapies, chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk. 

Now that advisory is gone...

https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning 

 

Mental Gymnastics On Full Display

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y7STj3aPW4s

 

Did we find the cause of autism? #autism #research #doctor

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/77xDpGSm0V8

 

Study debunks Trump claim that paracetamol / Tylenol causes autism

Taking Tylenol drug in pregnancy does not raise chances of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability, 'gold standard' review finds…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/16/study-debunks-trump-claim-paracetamol-causes-autism-pregnancy

 

Amid Confusing CDC Guidance, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy — ProPublica

A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC's decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women...

https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-pregnancy-risk-autism-study-cdc 

 

CDC promotes false vaccines-autism link in stunning shift under RFK Jr. - The Washington Post

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its website to contradict the long-settled scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, shocking career scientists, delighting anti-vaccine activists, drawing a rebuke from a key Republican senator and sparking an uproar among medical professionals and autism advocates who questioned whether the agency's credibility is now gone. 

The agency's website on vaccines and autism, updated Wednesday, now makes several false claims about a connection, echoing rhetoric from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a lengthy history of disparaging vaccines and linking them to autism…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/20/cdc-vaccines-autism-website-change/

No link between paracetamol in pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children, review finds

A wide-ranging review into paracetamol use by pregnant women has found no convincing link between the common painkiller and the chances of children being diagnosed with autism and ADHD. 

 Publication of the work was fast-tracked to provide prospective mothers and their doctors with reliable information after the Trump administration urged pregnant women to avoid paracetamol – also known as acetaminophen or Tylenol – claiming it was contributing to rising rates of autism...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/10/no-link-between-paracetamol-tylenol-in-pregnancy-and-autism-or-adhd-in-children-review-finds