The United States government will identify the cause of autism by September this year, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday.

“At your direction, we are going to know by September. We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” Kennedy said at a meeting of President Donald Trump’s cabinet.

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    3 days ago

    Kennedy has long promoted a debunked link between vaccines and autism despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

    “We’re going to look at vaccines,” Kennedy later told Fox News.

    Fixed. He’ll just blame it on vaccines.