As the Food and Drug Administration quietly removed the web page that warned parents about fake autism cures, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has nominated people who have promoted some of these same cures.
It’s part of the Health and Human Services secretary’s larger efforts to reorient policy toward discovering the origins of a supposed autism “epidemic” and “fighting” a condition that he insists “destroys families.” His wave of attacks come to fulfill campaign promises he has long made, even if they lack the backing of the wider scientific community.
