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May 7, 2025
Marin Scotten
Dem Governor Launches Plan to Counter RFK Jr.’s Autism Registry
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has a plan to undermine the autism registry RFK Jr. keeps talking about.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
RFK Jr. Wildly Defends Terrifying Idea for Registry of Autistic People
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s idea was so bad that the Department of Health and Human Services walked it back.
April 22, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People
And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.
April 10, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s New Theory on Autism Will Make Your Head Explode
Donald Trump joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in pushing a widely debunked conspiracy.
March 7, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
RFK Jr.’s CDC Launches Study on Vaccines and Autism Conspiracy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax views have officially taken hold at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
February 21, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Latest Health Care Claim Will Make Your Head Spin
Donald Trump pushed a bogus claim about Amish people.
February 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
What Trump Is Really up to With His Make America Healthy Again Order
Donald Trump established a “Make American Healthy Again Commission” via executive order.
January 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
RFK Jr. Secretly Got Rich Off of “Public Health” Efforts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax nonprofit turns out to be just another scam.
December 17, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s the “Most Dangerous” Thing Trump Said in His Press Conference
Donald Trump keeps pushing the false theory that vaccines cause autism.
October 31, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Top Trump Adviser Wants to Cause a Plague
Donald Trump’s transition chief doesn’t think vaccines actually work.
January 7, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Businesses are now actively recruiting autistic people.
February 20, 2015
Bill Gardner
Anti-Vaxxers Are Wrong About Why Autism Has Increased—But Don't Tell Them That
September 11, 2014
Jesse Singal
How Young Can We Start Treating Autism?
June 25, 2014
Jenny Jarvie
Is "Sensory Processing Disorder" a Real Medical Condition?
Thousands of parents say it is. The psychiatric establishment disagrees.
June 5, 2014
Darshak Sanghavi
A Bogus New Autism Study Claims Excessive Manliness Is to Blame
December 31, 2013
Michael Brooks
Eating Bacteria Could Be the Future of Medicine
October 15, 2009
William Deresiewicz
A Geek Grows in Brooklyn
September 29, 2009
Michelle Cottle
Hot New Products for the Parentally Insane!
July 28, 2008
The New Republic
It's Not Easy Being Multifaceted
April 22, 2008
Jonathan Cohn
Three's Company On The Vaccine Controversy

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