Health officials in Trump administration were accused of fueling ‘crisis of public trust’ over autism and vaccines

Misinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a recently released report.

Experts say that officials in the past year have focused intently on both vaccines and autism, including efforts to connect autism to the use of acetaminophen (frequently sold as Tylenol) during pregnancy, despite growing evidence of no link, and replacing all members of the federal autism committee with advisers who have anti-vaccine and pseudoscientific histories.

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    Yeah, he absolutely is, as if my life hadn’t been miserable enough already being misunderstood all the time, misunderstanding myself, not even realizing I had a problem until I was an adult because of lack of information in my youth. It’s absolutely disgusting, there is no excuse for it whatsoever, he knows it’s all lies, it’s evil through and through.

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      I’m autistic. I’m also comfortably retired with a wife, two cats, a house, and a Honda Accord. I’m not dependent on anyone. And now I actually have to have real concerns that I may get a late night visit from the Mental Normality Police.

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        Well done :) Yes, I really don’t know where they are going with this, if this is some more market manipulation, if they actually know the cause and they are trying to pin it on something else, if they believe we are a threat, who knows. I have been hitting the exercise bike pretty hard tho getting in better shape just in case lol. I honestly believe if people just took some time to understand and work with neurodiverse people this could be a much better world, give us a little to work with and we will go to town with it, just have a little faith in us and we will pay you back 1000x every time.