Kennedy, previously an environmental lawyer, has long espoused the idea that vaccines cause autism spectrum disorder, a notion that has repeatedly been debunked.

“We're finding interventions, certain interventions now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism,” Kennedy told the president Tuesday. “And we're going to be able to address those in September.”

Trump spoke about the fact that in the past, one in 10,000 children received a diagnosis, but now, he said, the latest numbers show as many as 1 in 31 children between the ages of 4 and 8 years old have a diagnosis of ASD.

But HHS’s list shows that it terminated grants for research projects worth $6.9 million in total.

Some of the grants terminated included those where money was already spent while withholding money for future disbursement, labeled “ Unliquidated Obligations (As of Termination).” As of Tuesday, $5.4 million of grant money related to autism had already been spent, essentially rendering the grants wasted.

One the grants terminated that was listed was entitled “High-throughput modeling of autism risk genes using zebrafish.”

The grant’s public health relevance statement said that it would use zebrafish as a model to “to study the effects of a large number of recently-identified ASD risk genes on brain development and behavior” with the goal of “understanding of why mutations in specific genes result in ASD and may ultimately lead to novel therapies.”

But contacted for comment, David Aaron Prober, the principal investigator and a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology, told The Independent that was not true. When asked why the department would say that, he said he did not know why.

In addition, two terminated grants would have focused on the brain development of autistic children. The Independent reached out to James Christopher Edgar, a professor of radiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

He repeated the notion when he ran for president in 2024, first as a Democrat challenging Joe Biden, then as an independent before he endorsed Trump a year ago this month.

Trump for his part has also espoused the idea that vaccines play a role in autism.

These are not the first grants related to autism that the department terminated. Earlier this year, The Independent reported how it terminated a grant for a program to suicide interventions for sexual and gender minority autistic people.

>>1430049
Well you see they had to cut that research because it would've proved them wrong.

There are autists on this board right now who voted for this.

I love how autism, just like homosexuality, is clearly defined as a disease, but it can't be questioned, criticized, or have any research done on it

>>1430049
The Autism Spectrum and its consequences have been a disaster for those who live with a condition under its umbrella. Used to be the guy who couldn't communicate without self-harm and the mostly-functional weirdo who's obsessed with trains had different diagnoses. Now they are suffering the 'same' condition, and retards like RFK can't seem to get their heads around how 'catching milder and milder cases of Asperger's Syndrome' is not the same as 'the number of non-verbal retards is spiking'.

>>1430173
The problem is that people are so fucking stupid that they don't know what spectrum means.

>>1430108
Source?

>>1430108
there is a ton of research on it, and Trump and RFKjr are cutting the funding for it.

You voted for this so quit bitching about it.

>>1430183
"Spek-trom? Iddnt that what I pay to make the Internet?"

>>1430108
>is clearly defined as a disease
It isn't. Seek help for your brain damage.

>>1430350
Trump just defunded the help.

>>1430349
SAAAR!

>>1430342
You're a faggot. That's my source
>>1430350
Homosexuality was always a mental illness and it was only removed from the DSM because of jews

>>1430375
Careful Anon you're going to end up on the antisemitism deportation list