NIH director pushes back timeline for RFK Jr.'s autism answers
Source: CBS News
April 22, 2025 / 8:28 PM EDT
The head of the National Institutes of Health now says it could take until next year to get preliminary results from their new studies into autism, marking the latest delay to findings that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had promised by September.
"We're going to get hopefully grants out the door by the end of the summer," NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told reporters Tuesday. "And people will get to work. We'll have a major conference, with updates, within the next year."
Bhattacharya said it should still be considered "a very rapid study by NIH's normal standards," saying that the institute was working to "cut the red tape without cutting the rigor" in launching their new research grants. "It's hard to guarantee when science will make an advance. It depends on, you know, nature has its say," Bhattacharya said.
Kennedy earlier this month pledged that "by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures." In an April 15 statement released by his department, Kennedy said "we expect to begin to have answers by September."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-director-pushes-back-timeline-rfk-jr-autism-answers/

RockCreek
(963 posts)Why do I think that means getting rid of privacy protection, consent, and ethical standards?
Javaman
(63,648 posts)More bullshit and fun house mirrors by the worm brain moron
mdbl
(6,255 posts)
GusBob
(7,874 posts)Have they found the cause of autism? Or the path-physiology ?
There seems to be a bunch of rule outs ( like vaxs ) and a bunch of suggested related stuff.
Is it true 1 in 68 children born end up with a diagnosis of autism?
I think its genetic, but that can be proven , no?
yardwork
(66,311 posts)The many scientists doing legitimate scientific research into autism aren't posting on DU. They're working around the clock answering these questions - and now they're contending with the bullshit disruptions caused by this administration.
However, you are free to do lots of reading in PubMed. There are thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles on autism research. They include numerous studies looking into links to vaccines and other potential causes.
It is a flat out lie that science has ignored this. I don't know if RFK, Jr. is capable of understanding facts, though.
womanofthehills
(9,671 posts)Are posting hundreds of videos online. Videos of their kids being totally normal & often advanced- and then having seizures and regressing often immediately or a day or week after well baby visits.
yardwork
(66,311 posts)womanofthehills
(9,671 posts)Because there now is so much contraction in research studies if you search online. Plus the autism moms say - their observation videos of their kids before & after - (these videos are growing online) need to be taken into account.
yardwork
(66,311 posts)Go to PubMed and read to your heart's content.
Question for you. Why do you believe RFK, Jr.'s lies instead of the decades of peer-reviewed science? There are well-respected autism organizations. I belong to them. Why don't you?
Phoenix61
(18,283 posts)diagnosis from Autism to Autism Spectrum Disorder. When Autism was first recognized as a disorder only those diagnosed currently as Level 3 would have met the criteria for the diagnosis. Aspergers and Level 1 and Level 2 Autism diagnosis would have fallen under something else or not had any diagnosis at all.
womanofthehills
(9,671 posts)In DSM 4 - Aspergers was a separate condition of higher functioning kids than autism kids.
DSM 5 - changed this and put the higher functioning Asperger kids into the same category as the 25% lowest functioning autism kids. So Asbergers became autism.
Phoenix61
(18,283 posts)severe condition than autism.
Walleye
(39,752 posts)My grandmother died of Alzheimers. Its obvious thats what it was, but they didnt call it that back then, they had no name for it. Medicine has made so many advances in the last couple of decades. I hate to see it screwed up like this.
yardwork
(66,311 posts)Musk and RFK, Jr. demolished it.
Now they'll say "surprise! It was all vaccines!"
And by the time their followers realize his wrong they are they'll be gone.
Walleye
(39,752 posts)womanofthehills
(9,671 posts)3 studies of hundreds online
Heavy metals exposure and Alzheimers disease: Underlying mechanisms and advancing therapeutic approaches
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432824003681
Aluminum and its potential contribution to Alzheimer's disease (AD) . https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3986683/
Role of metals in Alzheimer's disease. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34313926/
yardwork
(66,311 posts)The NIH has been finding legitimate research into autism for decades. Musk and RFK, Jr. disrupted all those studies.
Now they claim they're putting them back and "we'll have an answer by September." Science doesn't work that way.
Some bullshit report will be released blaming autism on vaccines. Because that's what RFK, Jr.'s drug-addled brain thinks the answer should be.
This isn't science.
Karasu
(978 posts)nothing more. The outcome was determined before the start. That's the entire reason they're even doing this.
It's all theatrics to "legitimize" the vaccine narrative. Everyone with a brain fucking knows as much.
The problem, however, is that too many people in this country are scientifically illiterate as fuck.
womanofthehills
(9,671 posts)Made by parents of autistic kids - showing their kids before and after well baby visits. Go search autism videos of kids.
NIH funded studies looking for a genetic connection according to some news sites this week. All we need to do is see those studies.
yardwork
(66,311 posts)Subscribe to PubMed and read them all.
creon
(1,493 posts)Vaccines have nothing to do autism.
There was a time when betteheim argued that "bad parenting" caused Autism.
Now, vaccines are accused.
Vaccines have nothing to do with Autism.
yardwork
(66,311 posts)I think it's possible that nanoparticles of plastic might be causing some neurological issues, though.
Of course TrumpCo will not want that studied.
womanofthehills
(9,671 posts)And the dead virus vaccines (unlike live virus vaccines like MMR) - DTaP Hep A, Hep B, Flu, polio, etc need aluminum as an adjuvant to make vaccine work - who knows?? If there is no aluminum you will get no antibodies.
This is concerning- petitions have been submitted about this and Aaron Seri -top vaccine injury lawyer has been discussing this study on social media podcasts.
A team of aluminum experts at Keele University led by Christopher Exley, a Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry for the last 29 years with over 200 published peer reviewed articles regarding aluminum has found that six childhood vaccines contain a statistically significant greater quantity of aluminum adjuvant than is provided for on these products labeling (Pentacel, Havrix, Adacel, Pedvax, Prevnar 13, and Vaqta) while four childhood vaccines contain a statistically significant lower quantity of aluminum adjuvant than is provided for on the labeling for these products (Infanrix, Kinrix, Pediarix,
https://icandecide.org/article/aluminum-in-childhood-vaccines/