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My Son Is Not an Epidemic: A Father Responds to RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Autism Rhetoric
Variety's awards editor responds to RFK's autism speech: "My son is not an epidemic."
Which is why, nearly eight years later, hearing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — now the secretary of Health and Human Services — stand at a podium and describe children like my son as part of an “autism epidemic,” allegedly caused by unnamed “environmental toxins,” feels like whiplash. Kennedy stood before the cameras and declared that children like Noah “will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never use a toilet unassisted.” He called autism “a preventable disease” and promised a lightning-fast investigation to root out its so-called environmental causes. The absolutely adoring man from Georgia who has a special love for “Game of Thrones,” reads books, and has become a social media sensation because the world is in awe of the respect he showed while on a date with the equally amazing Georgie.
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