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Trump says autism ‘has to be artificially induced’
- On May 22, 2025, President Donald Trump suggested at a White House event that external or man-made factors could be responsible for the increasing rates of autism in the United States.
- Trump linked the increase from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31 to outside causes, although the 1 in 10,000 baseline is unclear and not supported by CDC data.
- His remarks coincided with a 69-page report supervised by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That criticized the US food supply’s heavy use of artificial additives and urged scrutiny of vaccines, pesticides, and additives.
- A new CDC analysis indicates that autism rates in the US have risen from 1 in 36 children to 1 in 31, a change partly attributed to updated diagnostic standards and better screening, challenging Trump’s previously cited figures.
- Medical experts warn these claims support debunked conspiracy theories and emphasize no scientific evidence links vaccines or additives to autism or related disorders.
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Trump says autism ‘has to be artificially induced’
(The Hill) — President Trump on Thursday said that autism must not occur naturally, citing figures inflating the spike in autism and suggesting the administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission could provide answers. “When you hear 10,000, it was one in 10,000, and now it's one in 31 for autism, I think that's just a terrible thing. It has to be something on the outside, has to be artificially induced, has to be," Trump said at a…
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