NIH director pushes back timeline for RFK Jr.'s autism answers

[BumRushDaShow]

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]

1. "'cut the red tape without cutting the rigor'"

Why do I think that means getting rid of privacy protection, consent, and ethical standards?

[Javaman]

2. Or never.

More bullshit and fun house mirrors by the worm brain moron

[mdbl]

3. Of course let's disregard the numerous studies already conducted

[GusBob]

6. So the studies already conducted

Have they found the cause of autism? Or the path-physiology ?

There seems to be a bunch of rule outs ( like vax’s ) and a bunch of suggested related stuff.

Is it true 1 in 68 children born end up with a diagnosis of autism?

I think it’s genetic, but that can be proven , no?

[yardwork]

10. Why don't you do your own research, GusBob?

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]

16. The autism moms - in MAHA

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]

20. And that is nonsense that has been debunked.

[womanofthehills]

15. We need to be able to read the studies

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]

21. The studies are open to anyone to read.

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]

4. What's caused the epidemic is a broadening of the

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. Asperger’s and Level 1 and Level 2 Autism diagnosis would have fallen under something else or not had any diagnosis at all.

[womanofthehills]

18. The diagnosis changed from DSM 4 to DSM 5

In DSM 4 - Asperger’s 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]

24. I think you meant the top 25% as Asperger's is a less

severe condition than autism.

[Walleye]

5. Kennedy has his head up his ass. Just because we didn't have names for the conditions it doesn't mean they didn't exist.

My grandmother died of Alzheimer’s. It’s obvious that’s what it was, but they didn’t 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]

8. NIH-funded scientists were learning a lot about Alzheimer's disease.

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]

12. Yep, people work hard and study this stuff all their lives, there's no room for dilettantes

[womanofthehills]

17. There are hundreds of studies posted online of metal in the brains of those with Alzheimer's

3 studies of hundreds online

“ Heavy metals exposure and Alzheimer’s 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]

7. What absolute nonsense.

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]

14. Yes, it isn't science, and it's ludicrous that they're even pretending it is. It's pushing RW conspiracy theories and

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]

19. The contradiction is the hundreds of videos online

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]

22. There are thousands of legitimate autism studies.

Subscribe to PubMed and read them all.

[creon]

9. Vaccines

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]

11. The potential links have been studied and none found.

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]

23. Well if hundreds of online studies connect aluminum to Alzheimer's

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/

[Martin68]

13. Kennedy's statements on autism have all been entirely pulled out of his ass.