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Monday on the News Hour, the Trump administration invokes wartime powers to deport hundreds of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. The President dismantles Voice of America and the news and information it provided to people in autocratic countries. Plus, despite an increase in autism diagnoses, law enforcement often lacks ...
... 2023, which included a requirement that the department have an outside expert develop a curriculum to train deputies on how to deal with people with autism. As you look back on it, what do you think that the deputies should have done differently? Donna Lou: A big one, I think ...
... 1990s, early 2000s.He is himself a doctor of internal medicine, but he is known here in the controversies around his push for research on autism, and particularly when he was in Congress rejecting studies that debunked the idea that autism could be caused by vaccines. We know now there ...
... charge at CDC who believes the lie that our rigorously tested childhood vaccine schedule is somehow exposing kids to toxic levels of mercury or causing autism." The White House did not issue a statement explaining the withdrawal, and Trump did not address it during a Thursday afternoon press availability. The ...
... our children healthy and strong. As an example, not long ago — and you can't even believe these numbers — one in 10,000 children had autism. One in 10,000, and now it's one in 36. There's something wrong. One in 36. Think of that. So, we're ...
"People still think Elvis is alive,” a frustrated Cassidy responded. He told Bhattacharya any attempt to revisit the debunked issue would deprive funds to study autism's real cause. Some Senators, including Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, and Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, expressed deep frustration ...
... It's come back largely because people have chosen not to vaccinate their children, in part because they're scared of the vaccine, scared that it has safety issues like autism, something that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been promoting loudly and to many people for the last 20 years.
Before the vaccine was introduced in 1963, the U.S. saw some 3 million to 4 million cases per year. Now, it’s usually fewer than 200 in a normal year. There is no link between the vaccine and autism, despite a now-discredited study and health disinformation. Why do ...
Walter Isaacson, who wrote a biography of Musk, told Amna Nawaz back in 2023 that Musk had a difficult childhood, struggling with autism spectrum disorder, being repeatedly bullied, and dealing with an allegedly emotionally abusive father. Walter Isaacson, Author: Those demons, the dark things about being bullied as a kid ...
... to 4 million cases per year. Now, it’s usually fewer than 200 in a normal year. There is no link between the vaccine and autism, despite a now-discredited study and health disinformation.Why do vaccination rates matter? In communities with high vaccination rates — above 95% — diseases like measles ...
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