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BumRushDaShow

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Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:42 AM Apr 2025

NIH director pushes back timeline for RFK Jr.'s autism answers [View all]

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/

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"'cut the red tape without cutting the rigor'" RockCreek Apr 2025 #1
Or never. Javaman Apr 2025 #2
Of course let's disregard the numerous studies already conducted mdbl Apr 2025 #3
So the studies already conducted GusBob Apr 2025 #6
Why don't you do your own research, GusBob? yardwork Apr 2025 #10
The autism moms - in MAHA womanofthehills Apr 2025 #16
And that is nonsense that has been debunked. yardwork Apr 2025 #20
We need to be able to read the studies womanofthehills Apr 2025 #15
The studies are open to anyone to read. yardwork Apr 2025 #21
What's caused the epidemic is a broadening of the Phoenix61 Apr 2025 #4
The diagnosis changed from DSM 4 to DSM 5 womanofthehills Apr 2025 #18
I think you meant the top 25% as Asperger's is a less Phoenix61 Apr 2025 #24
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. Walleye Apr 2025 #5
NIH-funded scientists were learning a lot about Alzheimer's disease. yardwork Apr 2025 #8
Yep, people work hard and study this stuff all their lives, there's no room for dilettantes Walleye Apr 2025 #12
There are hundreds of studies posted online of metal in the brains of those with Alzheimer's womanofthehills Apr 2025 #17
What absolute nonsense. yardwork Apr 2025 #7
Yes, it isn't science, and it's ludicrous that they're even pretending it is. It's pushing RW conspiracy theories and Karasu Apr 2025 #14
The contradiction is the hundreds of videos online womanofthehills Apr 2025 #19
There are thousands of legitimate autism studies. yardwork Apr 2025 #22
Vaccines creon Apr 2025 #9
The potential links have been studied and none found. yardwork Apr 2025 #11
Well if hundreds of online studies connect aluminum to Alzheimer's womanofthehills Apr 2025 #23
Kennedy's statements on autism have all been entirely pulled out of his ass. Martin68 Apr 2025 #13
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