{"id":938,"date":"2025-04-18T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2025-04-19T01:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T01:32:35","slug":"on-autism-kennedy-turns-against-science-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/on-autism-kennedy-turns-against-science-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"On Autism, Kennedy Turns Against Science and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his first news conference as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 16 ticked off things he thinks kids with autism will never do, including paying taxes, holding a job, and going on a date. Kennedy\u2019s comments go against science and reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This slide presentation first appeared on KFF Health News\u2019 Instagram account. If you enjoyed this story from the KFF Health News social team, follow us on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kffhealthnews\/\">@kffhealthnews<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-autism-kennedy-turns-against-science-and-reality\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his first news conference as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 16 ticked off things he thinks kids with autism will never do, including paying taxes, holding a job, and going on a date. Kennedy\u2019s comments go against science and reality.\u00a0 This slide presentation first appeared on KFF Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}