NIH prepares to launch new research into autism causes, a Trump priority

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/autism-vaccines-nih-research-trump/

NIH prepares to launch new research into autism causes, a Trump priority
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and other officials are weighing a public competition intended to jump-start research or to pursue a more traditional approach of awarding grants.
April 4, 2025 at 5:51 p.m. EDT
By Dan Diamond

The National Institutes of Health is planning a new, multimillion-dollar research program examining the causes of autism and the spike in U.S. diagnoses, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe in-progress discussions.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, principal deputy director Matthew J. Memoli and other agency officials have discussed a broad agenda to investigate autism spectrum disorders. The effort could involve launching a public competition intended to jump-start research ideas and interest, or a more traditional approach of awarding research grants, the people said. The NIH also may purchase additional data compiled by outside researchers, the people said.

The research plan, which is still being finalized, would focus on understanding the causes behind the rise of childhood autism diagnoses, which have increased more than fourfold in the past two decades and have emerged as a top public health priority of the Trump administration.

It would also delve into an issue that has been complicated by the long-lasting effects of a widely discredited 1998 research study that linked measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines to autism. While the study was retracted — and more than two dozen other studies into MMR vaccines have shown that the immunizations do not increase the risk of autism — about a quarter of Americans continue to mistakenly believe that there is a connection, and President Donald Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some vocal advocacy groups have refused to rule it out.

Public health experts and lawmakers have warned that any new research into autism, if not well-planned and carefully executed, could undercut public health by resurrecting the debunked link between immunizations and autism and further exacerbate the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles.

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COMING SOON: NIH study concludes vaccine causes autism

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1. That fucking piece of shit, RFK Jr is behind this.

Lunatic predator.

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Autism is a mis-wired brain.

And increased numbers of autistic people are largely better diagnosing.

My son was 18 years old and halfway through his senior year of high school when he was diagnosed with Asperger's.

[nolabear]

4. Meanwhile they're destroying the services for people on the spectrum.

It’s all self serving, self indulgent bs.

[Hekate]

5. Have they considered that microplastics are now in every cell of our bodies, including brain cells?

Or that fetuses are marinating in literally uncountable pollutants while floating in their amniotic fluid?

Or is this study fomented by BobK going to come to a predetermined conclusion about vaccines?

Hey-Hey, BobK! How many kids will you kill today? *

*yes, that’s me and anyone who wants to borrow it for their protest sign has my blessing.