{"id":41274,"date":"2025-05-12T07:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/rfk-jrs-autism-comments-place-blame-and-shift-research-responsibility-to-parents-critics-say\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T07:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:19:05","slug":"rfk-jrs-autism-comments-place-blame-and-shift-research-responsibility-to-parents-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/rfk-jrs-autism-comments-place-blame-and-shift-research-responsibility-to-parents-critics-say\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr\u2019s autism comments place blame and shift research responsibility to parents, critics say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of US Department of Health told parents to \u2018do their own research\u2019 when deciding to vaccinate their children<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, the US health secretary, has intimated that parents are to blame for their children\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/autism\">autism<\/a>, and that they are responsible for researching every aspect of their children\u2019s lives that could affect their development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to recognize we are doing this to our children, and we need to put an end to it,\u201d Kennedy said at his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/news-conference\/secretary-kennedy-on-autism\/5160723\">press conference<\/a> as health secretary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/12\/rfk-jr-autism-comments-blame-parents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of US Department of Health told parents to \u2018do their own research\u2019 when deciding to vaccinate their children Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, has intimated that parents are to blame for their children\u2019s autism, and that they are responsible for researching every aspect of their children\u2019s lives that could affect their &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr\u2019s autism comments place blame and shift research responsibility to parents, critics say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/rfk-jrs-autism-comments-place-blame-and-shift-research-responsibility-to-parents-critics-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr\u2019s autism comments place blame and shift research responsibility to parents, critics say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}