Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

I worked there every weekend when I was a kid as a hugger, a coach from when I was eight years old. It was called Camp Driver then. We changed it in 1968 to Special Olympics. Because of my family's immersion, part of our DNA is serving the community of people with intellectual disabilities.

I spent 200 hours during my high school years at Wassaic Home for the Retarded in upstate New York as a helper. I never saw a case of full-blown autism. You know, people back then, you had a quirky uncle or somebody who didn't have social skills. But full-blown autism, we never saw it. We didn't see it in Special Olympics.

I spent 200 hours during my high school years at Wassaic Home for the Retarded in upstate New York as a helper. I never saw a case of full-blown autism. You know, people back then, you had a quirky uncle or somebody who didn't have social skills. But full-blown autism, we never saw it. We didn't see it in Special Olympics.

I spent 200 hours during my high school years at Wassaic Home for the Retarded in upstate New York as a helper. I never saw a case of full-blown autism. You know, people back then, you had a quirky uncle or somebody who didn't have social skills. But full-blown autism, we never saw it. We didn't see it in Special Olympics.

We prided ourselves on being able to accommodate every child, no matter how... debilitating their disability. So even children who are functionally vegetative, we could put them on a platform and have them teach them to push beanbag off onto the ground and people would cheer for them and make it a good event.

We prided ourselves on being able to accommodate every child, no matter how... debilitating their disability. So even children who are functionally vegetative, we could put them on a platform and have them teach them to push beanbag off onto the ground and people would cheer for them and make it a good event.

We prided ourselves on being able to accommodate every child, no matter how... debilitating their disability. So even children who are functionally vegetative, we could put them on a platform and have them teach them to push beanbag off onto the ground and people would cheer for them and make it a good event.

The kids today, these kids that we're seeing with autism that are non-verbal, non-toilet trained, screaming, biting, headbanging, violent, Toe walking, stemming. We never saw kids like that in the 60s and 70s. Today, to this day, I have never seen somebody my age, 68 years old, who has full blown autism. Where are they?

The kids today, these kids that we're seeing with autism that are non-verbal, non-toilet trained, screaming, biting, headbanging, violent, Toe walking, stemming. We never saw kids like that in the 60s and 70s. Today, to this day, I have never seen somebody my age, 68 years old, who has full blown autism. Where are they?

The kids today, these kids that we're seeing with autism that are non-verbal, non-toilet trained, screaming, biting, headbanging, violent, Toe walking, stemming. We never saw kids like that in the 60s and 70s. Today, to this day, I have never seen somebody my age, 68 years old, who has full blown autism. Where are they?

There's actually a doctor out there who has made that list because you have to... What happened is Congress said to EPA, and by the way, there are many, many studies, including the MIND Institute at UC Davis commissioned by the California legislature, to answer the very question that you just asked, could this be changing diagnostic criteria? Could it be an expanded knowledge of diagnosis?

There's actually a doctor out there who has made that list because you have to... What happened is Congress said to EPA, and by the way, there are many, many studies, including the MIND Institute at UC Davis commissioned by the California legislature, to answer the very question that you just asked, could this be changing diagnostic criteria? Could it be an expanded knowledge of diagnosis?

There's actually a doctor out there who has made that list because you have to... What happened is Congress said to EPA, and by the way, there are many, many studies, including the MIND Institute at UC Davis commissioned by the California legislature, to answer the very question that you just asked, could this be changing diagnostic criteria? Could it be an expanded knowledge of diagnosis?

The answer they've said persistently one after the other is no. Whoever told you that from the industry knows that this is true.

The answer they've said persistently one after the other is no. Whoever told you that from the industry knows that this is true.

The answer they've said persistently one after the other is no. Whoever told you that from the industry knows that this is true.

Exactly. So here's what Congress said. Congress said to EPA, And EPA is not a public health agency. It's not part of HHS. All the other ones are NIH, CDC, and FDA. And they're all in the pocket of pharma. But EPA is in the pocket of the oil industry. But they don't care about pharma. They said, if Congress said to EPA, tell us what year the autism epidemic began.

Exactly. So here's what Congress said. Congress said to EPA, And EPA is not a public health agency. It's not part of HHS. All the other ones are NIH, CDC, and FDA. And they're all in the pocket of pharma. But EPA is in the pocket of the oil industry. But they don't care about pharma. They said, if Congress said to EPA, tell us what year the autism epidemic began.

Exactly. So here's what Congress said. Congress said to EPA, And EPA is not a public health agency. It's not part of HHS. All the other ones are NIH, CDC, and FDA. And they're all in the pocket of pharma. But EPA is in the pocket of the oil industry. But they don't care about pharma. They said, if Congress said to EPA, tell us what year the autism epidemic began.

And the EPA scientists came back and said, it's a red line 1989. What happened in 1989, as you pointed out, we passed the Vaccine Act in 1986. We gave immunity from liability to all the companies. It was a gold rush because suddenly the biggest cost of producing pharmaceuticals and marketing pharmaceuticals, which is downstream liabilities, had been eliminated.