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Is autism on the rise? Expert fact-checks recent claims

June 9, 2025

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A family medicine physician helps Medical News Today fact-check recent claims about the prevalence of autism and its risk factors. Image credit: Jennifer Bogle/Stocksy.

Recently, there has been increasing awareness about autism diagnoses and their complexity.
At the same time, the United States federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence.
He has claimed that autism cases are on the rise, and that autism has become ‘an epidemic’.
He…

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