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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Junior has spent years in spreading doubts about safety of vaccines and spreading doubts about them to autism.
Dozens of studies have rejected the principle, but it has still persisted for years. The reason may be a part of the reason that autism has been diagnosed in the last few decades.
Dr. Alan Frances are psychiatrists who led the task force, who created the fourth version of the clinical and statistical manual of mental disorders, who expanded the definition of autism, which he says that may have been played in that upper.
Autism rates have been exploded in recent decades. Can the clinical definition of autism be partially guilty?
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