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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “EPA did a study. Congress said to EPA, what year did the…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 41:01

Your generation. To 1 in every 34 in my kid's generation. So what happened? And it could be. Look, it could be there. EPA did a study. Congress said to EPA, what year did the epidemic start? EPA said it's a red line. It happened 1989. That's when the autism epidemic started. So you have to look at a toxin that became ubiquitous around 1989. And there are a number of things it could be. (41:01–41:11)

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Asserts that an EPA study identified 1989 as the start of the autism epidemic.

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