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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “In 1970, the biggest epidemiological study in history was…”

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

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I'm looking forward to that day because there's something wrong when you see the kind of numbers that you have today versus 20 years ago. And those numbers. What are those numbers? In 1970, the biggest epidemiological study in history was done in Wisconsin. They looked at 900,000 children and they were looking for autism. They knew what it looked like and they were very, very precise about it. And they found an incident rate of 0.7. In other words, less than 1 for every 10,000 children today. (00:44–00:57)

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Asserts that the largest epidemiological study in history was conducted in Wisconsin in 1970, involving 900,000 children.

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