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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “There is a study from Johns Hopkins on cord blood where they…”

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

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There are 15 rodent studies. Every one of them shows if you give it to the mother, the babies, and particularly the male babies, have profound neurological and behavioral changes. There is a study from Johns Hopkins on cord blood where they divided women into three categories. Those who had the least acidic medif in their cord blood, those who had the most, the ones with the most had 3.6 times the rate of autism in their children. The middle category had 2.2 times. So it's a dose related response. And there are dozens of studies that show the countries that use the most the highest level of autism. (01:13–01:29)

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Asserts a Johns Hopkins study links higher acidic medif in cord blood to increased autism rates.

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