Dissecting The Rise Of Autism Diagnoses in America

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated the country is facing an "autism epidemic," — a concern he says immense testing and research efforts are being dedicated to understanding why 1 in 31 people were diagnosed with autism in 2022, when only roughly 1 in 10,000 Americans were diagnosed with the disorder in the 1960s. Martha is joined by Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member Allysia Finley, who reveals evidence that shows many schools across the country have allegedly diagnosed more children with autism throughout the years due to financial incentives. She also discusses her thoughts on potential autism causes, and whether outside factors like vaccines or toxins in food have played a role in higher rates of the disorder in America. Follow Martha on X: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.1	To learn more, is it about Amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability? Hi everybody. I'm Martha McCallum, and this is the untold story where we seek to go a little bit deeper than we get an opportunity to on the story at our 3 p.m. Daily show on Fox News. But today we want to dig into a topic that's getting a lot of
0:56.7	attention lately, and that is the topic of autism. A week ago at the White House cabinet meeting
1:03.9	that the president was leading, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy,
1:08.9	Jr., said this.
1:20.7	We are going to know by September, we've launched a massive testing and research effort that's going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world.
1:24.6	By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and will be
1:28.8	able to eliminate those exposures. It was a huge statement that caught a lot of people's attention.
1:36.7	When Kennedy said that by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, he said,
1:42.6	and will be able to eliminate those exposures.
1:47.3	The numbers are these that currently 1 in 31 are diagnosed with some version on the spectrum of
1:54.8	autism. And in the past, in the 60s, those numbers looked more like one in 10,000 so the question is why what has
2:03.7	changed and we're going to get two different very educated viewpoints on this the first will be
2:10.8	alice finley journalist and editorial writer at the wall street journal her recent piece on this topic
2:16.5	raised a lot of interesting questions
2:18.3	about the numbers. And then after that, I'll speak with Callie Means, co-founder of TrueMed, co-author
2:24.4	with his sister Casey of Good Energy. Means works closely with Secretary Kennedy currently and
2:30.3	throughout the recent years. And his bestselling book is one of the major works in the discussion
2:34.7	of making America healthy again. So, Alyssa, great to be joined by you, first of all. Thank you for being here.
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