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The Brian Lehrer Show

Science and Rising Autism Rates

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, walks through the studies debunking a link between vaccines and autism.

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

0:23.8

One of the things we're doing on this show during Trump's first hundred days is a health and climate Tuesday section of the show.

0:30.8

As some of you know, this builds on and expands the climate story of the week that we had been doing on Tuesdays the last two years, our thinking

0:38.4

right now is that there are so many headlines coming from the new administration that are pretty

0:43.4

monumental on a daily basis that health and climate ones risk getting lost in the shuffle.

0:48.9

Today, for example, the big headlines are about Trump's tariff chaos, apparently tanking the stock market,

0:55.5

and Ukraine launching an actual military attack on Moscow. We're talking about those things, too,

1:01.4

of course, on the show and throughout the day on the station, but we lead today with our

1:05.8

health and climate section to make sure these things don't get lost. We'll keep doing this on Tuesdays, at least

1:12.1

through the first 100 days. On climate, the new energy secretary, Chris Wright, yesterday,

1:17.9

shrugged off climate change as a side effect of building the modern world and said the cure

1:24.0

is worse than the disease. As the Trump administration cuts back on permits and

1:28.6

investment in renewable energy, we'll talk to climate journalist Emily Atkin coming up.

1:34.5

And on health, we're staying on the RFK beat this week. We'll do this one first and get to climate

1:41.0

second. There's a headline in the New York Times today.

1:44.8

Kennedy links measles outbreak to poor diet and health, citing fringe theories.

1:51.5

It was about an interview we gave to Fox News, and it actually gets fringier than that

1:56.2

headline as you read through the article.

1:58.7

Also, in the Trump addressed to Congress last week,

2:02.1

with all the lies he told about millions of 140-year-olds getting Social Security payments and

2:07.6

other things, getting so much attention afterwards, we may not have noticed as much, or people

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