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I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box. I've painted it silver and Daddy helped me make it.

At Amazon, we're actually using paper bags for more of our deliveries.

And now I'm making a paper hot air balloon and I even made a little brown basket and I'm making a dog that looks just like Monty.

Just one of the ways we've reduced the weight of our packaging by more than 40% since 2015, which is still good for playtime.

Mom, where's the scissors?

To learn more, visit aboutamason.com.com is very concerned about autism. He has been for a couple of decades,

since he first became convinced that mercury in vaccines made children autistic, which, by the way,

there is no credible evidence supporting this theory. On April 16th, now as head of Health and Human Services,

RFK gave a press conference, and he described the tragedy of what he calls the autism epidemic.

For years, he's insisted there is an epidemic, even though there's a lot of debate among

researchers about this, all of which he dismisses as, quote, epidemic denial, a term he repeated several times in that press conference.

There are many, many other studies that affirm this. And instead of listening to this canard of epidemic denial, all you have to do is start reading a little science,

because the answer is very clear. And this is catastrophic for our country.

Catastrophic, he says, because a lot of families are suffering as they watch their kids

struggle in life. And it's true. A lot of families are suffering.

I'm Hannah Rose, and this is Radio Atlantic.

There is a lot of confusion out there about autism.

Why it's increasing? If it's even increasing.

And what even counts as autism?

And I think it's fair to say that RFK's strong and public entry into this debate has not in any way helped to clear things up. So we're going to talk to someone who writes about autism, also covers politics for the UK paper The Independent, and is himself autistic. Eric Garcia, author of We're Not Broken, Changing the Autism Conversation.

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