“It must be outside”

President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that height autism The rates in the United States can be caused by artificial or external factors, enlivening the fears among doctors that the White House gives credibility with commonly overthrown conspiracy theories.

“It was 1 in 10,000, now it’s 1 to 31. I think it’s just a terrible thing,” said Trump during the host of the White House, which is healthy again (Increase) order. “It must be something outside. It must be artificially caused, it must be.”

Recent CDC The report stated that autism Occurrence in the US has increased from 1 to 36 children to 1 to 31.

It is not clear what test Trump was to refer to the “1 in 10,000” statistics. CDC does not quote the dissemination of autism before 2000 – when autism presented in children “1 in 150” – due to changes in diagnostics.

Scientists note that the increase in the prevalence of autism is partly caused by changes in diagnostic criteria and progress in screening methods.

Comments come next to the controversial issue report Author under the supervision of the Secretary for Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy JR. The 69-page document encourages further control of childhood vaccines, food additives and pesticides-not providing scientific evidence combining them with diseases such as autism, ADHD or obesity.

While Trump did not turn to vaccines, the long history of the skepticism of Kennedy’s vaccine often associated vaccinations with autism, although such claims were repeatedly overthrown by scientific research.

The report also contains many comparisons of European dietary standards and criticizes American food supply for excessive dependent on artificial dyes and additives, which echoes, referring to the last American initiative encouraging food companies to start eight common food dyes.