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RFK Jr.’s explanation for autism rates clashes with science
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insists an environmental toxin is responsible for increased autism prevalence in the U.S. “This is a preventable disease,” he said April 16, dismissing an HHS agency report’s explanation for the increase. “We know it’s an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics.…
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Are other countries ‘cheating’ the U.S. on trade?
If you listen to President Donald Trump and his allies discuss his sweeping tariff plans, one word pops up a lot: “Cheating.” During his April 2 announcement of what he called “liberation day,” Trump released a list of new tariffs of up to 50% on virtually every country — a plan that took effect at…
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Did Biden grow the agriculture trade deficit to $49 billion?
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blamed former President Joe Biden for the rising agricultural trade deficit, while defending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on nearly every country. “In the last four years, we had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion,” Rollins said in an April 6 CNN…
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Fentanyl misinformation threatens to roil overdose response
Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation’s high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious problem: misinformation. False and misleading narratives on social media, in news reports and even in popular television dramas suggesting people can overdose from touching fentanyl — rather than ingesting it — are now informing policy and spending decisions. In an…