Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on NIH autism research and vaccine autonomy
dr. jay bhattacharya says nih is funding over a dozen major teams to investigate autism causes, no holds barred. he pointed to an executive order that gave parents back autonomy on vaccines, and now they’re shifting toward european schedules, 11 vaccines, not 72. no science says that’s worse, and the whole point is handing parents the best evidence and real choice. he credited trump and kennedy for making it happen, taking on big pharma’s grip
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in autism. This is why at the NIH we funded science at the request of the president, at the request of Secretary Kennedy, to try to identify the cause. We funded a dozen or more major scientific teams to look at the question with no holds barred about what the answer is going to be. It's very likely something complicated because autism shows up as lots of different things for you know you have a lot of some very severe cases and some much less severe. The biology is going to be complicated but now we're allowed to get the answer to that question. That's one thing. The other thing it did is that it restored parental autonomy over decision making regarding what happens with their kids. We're going to provide the very best evidence and now we're aligning the vaccine recommendations more aligned with what happens in Europe. There's no reason or science that says that the European recommendations are worse than our recommendations, what our recommendations have been. So I think the key thing is let's tell parents what's the best evidence we have and let parents have a lot of autonomy over those decisions. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, thanks so much for being with us here today.
