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Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

My name is Philip DeFranco, and we have a lot to talk about today, starting with this.

RFK Jr. is now reportedly starting an autism registry to track Americans with the condition.

And according to CBS, this is part of sweeping studies that Kennedy announced in his first

press conference last week, which if he didn't see, the TLDR of that press conference is that

you had Kennedy falsely claiming that autism was a preventable disease caused by

environmental toxins rather than genetics and declaring that his agency will be launching a series

of studies into the causes. Right in this, despite the fact that experts widely agree that,

one, autism is not a preventable disease, but rather a complex neurological condition. And two,

it likely has a number of different causes with multiple studies showing that, contrary to

RFK's claims, that genetic factors actually do play a significant role.

With Kennedy, then also attracting widespread criticism for describing autism as this

horrible affliction that ruins families and painting autistic people is totally incapable of

functioning a society.

Though we will say, he did walk back his claim somewhat, clarifying that he was only

referring to people on the more severe end of the spectrum.

But regardless, the whole ordeal it sparked a ton of backlash.

And now, this week, we've gotten a little more insight into what exactly kind of these autism studies are going to look like.

With reports coming in, saying to conduct the studies, the National Institutes of Health will be collecting the private medical records of people with autism from numerous existing federal and commercial databases.

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