When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stepped into a recent high-level meeting with former President Donald Trump and senior Cabinet officials, few could have predicted how quickly the conversation would ignite controversy across the nation.
What began as a policy discussion rapidly transformed into a heated debate, after Kennedy revived some of his most disputed theories linking common medications and everyday medical procedures to autism — a condition widely studied but still deeply misunderstood by the public.
In the days that followed, headlines exploded, advocacy groups mobilized, medical experts issued urgent statements, and families across the country found themselves once again caught in the crossfire of a debate they never asked for. The intensity of the reactions reflected just how…
