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By Emily Mangiaracina

During a Senate hearing yesterday, Kennedy noted that a CDC study found a 260% higher rate of autism in boys who got the MMR vaccine.

A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report commissioned by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. indicates Tylenol use during pregnancy is one factor contributing to the U.S. autism epidemic, according to media reports.

Sources close to the matter said low levels of folate as well as the use of the acetaminophen-based drug will be named in the forthcoming HHS autism report as among potential causal factors behind autism.

Kennedy, secretary of the HHS, told Fox and Friends last week that his agency was about to reveal causes of autism and make government regulation recommendations accordingly. His remarks suggest that mothers’ Tylenol use and folate deficiency will be among a multitude of factors cited in the HHS report.

“There is not a single cause, there are many, many — there’s an aggregation of causes,” said Kennedy. “We are now developing sufficient evidence to ask for regulatory action on some of those, or recommendations.”

He noted the documented explosion in autism rates, which have gone from less than one in 10,000 in 1970 to one case for every 31 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Even if autism is over-diagnosed, a significant portion of these children are severely impaired, indicating a real, notable increase in the disorder.

“Most cases now are severe,” Kennedy said in April while discussing the results of a CDC autism survey. He explained that “25% of the kids who are diagnosed with autism are non-verbal, non-toilet trained,” and have other dysfunctional behaviors typical of severe autism like head-banging.

During a Senate hearing on Thursday, Kennedy also pointed to a link between the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.

“In 2002, CDC did an internal study of Fulton County, Georgia, children, and looked at children who got the MMR vaccine on time and compared those to kids who got them later. The data from that study showed that black boys who got the vaccine on time had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited,” Kennedy explained.

“The chief scientist on that, Dr. William Thompson, the senior vaccine safety scientist at CDC, was ordered to come into a room with four other co-authors by his boss, Frank DeStefano, who’s the head of the Immunization Safety Branch, in order to destroy that data,” said Kennedy.

This story was divulged by CDC whistleblower Dr. William Thompson, one of the co-authors who intentionally omitted the 2004 study data showing the MMR vaccine-autism connection in black children.

While an evolving, broadening definition of autism may contribute to increased diagnoses, Kennedy believes “environmental toxins” have contributed to a full-blown epidemic of autism.

“We’re going to look at vaccines, but we’re going to look at everything. Everything is on the table, our food system, our water, our air, different ways of parenting, all the kind of changes that may have triggered this epidemic,” the HHS head previously told Fox News.

“It is an epidemic,” Kennedy insisted. “Epidemics are not caused by genes. Genes can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin.”

“We know that it is an environmental toxin that is causing this cataclysm,” said Kennedy, “and we are going to identify it.”

From LifeSiteNews

By Clare Marie Merkowsky

The NDP’s leadership race imposes strict rules limiting signatures from so-called ‘cis’ men to 50% while mandating diversity quotas.

The New Democratic Party (NDP) had restricted how much support leadership candidates can receive from “cis” male Canadians.

According to the NDP leadership contest rulebook, leader candidates cannot receive more than 50 percent of the total required signatures from “cis” men, which is the LGBT term for a man who recognizes his being a man.

“At least fifty percent (50%) of the total required signatures must be from members who do not identify as a cis man,” the handbook states.

Additionally, the NDP mandates that a “minimum of one hundred (100) signatures must be from members of equity-seeking groups, including but not limited to racialized members, Indigenous members, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and persons living with disabilities.”

Likewise, the signatures must be split between the provinces, and at least 10 percent must come from young NDP supporters.

The NDP officially launched its leadership race on September 2, following the resignation of former leader Jagmeet Singh after the party’s significant defeat in the April 2025 federal election.

During the election, the party lost its official status after only winning seven ridings. The NDP party has held its official status since 1961, losing this position for a short time between 1993 and 1997.Without official party status, the party lost privileges in Parliament, including the ability to ask daily questions in question period. NDP MPs will also not be guaranteed seats on standing committees and will be denied financial resources provided to recognized parties.

The race aims to select Singh’s permanent successor, with the new leader to be announced at the NDP’s national convention in Winnipeg on March 29, 2026

While the NDP based its party platform on supporting workers’ rights, in recent years it appears to have become little more than another radical woke party. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Liberal and NDP parties formed a coalition which kept the Liberals in power for years.

Interim NDP leader Don Davies admitted recently that his party’s obsession with woke identity politics has been an electoral millstone around the party’s figurative neck. In a recent podcast interview with TVO host Steve Paikin, Davies mused that the party’s priorities have drifted in recent years.

“I think what the NDP has to do is a really good navel-gazing,” he told Paikin. “Are we talking about the right issues that are affecting kitchen tables in Oshawa or Trois-Rivières or Kamloops? Are we really understanding what working people are going through? I’m looking forward to the discussion in our party to see if we can reorient ourselves so we can tell workers, ‘We get you; we’ve got policies that will make your lives better.’”

As the National Post noted, Davies “said he also recognizes that, at the same time, issues facing white, straight male workers are ‘not the same’ as issues facing a worker who is a lesbian and a woman of colour and the party should find a balance between reflecting those different interests.” While the NDP has historically claimed to be the party of the working man, popularity among that demographic has slumped in recent years.