US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to give a keynote speech at a sold-out Washington, DC conference hosted by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group he formerly led. He'll share the stage with Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher who lost his medical license after publishing a fraudulent study falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
A new analysis reports that autistic individuals face significantly shorter lifespans than the general population, with an average reduction of about 13.8 years. Researchers found that much of this gap stems from preventable causes of death, including influenza, drowning, and malnutrition rather than autism itself.
A writer describes taking a psychiatrist-recommended online ADHD test that resembled an old Flash game, requiring him to press spacebar whenever a card with three red hearts appeared amid mounting visual and audio distractions. Curious about how the test worked, he used browser DevTools to capture the page's source code and network requests during the exam.