Monday’s press conference was a squib when we had been promised fireworks. Coming in September, Robert F. Kennedy Jr had declared, would be a definitive report on what causes autism and with the answer to this out of control “epidemic.” The conclusion would be what “gold standard science” showed.

And we got: don’t take one particular painkiller if you’re pregnant. Even if it were true, not the great definitive answer we were promised.

An unexpected answer

They seem to have backed themselves into a corner and had to do something, no matter how lame. (The press conference reminded me of the Four Seasons Landscaping press conference in 2016, when the Trump campaign tried to cover up failing to book the Four Seasons hotel.)

But at least the answer was unexpected. Everyone had assumed, I’m

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