{"id":10883,"date":"2026-03-03T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/autism-researchers-rebuke-kennedy-form-independent-advisory-group\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:02:19","slug":"autism-researchers-rebuke-kennedy-form-independent-advisory-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/autism-researchers-rebuke-kennedy-form-independent-advisory-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism researchers rebuke Kennedy, form independent advisory group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Autism researchers rebuke Kennedy, form independent advisory group<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A group of autism researchers and advocates announced Tuesday the formation of an independent advisory body that will develop a scientific agenda for the autism community. They hope to act as a bulwark against a federal committee bearing a similar name and its new members who believe that childhood vaccines can cause autism, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/28\/kennedy-names-new-autism-advisors-advocates-alarmed-vaccine-skeptics\/\">the lack of evidence for such a link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Autism Coordinating Committee (I-ACC) will hold its first meeting on March 19 \u2014 the same day that the newly-reformed federal body, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), will meet for its first publicly-announced meeting, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/03\/03\/independent-autism-advisory-committee-rfk\/\">first reported by the Washington Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/autism-researchers-rebuke-kennedy-form-independent-advisory-group\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    O. Rose Broderick<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/autism-researchers-rebuke-kennedy-form-independent-advisory-group\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autism researchers rebuke Kennedy, form independent advisory group A group of autism researchers and advocates announced Tuesday the formation of an independent advisory body that will develop a scientific agenda for the autism community. They hope to act as a bulwark against a federal committee bearing a similar name and its new members who believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2471,2151,2144],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-policy","category-politics","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}