{"id":7074,"date":"2025-09-23T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/trump-autism-claims-jump-the-shark-arthur-caplan\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:02:24","slug":"trump-autism-claims-jump-the-shark-arthur-caplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/trump-autism-claims-jump-the-shark-arthur-caplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The U.S. government has jumped the public health shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: The U.S. government has jumped the public health shark<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>On Monday, President Trump, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies Administrator Mehmet \u00a0Oz, and other top officials at the National Institutes for Health and the Food and Drug Administration presented their promised conclusions regarding the cause and treatment of autism.<\/p>\n<p>As I watched the top science and health officials of our nation flank the president, I was worried that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1376327&amp;action=edit\">given Kennedy\u2019s well-documented hatred of vaccines<\/a>, things might not go well. I was right to worry. Things went as badly as they possibly could have gone. The big autism reveal was a total disaster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/23\/trump-autism-claims-jump-the-shark-arthur-caplan\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Arthur L. Caplan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/23\/trump-autism-claims-jump-the-shark-arthur-caplan\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The U.S. government has jumped the public health shark On Monday, President Trump, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies Administrator Mehmet \u00a0Oz, and other top officials at the National Institutes for Health and the Food and Drug Administration presented their promised conclusions regarding the cause and treatment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2177,2146,2143,2147,2144,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-donald-trump","category-fda","category-first-opinion","category-hhs","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074"}],"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=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}