Dr. James Lyons-Weiler: “Under Kennedy, and with whole-hearted support by President Trump, the US adopts an empirical, data-driven policy toward autism causality and therapy. The federal government just signaled a serious course correction on autism. In a joint appearance that felt less like a press conference and more like a policy pivot, President Donald J. Trump stood alongside HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, and CMS Director Mehmet Oz to outline an all-agency plan that treats autism as an urgent, tractable public-health crisis—not a career-long grant treadmill. The package is sweeping. It elevates environmental and pharmaceutical exposures to first-class research questions, directs label changes with clinical relevance, and begins to dismantle sacred cows that have stifled honest inquiry for a generation.”