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|accessdate=2024-11-22
}}</ref> Kennedy's appointment was ratified by the United States Senate on 13 February 2025.<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00052.htm Roll Call Vote 119th Congress - 1st Session], United States Senate</ref>
Kennedy has claimed that boys who are [[circumcised]] early have twice the rate of autism.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Circumcised boys more likely to be autistic, RFK Jr claims
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|date=2025-10-09
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}}</ref> Hirota & King (2023) had previously reported the incidence of autism spectrum disorder was 3.7% in males as compared to 0.9 % in females or a little more than 4 times that of females.<ref name="hirota2023">{{REFjournal
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|title=Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review
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|journal=JAMA
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|date=2023-01-10
|volume=329
|issue=2
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|pages=147-68
|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2800182?guestAccessKey=ed7c3ab4-13c4-4e61-b07d-9450c0aa0221
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|quote=This study confirms that circumcision of the newborn causes severe and persistent pain. Acetaminophen was not found to ameliorate either the intraoperative or the immediate postoperative pain of circumcision, although it seems that it may provide some benefit after the immediate postoperative period.
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|DOI=10.1001/jama.2022.23661
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