{
  "id": 2967830,
  "title": "“Autism biomed” is now in charge of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/autism-biomed-is-now-in-charge-of-the-eunice-kennedy-shriver-national",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-24T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Science-Based Medicine",
    "slug": "science-based-medicine",
    "url": "http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/autism-biomed-is-now-in-charge-of-the-eunice-kennedy-shriver-national-institute-of-child-health-and-human-development/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The NIH announced that Dr. John Gaitanis, who has served as expert witness for plaintiffs of \"vaccine injury\" cases and is affiliated with the autism biomed quackery group MAPS, will lead the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Lysenko marches on. The post “Autism biomed” is now in charge of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}