In just two months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of Health and Human Services — and its priorities.

Just two days after he underscored in a previous statement that autism is worse than Covid because the virus killed “old people,” Kennedy appeared Tuesday night on Fox News and insisted that autism is “20 times worse than Covid-19, in terms of the economic impact, the social impact, the moral impact on our country.”

Autism destroys families,” he said, “and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children.” But plenty parents of affected kids were not impressed. “I just look at the source—this is a man who strapped a whale’s head to the top of the family car,