The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is initiating a significant research project to explore any possible association between vaccinations and autism, according to sources. The involvement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is currently unclear, but as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, he has the power to influence CDC priorities, including resource allocation.
Appointed by President Donald J. Trump, the former independent and Democratic presidential candidate has long expressed skepticism over vaccine safety, particularly the COVID-19 vaccines and the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
While Kennedy’s critics in Big Pharma and the political establishment claim there is “consensus” that autism and vaccinations are not linked. However, Kennedy argues, “Not one of the 72 vaccines that are now mandated for our children has ever been tested against a placebo for safety in a pre-licensure study, nor have they done the long-term studies—five years, ten years—to see what happens.”
SAFETY ISSUES.
Safety studies around vaccines are also lacking in other areas; for instance, alum—aluminum salts—has been used in most vaccines as an adjuvant, increasing the body’s immune response to inoculation, for close to 100 years, but a 2011 paper published in the Current Medical Chemistry journal notes that “medical science’s understanding about their mechanisms of action is still remarkably poor.”
Moreover, the paper’s authors note that “Experimental research… clearly shows that aluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious immunological disorders” and that “aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications.”
The fact that aluminum is a proven neurotoxin is not in dispute.
In 2023, Kennedy complained the CDC was “refus[ing] to investigate the cause of [an] exploding Autism epidemic far more devastating than COVID.” The same year, the CDC published data showing one in 36 children had autism. In 1970, the rate was just one in 10,000.
President Trump has at times expressed his own reservations about vaccinations. During a 2015 debate when he was running for the Republican presidential nomination, he said, “I am totally in favor of vaccines, but I want smaller doses over a longer period of time… I’ve seen it… You take this little beautiful baby, and [the vaccine] looks just like it’s meant for a horse, not for a child. And we’ve had so many instances, people that work for me…. a child, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine, and came back, and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.”
He repeated some of these concerns to Kennedy in a phone call shortly after the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024.
show lessHealthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn’t feel good and changes – AUTISM. Many such cases!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2014
