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Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.
TL;DR
- The White House is reportedly drafting an executive order on the disproven link between vaccines and autism.
- The order may focus on the childhood vaccine schedule, autism research, and parental vaccination choice.
- Dozens of high-quality studies have consistently found no link between vaccines and autism.
- The claim of a link originated from a fraudulent, retracted study.
- Medical groups, scientists, and autism advocates reject the pursuit of this disproven link.
- Promoting the false link is considered politically risky, yet President Trump reportedly insists on it.
- Trump allegedly wants to be remembered as the president who cured autism by scaling back vaccines.
- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, has been reportedly chastised by Trump for not doing enough on the issue.