CDC to study vaccines and autism, despite several studies already finding no link

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will study whether vaccines cause autism, despite numerous existing studies already showing there is no link.

HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon confirmed the effort in a statement overnight, saying the agency plans to leave "no stone unturned."

"As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has skyrocketed. CDC will leave no stone unturned in its mission to figure out what exactly is happening,” the statement said. “The American people expect high quality research and transparency and that is what CDC is delivering."

Nixon did not answer questions about how the study would be conducted and how it would be different from the numerous peer-reviewed studies already published.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, has made money through books and speeches that disparage vaccine safety and he refused to say during his confirmation hearings that vaccines don't cause autism despite many high-quality studies finding no such link.