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Surprise: Trump’s Pick for CDC Chief Has Spread the Debunked Claim That Vaccines Can Cause Autism
The Washington Post reports that Weldon—a physician and former congressman whom anti-vaccine activists wanted to lead the CDC during Trump’s first term—has a “record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence attesting to the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
A community note on X said the congresswoman's stance "can only be explained through sheer ignorance, or some sort of ...
In a post to X which was, shortly after, hit with a corrective community note, Greene wrote, “I fully believe vaccines ...
President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions ...
As one observer noted, Greene’s belief about the supposed dangers of vaccines ‘is not too far from the stated views of the ...
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Trump did not explicitly say in the interview that vaccines cause autism, a false claim that traces back to a retracted study ...
Researchers attribute a rise in autism diagnoses to increased screening and changing definitions of the condition. Hundreds ...
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