Vaccines do not cause autism, however many Americans believe they do. Now, Trump and RFK Jr. are perpetuating the myth.

There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the ...

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson stated, “There's never been a placebo-controlled study on childhood vaccines." That's false.

Trump did not explicitly say in the interview that vaccines cause autism, a false claim that traces back to a retracted study ...

Despite overwhelming evidence debunking it, the vaccine-autism myth is rising, fueled by misinformation after the pandemic.

Dave Weldon’s long record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism raises concerns among some public ...

The claim has been swirling since Robert. F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was tapped to lead the U.S. Department of Health ...

It is because for many, the idea of a vaccine-autism link gives them hope. As a medical sociologist, I spent three years studying parents of autistic children, practitioners, and researchers who are ...

About 48,000 were hospitalized and 500 died every year. The myth that vaccines cause autism stems from a discredited and retracted 1998 study by Andrew Wakefield, a disbarred British physician.

The connection between vaccines and autism has been a persistent myth, one that has fueled vaccine hesitancy for decades despite the science, experts said. With the COVID-19 pandemic in the ...

With improved screening and autism services, diagnosis is increasingly happening at younger ages. And there's been more awareness and advocacy for Black and Hispanic families too, leading to an ...