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

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 ...

Researchers point to social, diagnostic and biological factors to help explain a rise in diagnoses in recent years.

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

It is because for many, the idea of a vaccine-autism link gives them hope. As a medical sociologist, I spent three years ...

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

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.

President-elect Donald Trump would not denounce the false conspiracy theory that childhood vaccines have caused autism rates to rise, saying instead that he would listen to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the ...

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 ...