{"id":15031,"date":"2025-09-25T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=15031"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:04:04","slug":"did-the-government-just-admit-vaccines-cause-autism","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/did-the-government-just-admit-vaccines-cause-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the government just admit vaccines cause autism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-rfk-jr-distort-facts-autism-tylenol-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference<\/a>\u00a0following a report issued about the causes of autism, Health Secretary RFK Jr. and President Trump made a number of false claims about vaccines and autism. We will talk about them in this week&#8217;s newsletter.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In 1998,\u00a0 Andrew Wakefield held a press conference about a paper he wrote that wrongly suggested vaccines might cause autism. That paper has since been proven false and officially taken back.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, scientists didn\u2019t know as much about autism as they do today. Now, research shows autism is mostly caused by genes and usually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2014\/03\/26\/294446735\/brain-changes-suggest-autism-starts-in-the-womb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">begins before birth<\/a>, while the baby\u2019s brain is still developing. The brain differences linked to autism are present early on, not caused suddenly by vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the CDC held a two-day meeting at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97&amp;id=a2e8ac4eab&amp;e=1c0c4183cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simpsonwood<\/a>\u00a0Conference Center to review data about thimerosal, a mercury compound once used in some vaccines. Experts, health organizations, and vaccine companies carefully studied whether it was linked to autism or other brain issues.<\/p>\n<p>Later, in 2005, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published an article claiming there was a conspiracy to hide vaccine safety problems. But the article contained many errors and was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/01\/16\/dangerous_immunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retracted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090327063553\/http:\/\/help.senate.gov\/Min_press\/autism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate committee<\/a>\u00a0reviewed these claims against the CDC. They found the accusations were mostly untrue and that the CDC did not interfere with vaccine safety\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/autismsciencefoundation.org\/autism-and-vaccines-read-the-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studies<\/a>. They also found no evidence of a cover-up at the Simpsonwood meeting or pressure on researchers to change their results.<\/p>\n<p>Many large studies since then, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/autismsciencefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/vaccine.2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in Denmark<\/a>\u00a0that followed more than 650,000 children, show that vaccines like the MMR shot do not cause autism. Kids who got the vaccine were no more likely to have autism than kids who did not.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite new claims from RFK Jr. and Trump, vaccines do not cause autism. We unpack the history and the science showing no link, just political noise and old debunked theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[195,218],"class_list":["post-15031","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-autism","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/15031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/15031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15034,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/15031\/revisions\/15034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=15031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}