The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to conduct a study to explore persistent reports that there is a link between vaccines and autism, according to a Mar. 7, 2025 report first published by Reuters1 and followed by The Washington Post on Mar. 7, 2025.2 A Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) spokesperson Andrew Nixon was quoted as making a pledge that the agency will pursue research to explore why there are unprecedented and ever increasing rates of autism diagnoses among children in America. He said:
CDC will leave no stone unturned in its mission to figure out what exactly is happening. The American people expect high-quality research and transparency, and that is what CDC is delivering.
The CDC acknowledges that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children in the U.S. has risen dramatically between 2000 and 2023, from 1 in 150 children in 2000 to 1 in 36 children today.3 Reportedly, the CDC will use the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)4 created in 1990 and currently collaborating with 11 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) to review patient database medical records for evidence that vaccines are or are not associated with certain types of serious reported poor health outcomes.5
There was immediate pushback from a number of vaccine developers and doctors, who were quoted in articles defending the safety of vaccines and opposing further research into vaccines and brain and immune system dysfunction labeled “autism,” including American Public Health Association Executive Director George C. Benjamin, MD; American Academy of Pediatrics President pediatrician Susan Kressly, MD; a former vice president of Moderna Richard Hughes IV, JD, MPH; vaccine researcher Greg Poland, MD, who is director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group; vaccine developer and mandatory vaccine proponent pediatrician Paul Offit, MD; Vanderbilt University professor and medical director for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases William Schaffner, MD.6 7
Most of them reiterated that any association between vaccines and autism has been “thoroughly debunked” by studies conducted in the past. The majority of these studies, however, have focused primarily on the live attenuated MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine or the Thimerosal preservative in inactivated bacterial and viral vaccines and were not designed to evaluate the synergistic effect of repeatedly atypically manipulating the developing immune systems of infants and young children with dozens of vaccines containing varying amounts of bioactive toxic ingredients.8 Additionally, many studies use control groups, which are not given true placebos but instead are given another vaccine or, for example, an aluminum adjuvant, which confounds potential negative side effects of the vaccine being studied and skews outcomes.
Many medical and public health professionals attribute the autism increase mostly to greater awareness, expanded diagnostic criteria, improved screening methods, and standardized evaluations that lead to earlier and more frequent diagnoses, rejecting any real increase in autism prevalence. Some researchers also point to genetic and environmental influences as potential contributors, while one study even suggests that “maternal stress” may play a role.9
No Proven Link, But Unprecedented Autism Surge Demands Answers
Wilbur Chen, MD, a University of Maryland School of Medicine professor and former member of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, was quoted by Reuters as expressing concern that the federal government conducting a study into the reported vaccine-autism connection is enough to raise doubts in the general public about vaccine safety. “It sends the signal that there is something there that is worth investigating, so that means there must be something going on between vaccines and autism,” he said.1
Last week, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, MD pressed the administration’s nominee for director of the U.S National Institutes of Health (NIH) Jay Bhattacharya, MD on whether he would support investigating a potential link between childhood vaccinations and autism. Dr. Bhattacharya responded:
I don’t generally believe there is a link, based on my reading of the literature. But we do have a sharp rise in autism rates, and I don’t think any scientist really knows the cause of it. I would support a broad scientific agenda based on data to get an answer to that.1
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Click here to view References:1 Levine D et al. Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say. Reuters Mar. 8, 2025.
2 Sun L, Weber L. CDC plans study on vaccines and autism despite research showing no link. Washington Post Mar. 7, 2025.
3 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data and Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder. May 18, 2024.
4 CDC. Vaccine Safety Datalink. Jan. 31, 2025.
5 Sun L, Weber L. CDC plans study on vaccines and autism despite research showing no link. The Washington Post Mar. 7, 2025.
6 Ibid.
7 George J. Why CDC’s Planned Vaccine-Autism Study Is Raising Eyebrows. MedPage Today Mar. 17, 2025.
8 Institute of Medicine Committee on the Assessment of Studies of Health Outcomes Related to the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule. Summary: Health Outcomes (p. 5-6) and Conclusions About Scientific Findings (p. 11) and Review of Scientific Findings (p. 75-98). The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies; Washington, D.C. The National Academies Press 2013.
9 Ries J. Autism: Rates in Children Reach New Highs, Experts Explain Why. Healthline Mar. 27, 2023.
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That’s no different than opening the door of the henhouse so the fox can come in 🤦♀️
That is good news. It seems obvious to me. I hope they do a good investigation and not skew it.
You’re joking, right?
CDC is code for big pharma. Nothing to see here as I guarantee with my life that there will absolutely be no link found between vaccines and autism even if they have to cook the books till they burn. These studies would have to take a decade and there is no way that will happen. It’s another big pharma sponsored farce. The holy mantra forever, as long as we have big pharma, the CDC and FDA as they are now, is that it is impossible for any vaccine to cause autism. Although they might allow for a freak case like one in 250,000 or some such lie.
Tom is a russian cybertroll.
Tom is trying his hardest to turn this horrible, unjust vaccine policy into an indictment of the entire American health system.
Tom is trying to get you to tear down all your health institutions.
Tom is trying to turn you against your own government.
Tom wants to hurt you.
…consider this; Tom only posts anti-government poison. Nothing else. No compassion.
Ktuff_morning toy, is the real Troll here; stating a stupid argument from one extreme to another. FACT: Injecting neurotoxins into any young and developing human WILL destroy those very delicate neuron branches, hence causing all sorts of brain damage, including AUTISM.
I reread Tom’s comment, which seems confusing. Is he “for or against” vaccine studies, using true science, and actual using pure saline injections, as the Control Group. Maybe I’m wrong about Tom, and he is a damn Troll. If so, please forgive me, Ktuff_morning : (
From what I read, Tom is saying they will never reveal the truth and any information they release will be manipulated. I would tend to agree with him in that there is just so much money tied up in injecting people with these toxic substances. Children getting 70 plus injections means big $$$$ and of course, now adults are getting more and more jabs for flu, shingles, pneumonia, and on and on. The CDC is deeply entrenched by pharma and more of an arm of pharma than any kind of independent group. Kuff’s blind allegiance to a corrupted health system and pharmaceutical control of that same system is the problem. A tear down of both with a rebuild off the health system, eliminating pharma, would benefit most people.
100% and I have a 25 year old son that proves it! Hospitalized 2 days after receiving multiple vaccines at a year old resulting in encephalitis and needing a lifetime of 24/7 care! I’m glad impartial and unbiased studies will be conducted and u hope they look at ALL the vaccines and how they are given at one time, not just individual vaccines!
poisoning the human body can NEVER result in “health”.
There are buried studies proving the link between chronic illness and all injectable poisons.
Profit and control by big pharma is the driving force behind the entire vaccine program…
Now isn’t that just common sense. Well said.
Exactly
About time
If you have a child who regressed after vaccines, especially between the ages of one to two years: verbal to non-verbal; meltdowns; and similar things – you know something isn’t right. How can one go from healthy and active to absolute misery?
Indeed. And the truth is one autism injury lasts for generations. My mother contracted whooping cough as an infant. Her mother who ran a nursing home (and was not a doctor) injected her with penicillin after the infection began. My mother broke out in angry red hives from head to toe. The massive immune system response interrupted her natural brain development AKA triggered autism. She had autism. Her three children got autism. Their children got autism. None of my mom’s siblings or their kids have autism, nor is there any on my father’s side. It was all inherited from that single injury.
NEVERTHELESS I do not take the position of “tear it all down” AKA “I’ve been hurt so the entire health system is bad” and “government is evil” and other nonsense like that.
Our injury came from ignorance. When it comes down to it that’s the main driving force behind this injustice and we must take it as our personal responsibility to teach. not destroy. Not to malign. But to teach. To change policy; not to childishly destroy institutions. DON’T THROW THE BABY AWAY WITH THE BATHWATER is the lesson you really need to take to heart. Teach. Don’t badmouth.
PLUS, every glass vial of ANY vaccines, ALL have DIFFERENT concentrations of those deadly neurotoxins in it, because “liquid metals and saline don’t mix very well during the final manufacturing process. Hence, you have “hot” vials, and “cold” vials, which I believe is done on purpose, to confuse patient side effect outcomes.
Damn skippy, Mikey. The CDC VAERS vaccine injury database sometimes identifies those “hot lots” *if* parents do their research and make their reports to it . . . pediatricians are NOT required to report any suspicions of so-called vaccine injury and/or adverse events. It’s estimated that the CDC’s own “vaccine injury/adverse events database” vaers.org . . . only represents less than 10 percent of vaccine injuries/events . . . OPEN YOUR EYES, FOLKS. 🙁
Your supposition is that the autism was inherited from a single shot of penicillin. I tend to doubt that. The current medical system, was a rather newly created monster by the Rockefellers and not some grand tradition passed down through generations. They hi-jacked many successful treatment methods that were also without the horrible side-effects (aka poisoning) and replaced then with the current allopathic (drugs for all problems) system. It should be torn down because the driving force behind the current system is not to improve health. It is to maintain customers for life. Most adults are on at least one prescription drug for LIFE and many on multiple scripts. EVERY drug has side negative side effects. How is this health, keeping people tethered to a corporation that keeps them coming back for more and then drugs for the effects of the first? If vaccines were so darned good they wouldn’t need liability protections that the politicians gave them–an in turn, received generous campaign support or cushy jobs after their terms in office. The pharma companies are not ignorant as you want to believe. They are well aware of the damages their products cause and they manipulate the trials to produce the answers they have already settled on. We saw that quite blatantly with the Pfizer covid vax trials after the papers were released. I can only assume you, Kuff, are employed by the pharma industry and don’t want the gravy train to end.
This is what we’ve been waiting for! The ONE good thing about the Trump fiasco is RFK jr. The following questions remain:
1) Will adjuvants be a control or independent variable?
2) Will we be protected from scientific fraud ALA Dr Willam Thompson/Vaxxed?
3) After we find causation will Trump “make a deal” with the pharma giants and stab us in the back like he did with Ukraine?
4) Will we allow russian cybertrolls to use these study results as a propaganda tool to “tear it all down” and dismantle our health systems and institutions?
5) …Are genuine vaccine safety studies worth the end of democracy, the end of social security and the beginning of the police-state?
Excellent response. Valid questions. Thank you!
YES!!!!! And will we — as parents of vaccine injured kids — be able to repeal that Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 . . . which only has a timeline of 3-years *after symptoms* of *initial* injury manifested themselves (speech delay, mot(or delays, etc.) . . . when our very own pediatricians dismissed our concerns for years (and refused to DOCUMENT much less put their stamps on a TRUE DIAGNOSIS, lest they suffer recourse from CDC, APA, etc.) . . and we parents were unable to get *the* actual “autism” diagnosis until several years of therapy, IEP’s, and monies spent MUCH LATER ON . . . too late for the government’s canary “Vaccine Court” VICP litigation, which compensated 84 families (ALL UNDER *GAG ORDERS* — google “Hannah Poling” and “Bailey Banks” for starters) before shutting down our only avenue for damage recompensation (Autism Omnibus proceedings).
Please don’t get me started . . . and my sincere apologies for this all-CAPS response . . . this issue is foremost in my mind AND has me FUMING. Links/other info gladly provided if new parents to this issue wish to send me a PM via facebook messenger . . . Barbara Johnson in Idaho.
There’s nothing good about vaccines whatsover, no matter what they do.
So far only witchcraft has prevailed in the vaccine industry. Has anyone tried the scientific method to answer foundational questions. For example…Let’s Test the Null hypothesis. “Vaccines cannot prevent any disease”. Then proceed from there.
This is what we’ve been waiting for! The ONE good thing about the Trump fiasco is RFK jr. The following questions remain:
1) Will adjuvants be a control or independent variable?
2) Will we be protected from scientific fraud ALA Dr Willam Thompson/Vaxxed?
3) After we find causation will Trump “make a deal” with the pharma giants and stab us in the back like he did with Ukraine?
4) Will we allow russian cybertrolls to use these study results as a propaganda tool to “tear it all down” and dismantle our health systems and institutions?
5) …Are genuine vaccine safety studies worth the end of democracy, the end of social security and the beginning of the police-state?
Too bad they trashed the first one. Dr. William Thompson of the CDC did a study awhile back which did find a link. The CDC forced him to shred the data and then buried the study. Your tax dollars at work.
YEP and CDC’s senior scientist WILLIAM THOMPSON is receiving government protection as a whistleblower to this day . . . Rep. Bill Posey brought this issue (including transcripts to that damning phone-call evidence) in front of the Senate floor to request an official Congressional Hearing more than a decade ago , , , CRICKETS … justice for all of our vaccine-injured kids is needed.
And next, I would like a study on why there are so many people who have Gender Dysphoria. Aluminum does cause confusion of Identity. Glyphosate has a possible connection as well.
It’s so so evil what Big Pharma has been doing, and is still doing, to so many trusting, and gullible humans on this planet Earth. Basically, profiting in the hundreds of billions each year, and getting away with maiming and murdering humans globally.
Several med scientists have theorized that gender confusyis caused by aborted human DNA in the vaccines. Infant boys are repeatedly injected with female DNA and vice versa. Horrific in every way!
Comic gold. / CDC will leave no stone unturned in its mission to figure out what exactly is happening. The American people expect high-quality research and transparency, and that is what CDC is delivering. / I’m about to fall out of my chair and spill my coffee in a hysterical fit of spontaneous laughter! They can skip the effort and call over Del Bigtree from Highwire live instead. Somehow mysteriously we can’t know the truth or make well informed conclusions because the CDC has not performed the study themselves…
As all the big industries skirt liability by claiming there is only causal relationships and no direct evidence which points conclusively. Until they can measure comparative exposure of test groups for all the other substances, exposures and technologies which are likewise devastating to human health, they’re unlikely to affirmatively nail anything down. Yet, regular people like you and me can understand the issue. Because we’re not compartmentalized and therefore we bother to look at the big picture without conformational bias or fear of reprisal by these entrenched and powerful corporate influences.
The truth is a less astonishing revelation; That our collectively lax and irresponsible development of many new technologies is all to blame all at once simultaneously. The last thing we effectively regulated in this country was lead and asbestos, and even fifty years later still can’t get that regulation quite right. The last place anyone should turn to for safety advisement is the government. They’ve rubber stamped everything as safe for our entire lives. Policy for sale.
wifi, cellular, starlink, crispr9, bioengineered food products, glyphosate, atrazine, various chemicals, barium and aluminum raining down from the skies, environmental exposures, voc’s, lack of nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, fluoride and chemicals in water, a relentless barrage of environmental exposure of every type everywhere all the time. As people believe fairy tales they can march into hospitals and a magic needle will provide them ultimate protection. Excessive bio toxic accumulation seems like a sensible hypothesis. Vaccine damage accelerates the other co founding issues.
When a government agency realizes they’ve lost all trust en masse, then they try to con the people to imply they could still have anything to say anyone would want to hear or ever believe. What’s changed? Nothing.
CDC’s going to investigate itself again, eh? I wonder what that will conclude? Not!
Last time the CDC did this and lied to Congressional Hearing attendees, the CDC Director, Dr. Julie Geberding, was rewarded with the top job at Merck’s Vaccine Division.
Yep, nothing to see here.
The studies have already been done they just have to show them! Its clear RFK had to make a deal with Trump to get in and that was something on not talking about the V word. He knows how bad they are I have no doubt as I have listened and read what he has shared for many years. My hope is he is slow playing this and will get the results before its to late and the next President comes in and reverses all of what they are working on now.
One Very Important Question: WHEN THE HELL WILL THIS MEDICAL MADNESS AND INSANITY BY INJECTING TOXIC MATERIALS INTO HUMANS AND ANIMALS STOP 🛑 NOTE: IF THIS IS NOT STOPPED SOON, HUMANITY CAN NOT FUNCTION ANYMORE, WHEN 1 OUT 2 HUMANS BECOME SERIOUSLY AUTISTIC. NOTE: WHY ARE THERE NOT ANY AUTISTIC SENIOR CITIZENS ALIVE NOW? Maybe that’s why they want them dead sooner, via Flu Shots, COVID Jabs, etc etc – ERASE THAT LAST LIVING EVIDENCE TO KEEP THE EVIL DECEPTION GOING.
What about whistleblower William Thompson, CDC scientist involved in supposedly definitive autism-vax link, who in 2004 kept papers that had been discarded by study operatives which showed that there was, indeed, an autism-MMR link among black youth who had followed the vax schedule? CDC claimed the study showed no link. Brian Hooker wrote a book about this, I believe. Why. doesn’t RFK jr get Thompson in front of Congress under oath?
The insanity will stop once people know the truth.
People have been brain wash for their entire life.
The truth is becoming more visible.
let’s give Kennedy a try.
the study will find that vaccine do cause autism, but the pHARMa sponsored news will never tell.
Yes Katherine. Kirsh did a study that accidentally found vaccine cause homosexuality that Katherine called gender dysphoria. It was a volunteer servay. Watch VSRF
vacsaftey.org
When doctors, bureaucrats, companies are screaming that investigating vaccines might take down belief in vaccines… That says it all. It’s a religion built on a house of cards and it must be destroyed right now.
In other news, abusive cops investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing. LOL
Here is an idea, offer Homeopathic immunizations! Safe and Effective, no side effects, no needles, no toxins, no worries. Go back to offering Allopathic and Homeopathic solutions just like Europe, India and many other nations.
Can you catch a disease? If yes > can we identify a causative agent? If yes > can a vaccine defeat his agent? If yes > Is the vaccine safe? The problem is the answer to the first question is “not proven”.
For a review of 203 historical studies to test contagion see “Can You Catch A Cold?” For the second question see “Virus Mania” For the question about safety see “Imagine You Are An Aluminum Atom” to see the link between aluminum and 38 diseases many of them neurological. Latest news was a link to T2 diabetes via damage to the pancreas