by Natasha Hobley, Published January 2, 2026
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to award a contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to investigate links between autism prevalence and vaccination according to a notice on the federal website. The notice, posted in September 2025, indicated that the CDC planned to issue the fixed-price contract to the New York private research university based on its unique capability to study the intended group.1

“The vendor has unique ability to link children to maternal cohorts using proprietary databases and de-identified data sets, enabling advanced statistical analyses within the project’s timeframe,” stated the CDC.

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     James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Nov 22, 2025
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We’ve seen these studies before. But now, from Frieden others have cited a small subset of studies—a tightly curated list of 14 papers—as definitive prof that vaccines do not cause autism.

First problem: They left out of bunch of studies, and failed to report that not all vaccines have been tested for association with autism, and failed to report that association analyses are not critical tests of causality in the first place.

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     James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Nov 20, 2025
On November 19, 2025, quietly and without ceremony, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website and rewrote one of the most politically charged sentences in modern American medicine. A sentence that had been treated as gospel—“Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism”—was suddenly recast as something far more fragile. In the CDC’s own words, the slogan “is not an evidence‑based statement” because available studies “have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of autism.”

Yet the headline still sits atop the page. Not because the CDC stands behind it, but because a U.S. Senator demanded it stay. CDC states plainly that the headline remains only due to an agreement with the chair of the Senate HELP Committee. A mandated political slogan now presides over a scientific reversal.

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     by Jill Erzen, November 6, 2025
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a video this week on X, called for a global push to end the use of mercury in vaccines worldwide.

Kennedy’s speech addressed the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which was “born of a shared moral conviction that no human being should suffer from exposure to mercury.” Delegates are meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland.

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     by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., November 6, 2025
Babies and children who lack paper vaccination records sometimes receive two or three times the number of vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to experts who spoke with The Defender. Children whose parents immigrated to the U.S. and who don’t speak English are at the greatest risk.

Many medical providers assume that if there’s no record of a vaccination, the best way to ensure that a child receives the recommended vaccine is to readminister it, according to Rena Maculans, a registered nurse in California. “That’s the mentality of the providers,” she said.

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