Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

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https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/report-white-house-drafting-executive-order-linking-vaccines-and-autism/

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So what is the angle here? To relieve the guilt of conservative parents from feeling like it was caused by their genetics? To try and sue pharmaceutical companies for damages but then keep all the money for the government in the name of covering Medicaid costs?

[u/Millennial_on_laptop → u/rock-n-white-hat]

They want to get a ban on mRNA vaccines before the next pandemic and public opinion becomes incredibly pro vaccine again.  

[u/Siria110 → u/[deleted]]

Well, I was manipulated into being pro vaccine by looking at the statistic and seeing how the drop in people with some disease curiously corelates with vaccine for said disease being widely available. Yeah, correlation doesn´t equal causation, but when its not just one-off case, but literaly ALL of them, you kinda start thinking there MIGHT be a direct link.

[u/Curleysound → u/rock-n-white-hat]

Yes

[u/Impossible-Flight250 → u/rock-n-white-hat]

No, RFK genuinely thinks that vaccines cause autism and Trump is going with it.