Fact-check: “Vaccines cause autism”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Decades of large-scale epidemiological studies across multiple countries consistently find no causal link between vaccines and autism spectrum disorder. The original 1998 Wakefield study that sparked the hypothesis was retracted by The Lancet in 2010 due to falsified data and methodological fraud. A November 2025 revision to a CDC webpage introduced new language suggesting the scientific question remains open, but this revision was widely criticized by medical and advocacy organizations as cont…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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