“1989 is the year the [autism] epidemic began. It’s a red line. And 1989 was the year the vaccine schedule exploded. That doesn’t mean that’s a correlation. It does not mean causation, but it is something that should be looked at.”
What FactCheck.org found
It's not possible to pinpoint the start of the increase in autism diagnoses to 1989. One vaccine was added to the vaccine schedule in 1989. And extensive research has failed to find a link between autism and vaccines.
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In short
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 15 June 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 August 2023, 56 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has 55 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 27 of them false or fake, 27 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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