“The Amish are a perfect example of a large group of people who are largely unvaccinated and there's no autism.”
What FactCheck.org found
The rate of autism is the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated kids. But the false claim that vaccines are associated with autism persists, including a recent claim that it’s virtually nonexistent among the unvaccinated.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Steve Kirsch (Entrepreneur) made this claim around 9 June 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 July 2023, 42 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Steve Kirsch has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.