“There’s a study that came out last week of 47,000 9-year-olds in the Medicaid system in Florida — I think a Louisiana scientist called Mawson — that shows the opposite," meaning that vaccines cause autism.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services. congressional hearing. Claim dated 30 Jan 2025.
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In short
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services) made this claim around 30 January 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 January 2025, 1 day later. Its rating was “Flawed Paper”.
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.
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