Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

The White House is drafting an executive order on childhood vaccines, autism research, and parental choice, according to Bloomberg and The Washington Post. The reports cite unnamed sources familiar with the efforts, and the administration could issue the order as soon as next week. But decades of rigorous research involving millions of children worldwide have consistently found no link between childhood vaccines and autism. The original claim came from an unethical, fraudulent study that was retracted years ago, and its author was stripped of his medical license.

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