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Gillian BranstetteronBluesky1d ago
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
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Analysis Summary
RFK Jr., now health secretary, proposed spending $5 billion through the NIH to investigate the vaccine-autism link — a hypothesis comprehensively debunked by decades of research. The amount would consume over 10% of NIH's total annual budget on a question already settled by science. Multiple outlets including Reuters, The Independent, and The Guardian have confirmed this proposal came from insider accounts of Kennedy's broader push to dismantle federal immunization policy.
Claims Analysis (2)
“RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion to finding a link between vaccines and autism.”
Multiple T1 outlets (Independent, Reuters via linked article, Guardian) confirm RFK Jr. proposed $5 billion for vaccine-autism research. This is well-sourced reporting from named officials.
“This would have dedicated more than a tenth of NIH's annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide.”
Multiple sources confirm the $5 billion figure represents over 10% of NIH's annual budget (~$47 billion). The vaccine-autism link has been comprehensively refuted by decades of research and is scientific consensus. Both facts are accurate.
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