‘Gold Standard Science!’ RFK Jr. Lauds New Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to split up the Measels, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) childhood vaccines and to further study autism rates in what Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called a win for “gold standard science.”

During the Oval Office signing, Trump drew a line between vaccines and autism, saying, “I wanna find what’s going on with autism. It’s many, many times what it used to be years ago, and it gets progressively worse, and we’ve had progressively more and more vaccines.”

During his remarks, RFK Jr. said he’s fast-tracking studies into vaccines and autism.

“NIH has launched the Autism Data Science Initiative with 13 research awards examining autism prevalence, causes, treatments and services,” Kennedy said. “These will include vaccines among the potential factors that they examine.”

“We will examine every biologically plausible hypothesis and leave no legitimate scientific question unexplored. Mr. President, you have told us you want answers, and so do I. We have just over two years to finish the work and I know you’re impatient, and we’re moving with an urgency that that deadline demands,” he said, continuing:

We will bring you actions and findings as soon as they are ready. We will not wait for the 90-day period. Within 90 days as you have directed, we will deliver the full response required by this executive order. Our task force on safer childhood vaccines was established by Congress in 1986 and went dormant in 1998. Last year after nearly three decades, this administration reinstated, its required by the statutes and yet it was discontinued. It was — you restored that congressional mandate. The task force is already working to disband vaccine options, examine the timing and sequencing of childhood vaccines, strengthen safety monitoring, advanced research into alternative actives and benefits, using American and international evidence. Taken together, this is what gold standard science means.

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