{"id":24867,"date":"2025-03-27T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24867"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T22:26:41","slug":"rfk-jr-turns-to-a-discredited-vaccine-researcher-for-autism-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24867","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.<\/p>\n

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A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement who has helped shape Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s thinking on a possible link to autism has joined his department to work on a study examining the long-debunked theory, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The new analyst, David Geier, has published numerous articles in the medical literature attempting to tie mercury in vaccines to autism. In 2012, state authorities in Maryland found that he had been practicing medicine without a license alongside his father, Mark Geier, who was a doctor at the time.<\/p>\n

Maryland authorities also suspended Mark Geier\u2019s medical license following claims that he endangered children with autism and exploited their parents, according to state records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Federal judges have rejected their research on autism and vaccines as too unreliable to stand up in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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David Geier\u2019s new government role has stunned public health experts, who had already expressed concerns about Mr. Kennedy\u2019s decisions to cancel a long-held vaccine meeting and to cut grants focused on understanding vaccine hesitancy.<\/p>\n

In addition, David Geier\u2019s involvement in government research heightens their fears that vaccine confidence could be further eroded, especially after Mr. Kennedy\u2019s recent embrace of questionable alternative treatments<\/a> for measles during the sprawling outbreak in Texas.<\/p>\n

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David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement who has helped shape Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s thinking on a possible link to autism has joined his department to work on a study examining the long-debunked theory, according to people familiar with the matter.The new analyst, David Geier, has published numerous articles in the medical literature attempting to tie mercury in vaccines to autism. In 2012, state authorities in Maryland found that he had been practicing medicine without a license alongside his father, Mark Geier, who was a doctor at the time.Maryland authorities also suspended Mark Geier\u2019s medical license following claims that he endangered children with autism and exploited their parents, according to state records.Federal judges have rejected their research on autism and vaccines as too unreliable to stand up in court.David Geier\u2019s new government role has stunned public health experts, who had already expressed concerns about Mr. Kennedy\u2019s decisions to cancel a long-held vaccine meeting and to cut grants focused on understanding vaccine hesitancy.In addition, David Geier\u2019s involvement in government research heightens their fears that vaccine confidence could be further eroded, especially after Mr. Kennedy\u2019s recent embrace of questionable alternative treatments for measles during the sprawling outbreak in Texas.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24870,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions\/24870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}