Trump’s CDC Pick Is Pushing Vaccine-Autism ‘Lie,’ Senator Says

Dave Weldon, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the country’s top public health agency, said in a recent meeting that he still believes the debunked theory that the childhood immunization schedule may be linked to autism, according to a Democratic senator in attendance.

Weldon told Senator Patty Murray that children may be exposed to toxic levels of mercury through the US government’s recommended immunization schedule, even though mercury hasn’t been used in childhood vaccines for nearly 25 years in the US. Weldon’s comments indicate his long-held vaccine skepticism hasn’t changed despite ample evidence contradicting this view.