The Record
Reporting, posts and video from the researchers, physicians and organizations leading this fight, in one place. Every item links to the original. Items marked AJF Original are our own reporting.
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This is the McCullough Foundation’s newest paper, posted today, and it uses the federal government’s own National Health Interview Survey rather than a private dataset. That makes it easy for anyone, including HHS, to check. It is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed yet.
The administration promised a hard look at what causes autism. The money is now committed, and it is worth being precise about where it went: the largest federal award pool of the year funds thirteen projects, and not one of them studies vaccines. The vaccine question sits with a separate, much smaller contract that has yet to report anything.
PostIn the span of six weeks the President signed an order cutting routine childhood vaccines from 18 diseases to 11, then stood beside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and proposed splitting shots into five smaller doses. A viral clip called it a schedule of 72 shots reduced to 11 “by the stroke of a pen.” That is the biggest shift in federal vaccine posture in a generation, and it is also not yet law. Here is the record, and the reaction, side by side.
Nicolas Hulscher has become the reform movement's most-requested expert witness, appearing before both the U.S. Senate and the Michigan House inside a single year. Behind those appearances is a specific, checkable body of published work, and readers deserve to see what it actually consists of rather than take the label 'epidemiologist' on faith.
A sitting HHS Secretary telling a movement conference that his agency is investigating vaccine-autism links is itself the story, a reversal of decades of federal posture, stated in his own words.
The vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated argument is now moving from journals into sworn testimony before state legislatures, exactly the venue where school-mandate policy is decided.
This is the first time a President, rather than an advisory committee, has set the shape of the childhood vaccine schedule by executive action. Whatever the courts decide about the ACIP votes, the order itself is now part of the permanent record and worth reading in full.
Aluminum adjuvants are the movement's newest scientific front, a shift from the older thimerosal argument toward the mechanism debate now driving federal research requests.
The autism-vaccine question is no longer confined to advocacy conferences. It now surfaces in sworn testimony before House and Senate committees, and how the Secretary and other nominees answer under oath goes straight into the public record.
The Vaccine Injury Table defines what the government will compensate. A petition to expand it by hundreds of conditions, filed by petitioners aligned with the HHS Secretary, would reshape the entire no-fault compensation system if adopted.
The reform movement's biggest structural wins of 2026, the rewritten schedule and the hepatitis B birth-dose change, are on hold, not repealed. Tracking what is actually in force, versus what is contested in court, is central to reporting this moment honestly.
The legislative path stalled, but the executive-branch path did not, showing how vaccine policy is now being rewritten through administrative rule when statutes hold.