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.
6 stories from Dr. Andrew Wakefield
Cultural work carries the argument to audiences that never read a study. “Protocol 7” puts the mumps-vaccine fraud allegations into a mainstream thriller format, a different front in the same debate.
Long before autism causation reached the White House, it was kept alive by private funders willing to be named. Gary Kompothecras is one of the most consequential of them, a father of children with autism who put his own money and access behind the research and films the establishment tried to bury.
The 2025 federal autism actions did not appear from nowhere. Their political origin traces directly to a January 2017 meeting and the network of advocates, Kennedy, Wakefield, and Florida donor Gary Kompothecras, who pressed the case a decade ago.
You cannot judge the current federal actions without the full timeline. This is the compressed history, both what was claimed and what was contested, in one place.
AJF anchors its case in the 107th Congress record on vaccines and the autism epidemic, the primary-source hearing text advocates point to when they argue the federal government has long been on notice.
WatchThe film is the Foundation’s central public-outreach vehicle, the piece screening at its launch, and the most widely seen argument for reexamining the 2004 CDC MMR data.