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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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.
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.
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.
Florida is the test case for how far the reform agenda can move through a friendly legislature. This session showed both the momentum, a Senate-passed bill, and the ceiling: it stalled short of repealing school mandates.
PostThe Henry Ford Health birth-cohort study was discussed at the September 2025 Senate hearing, became the subject of Del Bigtree’s film “An Inconvenient Study,” and is the data Hulscher later presented to Michigan lawmakers. This paper is the written, citable version of that argument.
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.
The vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated comparison is the study design the reform movement has demanded for years. In 2025 that line of research was placed directly into the congressional record.
Expert testimony is how contested science becomes part of the legislative record. Hulscher’s appearance put the vaccine–autism reanalysis directly in front of federal lawmakers.
The clearest public account, under oath, of how far Kennedy has moved to remake the federal vaccine-advisory apparatus, and of the bipartisan resistance he faces.
The underlying congressional record is the document AJF returns to again and again; this entry links directly to the full government text.