1 / 10 Vaccines Cause Autism

Trump is a <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-vaccines_n_57e1666ce4b04a1497b6e725">firm believer</a> in the notion that vaccines cause autism, a theory that has long been debunked and traces its roots back to a retracted 1998 article in a medical journal.<br> <br>"We had so many instances, people that work for me, just the other day ... a beautiful child went to have the vaccine and came back, and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-debate-vaccines_n_55fa2b36e4b00310edf5c111">now is autistic</a>," Trump said at a Republican presidential primary debate last fall.<br><br>It was only one of many times the candidate has claimed that <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-vaccines_n_57e1666ce4b04a1497b6e725">vaccines are toxic and can cause autism</a> in children.

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