WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/25/vaccine-skeptic-hhs-rfk-immunization-autism/
Archive link: https://archive.ph/l3Ute
In news that should be shocking to absolutely no one, RFK's HHS has reportedly hired a long-time anti-vaccine campaigner to run their "study" on vaccines and autism. They have also not announced this publicly and officials in the agency are afraid to speak out. Tough to imagine a more bad-faith appointee than this one without appointing Wakefield himself.
Some highlights from the top of the article:
The Department of Health and Human Services has hired David Geier to conduct the analysis, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Geier and his father, Mark Geier, have published papers claiming vaccines increase the risk of autism, a theory that has been studied for decades and scientifically debunked.
David Geier was disciplined by Maryland regulators more than a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license
As an aside, you may recall Scott Weldon, the former representative whose nomination to the FDA was pulled on the day of his confirmation hearing. He has an interesting connection to Geier:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-dave-weldon-director-rfkjr-vaccine-senate-hearing-rcna195877
According to an account in the 2004 book “Evidence of Harm” by journalist David Kirby, Weldon actively intervened to help anti-vaccine researchers Dr. Mark Geier and his son David access the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a CDC-housed dataset containing patient health records. This raw data is available to researchers, but it isn’t public because of concerns over privacy, misrepresentation of data, and manpower.