The long, sordid antivaccine history of Donald Trump

Basically, like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Donald Trump subscribes to a notion that has been massively discredited from a scientific standpoint. Mercury in vaccines does not cause autism. Like Andrew Wakefield, he believes that the MMR is associated with autism, no matter how much that idea has failed to hold up to scientific scrutiny. I realize that criticizing Donald Trump for being an antiscience idiot is rather akin to criticizing water for being wet or Donald Trump’s hair for having a life of its own—particularly when he’s preoccupied with real science.