Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is not a dictator. That’s unfortunate, because he has to rely on entrenched systems and advisory panels staffed by religious zealots who are virtually immovable in their thinking. The Centers for Disease Control’s ACIP panel held an important meeting this week over needlessly inoculating newborn babies against a sexually transmitted disease (Hepatitis B) at the moment of birth. The results were a disaster for American families.
As soon as the HepB vaccine was invented back in 1991, the CDC recommended injecting all babies with it, within 24 hours of birth. There are only three ways that a person really catches Hepatitis B. The two main ones are being a filthy junkie and sharing dirty needles with other filthy junkies, or knockin’ boots with a homeless person out behind the trash dumpster. In extremely rare cases, a mother who engages in those first two activities can transmit Hepatitis B to her baby during birth.
There are two important scientific facts to keep in mind here, and these facts were presented to the ACIP panel on Thursday. First, boys who are given the HepB vaccine at birth are 300% more likely to develop autism than boys who don’t receive it. That is a fact. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is lying.
Second, when they began mass-vaccinating babies for HepB in 1991, the condition affected 0.5% of all newborns. In 2025, the condition affects… 0.5% of all newborns.
Despite the mass inoculation of American babies with an autism-causing vaccine for the past 34 years, the number of babies contracting Hepatitis B has never budged.
The problem is not the babies. The problem lies with not screening the mothers.
88% of pregnant women are screened for Hepatitis B in America. Wouldn’t a more sensible public health policy be to expand screening to cover those additional 12% of women, instead of giving a vaccine that 99.5% of babies do not need?
Safety trials were never done on the Hepatitis B vaccine for infants. The disease peaked in the United States in about 1986, at the height of the crack epidemic in inner cities. There were 26,000 HepB cases that year. There were fewer than 4,000 in 2024. Cases started declining dramatically before the HepB vaccine was introduced in 1991.
That’s because public health officials got more proactive about AIDS. Young people in the 15-29 age range started engaging in safe sex practices, and what do you know! Hepatitis B rates in that category dropped like a stone, with no vaccine necessary. Cities started doing clean needle exchanges for filthy junkies, and rates fell even further.
There’s also a third, highly effective method that’s going to reduce Hepatitis B cases even more, although some people are upset about it:
Many parents in the autism community were excited about this ACIP meeting. Unfortunately, the board voted 8-2 to move the Hepatitis B vaccination up to two months after a baby is born, if the mother tests negative. In other words, babies will be mass-vaccinated at two months instead of within 24 hours of birth.
This will do nothing to reduce cases of Hepatitis B or autism in America. It was a nothingburger of a decision.
Not that the vaccine fanatics aren’t screeching about it. The American Academy of Pediatrics claims that the move will expose young children to an infection that can cause lifelong illness.
Will it? If your child doesn’t have sex with hobos out behind the trash dumpster and doesn’t inject bloody drug needles into their arm, it seems like they’re at zero risk of ever contracting this disease. Those seem like preventable behaviors that don’t even require a vaccine that can give your child autism. I may not be the world’s best parenting expert, but none of my kids do those things. I’m pretty sure they never will. Have you tried… I don’t know… talking to your children?
Anyway, the vote was a huge disappointment to parents who want more action taken against the CDC’s ridiculous vaccine schedule. The ACIP panel knows that the HepB vaccine causes autism and that it doesn’t reduce the number of children getting the disease. The only possible benefit from this decision that we might see is that the number of SIDS deaths in America (which are caused by infant vaccines) could decline a little bit. But we’ll have to wait a couple of years before we know.