{"id":9090,"date":"2025-04-01T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:00:26","slug":"who-is-david-geier-the-man-leading-federal-autism-vaccine-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/01\/who-is-david-geier-the-man-leading-federal-autism-vaccine-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is David Geier, the Man Leading Federal Autism-Vaccine Study?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/autism\/114853?xid=nl_secondopinion_2025-04-01&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=SecondOpinions_040125\">Medical News Today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discredited researcher, vaccine skeptic was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license. David Geier, a man without a medical degree who once was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbp.state.md.us\/BPQAPP\/orders\/GeierOrder07.302.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"disciplined by the Maryland State Board of Physicians, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disciplined by the Maryland State Board of Physicians<\/a>\u00a0for practicing medicine without a license, reportedly will lead a new HHS study to identify whether a relationship between vaccines and autism exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long promoted a link between vaccines and autism,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/autism\/113925\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"despite volumes of data, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">despite volumes of data<\/a>\u00a0showing the two are not associated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical News Today Discredited researcher, vaccine skeptic was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license. David Geier, a man without a medical degree who once was\u00a0disciplined by the Maryland State Board of Physicians\u00a0for practicing medicine without a license, reportedly will lead a new HHS study to identify whether a relationship between vaccines and autism exists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9092,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions\/9092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}