{"id":9412,"date":"2025-05-07T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9412"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:12:52","slug":"the-little-known-database-at-the-heart-of-kennedys-vaccine-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/07\/the-little-known-database-at-the-heart-of-kennedys-vaccine-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The little-known database at the heart of Kennedy\u2019s vaccine conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/kennedy-vaccine-safety-datalink-conspiracy-theory-rcna203411\">NBC News<\/a>  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long claimed a secret database holds the truth about vaccines and autism. Now that he&#8217;s in charge, his anti-vaccine supporters wonder \u2014 can he deliver?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For as long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause widespread harm \u2014 from autism to sudden death \u2014 he has pointed to the one source he says could immediately prove it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In speeches, interviews and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160328154622\/http:\/\/www.robertfkennedyjr.com\/articles\/2005_june_16.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"writings, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writings<\/a>, Kennedy has repeatedly claimed that the evidence of a massive public health cover-up lies buried in a little-known database of medical records of some 12 million Americans: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccine-safety-systems\/vsd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Vaccine Safety Datalink, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vaccine Safety Datalink<\/a>, or VSD. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor decades, the CDC has kept a tight grip on the Vaccine Safety Datalink, concealing vital vaccine safety information from the public,\u201d Kennedy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citynewsokc.com\/townnews\/literature\/science-speaks-on-vaccines----analysis\/article_34774402-4a9c-11ee-9eb2-27cc69c7b57a.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"said in 2023, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in 2023<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/kennedy-vaccine-safety-datalink-conspiracy-theory-rcna203411\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"DcGgv ZldkcGm \">DcGgv ZldkcGm <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long claimed a secret database holds the truth about vaccines and autism. Now that he&#8217;s in charge, his anti-vaccine supporters wonder \u2014 can he deliver? For as long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause widespread harm \u2014 from autism to sudden death \u2014 [&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-9412","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\/9412","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=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9413,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}