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“Stop Calling It Autism”: How a Diagnosis Gets Renamed After a Theory
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Claim: autism is a vaccine brain injury and should be renamed to say so. Verdict: false (truth score 0.03, confidence 0.93).
We fact-check Bannon's War Room, Episode 5722 (8 October 2026). In it Steve Bannon quoted Brian Hooker of Children's Health Defense: "You got to stop calling it autism. It's a vaccine brain injury."
First, the strongest version of the other side. Vaccines do cause rare, real brain injuries. The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program lists encephalopathy as an…
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