Trump missed mark on autism

Posted on September 17, 2015

Much of America was asleep when, toward the end of the GOP presidential debate Wednesday night, Donald Trump made – as if he were asleep – a connection between vaccines and autism.

As evidence of the connection, he spoke of a two-year-old child who, after getting a vaccine, came down with a fever and “now is autistic.”

Trump then said that by administering vaccines “over a longer period of time … in little sections … I think you’re going to