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Cheryl Atkison is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and author known for her

Fearless, and it is Fearless, Reporting and her commitment to holding the powerful accountable.

A former correspondent for CBS News, she was at CNN, she was at PBS,

she now hosts the Sunday TV program Full Measure and the Full Measure After Hours podcast

where she continues doing what she did, tackling stories that those in the mainstream media won't or can't.

One of the stories she's covered is about the correlation between vaccines and autism.

One of the things we do here on the show is amplify the work of other people.

If you enjoy this, I encourage you,

At Kisson is not easy to spell. It's A-T-K-I-S-S-O-N, but you can find, and Cheryl, her first

name is not easy either. It's S-H-A-R-Y-L. But her work is all online.

I encourage you to support her to watch more of what she's done.

She does great, just brilliant investigative work.

And hopefully we're going to deliver her some new fans after today by amplifying her work.

Here we go.

Year after year, autism continues to rise at an alarming rate in American children.

One fact, few would dispute. So why is the topic so toxic in debate?

If you would want to hold a hearing on an issue like vaccines and autism, your own leadership might fight you on that because of the financial influence,

the pharmaceutical industry? No, they wouldn't fight you. They would kill it. It's dead. This week,

we tackle the taboo subject of autism and links to vaccines as the Trump administration's CDC

begins to actually follow the science.

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