The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is funding a study on the widely debunked idea that vaccines cause autism, according to a government funding notice.

While numerous large studies have disproved a connection between autism and vaccines — a cornerstone of the anti-vaccine movement — Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has continued to promote the possibility of a link.

Kennedy has promised that the federal government will release a report detailing the causes of autism later this month, though Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary said HHS has not started writing the report.

The CDC on Thursday posted a notice of intent to award a sole source, fixed price contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y.

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