Longtime and controversial anti-vaccine activist David Geier is still working at the Department of Health and Human Services—and the agency is still refusing to specify exactly what he’s doing. In mid-April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Senate Finance Committee that he would give them a copy of Geier’s contract. According to a member of the committee, he has still not.

“Three weeks after Secretary Kennedy committed to providing details regarding David Geier’s work at HHS (something he committed to doing within 3 days), our office has yet to hear from HHS on anything related,” says a spokesperson for Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.).

Autism advocates have called Geier “a quack.”

Geier and his late father Mark, a physician who eventually lost his license, spent years presenting themselves as experts on alleged vaccine injuries and pursuing discredited and dangerous “treatments” for autism in children, including Lupron, a drug that inhibits testosterone production and is used to chemically castrate sex offenders.

From Mark’s home in DC’s Maryland suburbs, the pair presented themselves as experts on autism, running organizations with serious-sounding names, including the Institute for Chronic Illness and the Genetic Centers of America. Their work has been........

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