Steve Kirsch Challenges CDC: "We Can't Find an Unvaccinated Amish Child With Autism"

Tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch demanded answers on why vaccinated and unvaccinated children have never been properly compared, pointing to the Amish as a largely unvaccinated population where he says autism and chronic disease are virtually nonexistent. Fact-checkers dispute his claims.

Steve Kirsch just put the CDC on blast.

Testifying before lawmakers, the tech entrepreneur challenged health officials to explain why America has never seen a proper study comparing the health of fully vaccinated children against completely unvaccinated ones.

"The Amish are a perfect example of a large group of people who are largely unvaccinated," Kirsch testified. "We can't find an autistic kid who was unvaccinated."

He went further: autism, ADD, autoimmune disease, PANDAS, and epilepsy are "very, very rare" — practically nonexistent — in Amish communities, he claimed.

Then came the accusation. The U.S. government has been studying the Amish for decades, Kirsch said, but no report has ever been released to the public.

"The reason, of course, is it would show that if you don't follow our guidelines, you're going to end up healthier," he said. "The report would be devastating to the narrative."

Kirsch noted that less than 1% of the American public is completely unvaccinated — making the Amish one of the only large populations available for comparison.

To be clear: fact-checkers have pushed back hard on Kirsch's claims. Science Feedback rated them inaccurate, noting that a substantial share of Amish parents do vaccinate their children and that cases of autism, cancer, and diabetes have been documented among the Amish.

But Kirsch's core question still stands unanswered: where is the vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated study?