'Where is the science?': Robert De Niro questions vaccine safety and offers $100k for anyone who can confirm they are safe for children
- Actor Robert De Niro again questions vaccine safety in new interview
- De Niro, whose son has autism, has in past proposed link to the condition
- 'Who settled it, how was it settled? Where is the science?' says De Niro, 73
- 'I take vaccines all the time,' but 'there's something wrong, it's gotta be fixed'
- This despite clear scientific evidence that vaccines do not cause autism
Robert De Niro is again promoting the theory that there is a link between vaccines and autism.
'Who settled it, how was it settled? Where is the science?' the actor replied when asked by veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson about the overwhelming evidence that vaccines are safe, as revealed in an advance clip of Full Measure's Sunday episode obtained by Page Six.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated definitively that vaccines do not cause autism.
But the 'anti-vaxxer' movement that De Niro increasingly associates with argues that there is a massive scientific cover-up and conspiracy hiding the dangers of vaccines.
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!['Who settled it, how was it settled? Where is the science?' Robert De Niro said of vaccine safety in a new interview. The actor has previously backed an anti-vaccination documentary](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220020227/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/18/21/3D64B8B900000578-0-image-a-1_1487452208071.jpg)
'Who settled it, how was it settled? Where is the science?' Robert De Niro said of vaccine safety in a new interview. The actor has previously backed an anti-vaccination documentary
![De Niro's comments to veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson (right) come in spite of a definitive statement from the CDC that vaccines do not cause autism](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220020227/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/18/21/3D64B8C200000578-0-image-a-2_1487452298623.jpg)
De Niro's comments to veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson (right) come in spite of a definitive statement from the CDC that vaccines do not cause autism
![De Niro (center) has said that his experience as a father influenced his beliefs. His son Elliot (left) showed symptoms of autism around the time he was vaccinated, he said.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170220020227/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/18/21/3D64B8A500000578-0-image-a-3_1487452309767.jpg)
De Niro (center) has said that his experience as a father influenced his beliefs. His son Elliot (left) showed symptoms of autism around the time he was vaccinated, he said.
The actor recently backed the anti-vaccination film 'Vaxxed,' which was last month pulled from a London theater over outcry from scientists.
He's previously said that his own son's onset of autism around the time of certain vaccinations led him to question vaccine safety.
'Here's what we have from all these studies, and here's what they have. And so it seem's like something's not right,' the said the actor in his latest interview.
'I'm not anti-vaccine, I take vaccines all the time,' De Niro clarified. 'But there's something wrong, it's gotta be fixed.'
The two-time Academy Award winner also called for an 'independent commission' to investigate vaccine safety.
Earlier this week, he held a press conference in Washington, D.C. with Robert F. Kennedy Jr to offer a $100,000 reward for anyone who can offer 'proof' that vaccines are safe.
Kennedy has claimed he was invited by President Donald Trump to join a commission on vaccine safety, but a spokesperson later said that the discussion was preliminary.
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