Meet some of the people featured in the November 2018 issue of The Scientist.

In a new book, a vaccine researcher describes the scientific facts and personal anecdotes behind his family’s experience with autism and its comorbid disabilities.

Advances in microbiome research are increasingly used in anti-vaccination arguments, yet the science actually undermines the premise of the argument.

Scientists criticize unconfirmed reports that President-elect Donald Trump has asked Robert Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, to investigate vaccine safety.

Oncologists have raised concerns about a mouse study that suggests the vaccine for human papillomavirus could cause brain damage.

As Inauguration Day nears, scientists and science advocates are voicing their unease with the Trump Administration’s potential effects on research.

This one will be largely based on the discredited anti-vaccine researcher’s 2010 book.

Police are calling the death of James Bradstreet, a physician who claimed vaccines cause autism and offered autism cures to patients, an apparent suicide.

A biologist who offered €100,000 to anyone who could prove that measles is a virus must pony up, a German court says.