The way I heard it it was Big Pharma and the CDC doing the lying. And also the "failure to investigate" due to so much money riding on it.
I wouldn't have revisited the issue (considering it 'debunked' per the MSM) except the whole Covid Vaccine Debacle really made me question what was really going on.
It isn't a pretty picture.
Doing "the actual science" is a small price to pay if we can reduce the rapidly increasing rate of autism.