President-elect Donald Trump s skepticism about the safety of childhood vaccines contrasts not only with the scientific consensus, but also with the opinions of Americans fewer than one-quarter of whom think immunization should be a matter of personal choice.

By a more than 2-1 margin, 54 percent to 26 percent, Americans say that the science supporting the safety of childhood vaccination is indisputable, rather than something that requires future debate, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds, although partisan divides on the issue are widening.

Two-thirds of Americans say that the issue of vaccinating children is a matter of public health, with just 24 percent considering it a matter of personal choice. A 56 percent majority of those polled say they have at least a fair amount of trust in the government to set vaccination policies.

Among public health experts, theres little disagreement that immunization is safe and effective and one of the greatest public health achievements in modern times.

Trump has advocated the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism. Last week, he met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a proponent of the autism theory, and Kennedy told reporters that Trump had asked him to lead an official commission investigating vaccine safety.

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks sort of denied that Trump will create such a commission.

There is no decision made on this position or commission, she wrote in an email.