Washington, D.C. – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. openly acknowledged that he personally ordered the CDC to rewrite its vaccine-autism webpage, boasting in a New York Times interview that he directed the agency to contradict decades of scientific research showing no link between vaccines and autism. The admission immediately escalated concerns among medical experts, who say the change misleads the public and promotes a thoroughly debunked theory long associated with anti-vaccine misinformation.
Kennedy conceded that numerous rigorous studies have found no connection between autism and childhood vaccines, thimerosal, or the MMR shot. Still, he claimed “gaps” remain in safety research, despite overwhelming scientific consensus to the contrary. The revised CDC page now frames the long-established conclusion — that vaccines do not cause autism — as unsupported, suggesting officials have ignored evidence. Public health groups say that assertion is false.
Researchers stressed that no environmental factor has been studied more extensively than vaccines. The Autism Science Foundation reiterated Thursday that decades of research consistently demonstrate no link of any kind. Experts say Kennedy is exploiting scientific limitations around proving negatives to sow doubt.
The rewrite also contradicts commitments Kennedy made to Sen. Bill Cassidy during his confirmation. Cassidy condemned the change, warning that false claims about autism and vaccines “actively make Americans sicker.”
Kennedy has taken several steps to undermine federal vaccine infrastructure, pulling funding, removing advisory committees, and firing CDC Director Susan Monarez. Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics called the update “madness,” saying it spreads misinformation from within the federal government itself.
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