"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly revised a vaccine safety page on its website to introduce language that suggests uncertainty over whether vaccines cause autism, echoing ideas promoted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic. Experts who spoke to Scientific American decried the changes as anti-science and potentially harmful. This is a tragedy, says University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm."
"The website change signals that truth carries no weight in the current and future discussions on vaccines, and because of that, Osterholm says, children will die. Previously, the CDC webpage cited decades of research showing that vaccines do not cause autism. The new version, which was apparently updated on Wednesday, states that the claim vaccines do not cause autism is not evidence-based and that studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities."
The CDC revised a vaccine safety webpage to include language suggesting uncertainty about whether vaccines cause autism, echoing ideas promoted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Public-health experts described the change as anti-science and potentially harmful. University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm warned that the shift rejects decades of evidence and could decrease vaccine uptake, posing risks to children. Previously, the CDC page cited decades of research finding no autism-vaccine link. The new wording states that the assertion vaccines do not cause autism is not evidence-based and claims that studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
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