"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don't cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday. RELATED: California health officials say Trump's claims linking Tylenol and autism are false and harmful His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC's website change, after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance"
"Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, has upended the public health agencies he oversees and pushed for and enacted changes that have unsettled much of the medical community, which sees his policies as harmful for Americans. The whole thing about vaccines have been tested and there's been this determination made,' is just a lie, Kennedy said in the interview, which was conducted Thursday."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its vaccine-autism guidance. The CDC's vaccine safety page now states that the claim that vaccines do not cause autism is not based on evidence because it does not rule out the possibility that infant vaccines are linked to the disorder. The page also suggests health officials have ignored studies showing a potential link. Public health researchers and advocates strongly refute the update as misleading and say it exploits the impossibility of proving a negative. Many current and former CDC staffers were surprised by the change. The Autism Science Foundation noted that no environmental factor has been better studied as a potential cause of autism, including vaccine ingredients and the body's response, and that decades of rigorous research consistently show no causal link between vaccines and autism.
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