CDC replaces website on vaccines and autism
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The agency’s revamped vaccine-safety page enshrines Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s fringe beliefs as government guidance.
A previous version denied a link between vaccines and autism. It now echoes the doubts about that conclusion voiced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A new survey conducted by Pew Research Center highlights some of the biggest issues in the ongoing controversy over vaccines—and shows that politics continues to have an outsized influence on how people think about and make decisions about getting immunized.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, said he’s “very concerned” about this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their potential vote to change vaccine recommendations for infants and children.
With the government reopening, the dubious panel of vaccine advisors selected by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is wasting no time getting back to dismantling the federal childhood vaccine schedule.