The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made a change to its website that is being celebrated by vaccine skeptics.

On its vaccine safety webpage on autism and vaccines, a new statement reads: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”

The page adds that, “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities” and says the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a “comprehensive assessment” to determine the cause of autism.

The revised language represents a notable shift in tone for the CDC, which for years has maintained that vaccines do not cause autism.

Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit founded by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy

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