BOSTON —

Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein released an impassioned statement Thursday, reaffirming there is no link between childhood vaccines and autism despite a contradictory "update" to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website.

The CDC's webpage was updated on Wednesday to say, "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 claim sparked outrage among the medical and scientific communities.

"Such claims are factually incorrect and deliberately misleading," Goldstein said. "They contradict the global scientific consensus and undermine public confidence in vaccines...

For an official federal website to include such misinformatio

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