State health officials are pushing back against the feds for their “factually incorrect and deliberately misleading” claims about vaccines and autism.

The CDC this week updated its webpage titled, “Autism and Vaccines.”

“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,” reads the CDC website. “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Medical Society and other health groups are rebuking these claims from the CDC.

“Vaccines do not cause autism, and there is no link between childhood vaccines and autism,” DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein said in a statement. “This has been proven repeatedly

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