Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed in an interview published Friday that he personally commanded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slap a notice on its website reversing the agency’s longstanding position that childhood vaccines do not cause autism.

“The whole thing about ‘vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,’ is just a lie,” Kennedy, 71, told the New York Times. “The phrase ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not supported by science.”

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr confirmed in an interview that he commanded the CDC reverse the agency’s stance that childhood vaccines do not cause autism. Getty Images

Beginning this week, the CDC’s “Vaccines and Autism” webpage contains three adm

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