Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly personally taking credit for scrubbing a statement that “vaccines don’t cause autism” from the Centers for Disease Control web site.

The controversial vaccine skeptic said he ordered the change because he believes there could be a link between childhood vaccinations and rising autism rates , even though public health experts widely agree that any such link has been ruled out, the New York Times reported on Friday.

“The whole thing about ‘vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,’ is just a lie,” Kennedy told the paper in an interview conducted on Thursday. “The phrase ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not supported by science.”

Kennedy added that the best way to convince parents to vaccinate their childre

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