RFK Jr. says he told CDC to change position on vaccines and autism

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times that claims about vaccine safety were not supported by science.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview with the New York Times that he personally instructed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism.

Countering decades of science showing vaccines to be safe, the U.S. public health agency’s website was changed 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.”

In the interview, Kennedy said that while the large-scale epidemiological studies of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine had