Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., personally ordered the Centers for Disease Control to alter language on a webpage that said vaccines do not cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview Thursday.

The update to the CDC website removed the text that said there is no link between autism and vaccines. The site now says instead, that the claim is “not evidence based,” a position at odds with years of scientific consensus and researchers who have investigated this issue at length. Related Story

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The secretary revealed his role in the change during an interview with the Times, in which he said that he had talked with Senate health committee chair Bill Ca

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