After the CDC publicly backed away from the stance that vaccines definitively do not cause autism last week, Boston Public Health Commissioner told residents to not trust the federal government’s preeminent health agency.

“The statements on the CDC’s webpage are now false,” Commissioner Bisola Ojikutu MD, MPH wrote in a statement posted to Facebook and Bluesky. “Under our current federal administration, the CDC is no longer a reliable and trustworthy source of information regarding vaccination.”

The CDC’s website was updated Wednesday to instead say that the statement “vaccines do not cause autism” is not “evidence-based.”

“Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities,” the site now says.

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