Robert F Kennedy Jr instructed CDC to change stance on vaccines and autism

US health secretary said he told agency to update website to claim the fact vaccines do not cause autism is not evidence based

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, said in an interview with the New York Times that he personally instructed the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism.

Countering decades of science showing vaccines to be safe, the US 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."