CDC Breaks from Medical Consensus on Vaccine-Autism Link

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated a page on its website to suggest vaccines may cause autism, rejecting longstanding medical consensus on the topic and advancing a campaign from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The website change is the latest flash point in a battle between public health experts and advocates of the Make America Healthy Again movement who’ve long pushed debunked claims about vaccines. Kennedy has clashed with CDC staff, medical associations and scientists over his views on shots.