On Wednesday, the agency reversed its long-held position that there's no link between vaccines and autism. Outside experts said they are appalled.
On Wednesday, the agency reversed its long-held position that there's no link between vaccines and autism. Outside experts said they are"appalled" by the change.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. faced backlash from the autism community after saying people with autism will never be able to do things like pay taxes or hold a job. News4’s Aimee Cho spoke with a D.C. family about their reaction to the secretary’s comments.that once stated unequivocally that vaccines do not cause autism has been rewritten and is now suggesting without evidence that health authorities “ignored” possible links between the shots and autism. “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,” the new language states.It posted Wednesday and was first reported by theThe webpage also notes that the Department of Health and Human Services has launched “a comprehensive assessment” to examine the causes of autism. It's unclear what the assessment will be or how it will be conducted. HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said the website had been updated “to reflect gold standard, evidence-based science.” A question about how the agency defines such science was not immediatedly answered.The Autism Science Foundation said in a statement that the group is “appalled” by the change, calling itanti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism.”The CDC has always been a trustworthy source of scientifically-backed information but it appears this is no longer the case,” Alison Singer, ASF’s president, said in the statement. “Spreading this misinformation will needlessly cause fear in parents of young children who may not be aware of the mountains of data exonerating vaccines as a cause of autism and who may withhold vaccines in response to this misinformation, putting their children at risk to contract and potentially die from vaccine preventable diseases.”
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