LOADING ERROR LOADINGA tweak to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website suggesting there’s a link between vaccines and autism came directly from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he says. AdvertisementKennedy tried to thread the needle in his interview with the Times, emphasizing that he’s not saying vaccines cause autism, rather that he doesn’t believe the claim that they don’t. On Wednesday, at RFK’s direction, the CDC amended a website dedicated to “Autism and Vaccines” to suggest there’s a causal link between the two. Advertisement“The statement ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim,” the website now reads. There is no single cause of autism, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Source: Huffington Post November 21, 2025 22:28 UTC