NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change, after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday that defies scientific consensus. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, has upended the public health agencies he oversees and pushed for and enacted changes that have unsettled much of the medical community, which sees his policies as harmful for Americans.
“The whole thing about ‘vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,’ is just a lie,” Kennedy said in the interview, which was conducted Thursday.
The CDC’s “vaccine safety” page now claims that the statement “vaccines do not cause autism” is not based on evidence because it doesn’t rule out the possibility that infant vaccines are linked to the disorder. The page also has been updated to suggest that health officials have ignored studies showing a potential link.
41 Comments
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 104 pts · 271d
This moron
is a danger to people.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 23 pts · 271d
It starts with the one at the top, who won't hire anyone smarter than he is because he's always wants to feel like he's the smartest person in the room. Really tells you something about all the MAGAts who voted for him because they think he's rich due to being so smart
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 271d
No shit
tal@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 271d
"I am also having my office produce an 'I did that' sticker for myself by way of totally driving the point home, in case anyone has any doubts."
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 271d
No, it's all shit. Bullshit.
MAGA: Making America Gross Again.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 43 pts · 271d
I'm beginning to think that the USA is in real trouble
pfc_hudson@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 271d
To reiterate, no shit!
It began when he came down the escalator.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 271d
If that guy could win a presidential election, the trouble began much earlier.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 271d
It did, with Gwen Stefani on The Voice.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 271d
beginning??
have you been in a coma the last nine years?
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 6 pts · 271d
I mean in a more immediate and in-the-face way
You know how things die slowly, then all at once?
IronBird@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 271d
it's definitely collapsing, been going on for awhile too.
ICE dissappearing people...saw that happen to some random kid on the streets of boston at the exact same time as the yuppies were doing their much publicized No Kings marches. (i imagine the powers that be in these cities are basically greenlighting ICE to go ham, long as they stay out of the richest neighborhoods).
because everyones just kind of coping on this idea that everything will return to normal (normal here being completely unsustainable ratfucking) when trump dies...personally i dont see it.
these motherfuckers said themselves they won't be removed peacefully.
and while i briefly entertained the idea of helping the good guys...tbh, to me it doesn't look like the US wants to be saved, and as anyone who has experience extending their help to strangers can tell you...you can't help someone who doesn't even think they have a problem.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 271d
Nine? This goes back to Nixon era!
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · -2 pts · 271d
Well, that it took you this long to figure that out seems an apt demonstration of why we're here.
EDIT: Geez - you guys can't tell when someone's going along with the joke, can you?
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 271d
jdredbeard@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 271d
God damn, I forgot about Rosemary. Not all Kennedys are evil as fuck, but that's one fucking evil family
theneverfox@pawb.social · 37 pts · 271d
Really? Here I thought it came from the scientists, not the insane guy put in charge
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 27 pts · 271d
This dumbfuck doesn't understand that science can't fully rule anything out. That's why science continues to evolve, and things we once thought were true change over time as we get more evidence.
Science explains what we see in the world, it doesn't magically explain every possible outcome of every possible thing we look at.
No shit you can't "rule out the possibility", because you can't have an omnipotent view of every possible way every chemical reaction occurs ever between any infant and any vaccine.
What we can do, is look at how vaccines and autism rates are correlated, engage in numerous studies, and find out that there is no observable causal link between the two, or even a statistically significant correlation. That is the closest we can possibly get to "ruling it out."
You wanna know what there is an observable causal link for? Viruses killing people that would otherwise not have gotten sick from the virus had they gotten the vaccine.
Jfc we are so cooked as a nation.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 271d
What happened to Tylenol?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 271d
Announcement that Tylenol causes autism, Sept 25th.
Nov 10th. Tylenol does not cause autism study comes out.
Nov. 25th Kimberly Clark to aquire Tylenol.
Huh. Not saying there is anything to this, but.... Huh.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 271d
He is personally responsible for all the deaths that he causes.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 271d
USA is a joke now.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 271d
Not a very funny one.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 271d
"now"
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 271d
Oh good. Forget the brilliant folks doing their best to watch out for humanity using the accumulated knowledge of what we've learned, Bobby's going to wing it.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 271d
Don't lie rfk. We know the worms in control.
Davel23@fedia.io · 11 pts · 271d
Did he? Or was it the worm?
Stamau123@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 271d
He's more worm than man now
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 271d
The worm raised RFK's IQ by a few points.
sickday@fedia.io · 3 pts · 271d
I see. This must be The Golden Path
Bloefz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 271d
Well yeah, obviously. It clearly didn't come from anyone with any medical knowledge.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 271d
Great shit for brains is refusing to understand science again
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 271d
Using what? ChatGPT and a Ouija board?
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 271d
Yeah, we know. It has his stupid all over it.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 271d
He personally is not healthy.
Don't take health advice from sick people.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 271d
This is the way, back in 2002 I realized Dr Phil was full of shit. He would bring on 5 or 6 fat women, and do a show on losing weight.
They're taking weight loss advice from 350lbs Dr Phil.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d
Hoping American voters change this with next midterms. It’s up in o every American voter.
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 271d
Unless he commits a crime, RFK serves as long as Trump is in office and wants him there.
Trump won't be removed in the midterms. He's in until 2028 (well, early 2029).
You might --- probably will --- get Democrats taking the House and being able to launch investigations into some Trump administration stuff after the midterms. But they can't remove RFK.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 271d
Technically there are no legal ways to remove him. Plenty of ways he could be removed via illegal means, or through him being stupid wouldn't put it passed him eating roadkill and dieing of the black death.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d
Depends on whether a distraction will encourage them to sit it out.
Again.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
He will do as the brain worm commands
etherphon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
Why don't you direct your person right in front of a bus. Don't look at Dr. Oz behind the curtain who knows deep down it's most likely from an increasingly toxic environment full of chemicals but is too entranced by the grift.