The latest hyperbolic, astro-turfed firestorm over RFK Jr.’s alleged “anti-science” hostile takeover of the nation’s Public Health™ apparatus pertains to a modest revision to the CDC website amending the agency’s position on vaccines and autism to say that the claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is “not an evidence-based claim,” accompanied by promises of additional forthcoming follow-up studies.
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Via Centers for Disease Control (emphasis added):
Pursuant to the Data Quality Act (DQA), which requires federal agencies to ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information they disseminate to the public, this webpage has been updated because the statement "Vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim. Scientific studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of autism. However, this statement has historically been disseminated by the CDC and other federal health agencies within HHS to prevent vaccine hesitancy.
HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links. This webpage will be updated with gold-standard science that results from the HHS comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism as required by the DQA.
Of course, the condemnation from the legacy Public Health™ authorities, clinging bitterly to relevance in the public discourse, their former iron grip on it a faded memory, has been swift.
Via the British Medical Journal (emphasis added):
Leading medical research organisations and advocacy groups criticised the change and sought to remind the public that decades of research had established no link between autism and vaccines.
Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Paediatrics, said, “Since 1998 independent researchers across seven countries have conducted more than 40 high quality studies involving over 5.6 million people.
“The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: there’s no link between vaccines and autism.
“We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt about one of the best tools we have to keep children healthy and thriving: routine immunisations.”…
“The science is clear that vaccines do not cause autism. No environmental factor has been better studied as a potential cause of autism than vaccines,” the Autism Science Foundation said in a statement.
Several former senior CDC officials—including the organisation’s former chief medical officer Debra Houry—said the change is the latest example of the growing politicisation of public health under President Donald Trump and vaccine sceptic health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“Public health communication must be accurate, evidence based, and free from political distortion. Anything less erodes trust and puts lives at risk,” she said.
Setting aside the debate itself over vaccines and autism for another day, consider the audacity of such a statement.
“Public health communication must be accurate, evidence based, and free from political distortion,” says the former CDC chief medical officer, with no sense of self-awareness.
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“Free from political distortion…” like when Anthony Fauci and Co. invented the “six feet social distancing” standard quite literally out of whole cloth in order to instill maximum terror by subconsciously programming the public to fear basic human interactions?
Was it not “political distortion” when the president of the United States issued a thinly veiled threat that “our patience is wearing thin” regarding a so-called vaccine (not a real sterilizing vaccine) that didn’t actually prevent transmission of a virus, despite relentless lies to the contrary? How about when Biden CDC Director Mandy Cohen mused about whimsically denying Americans their right to congregate in public based on casual conversations with her peers?New CDC Director Mandy Cohen recalls how she and her colleagues came up with COVID mandates during her time as NC Health Director.
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“Political distortion”?
That ship sailed a long time ago, along with any legitimate claim for these people to complain about it.
