Health and Human Services⁢ Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally instructed the Centers for Disease ⁤Control and Prevention (CDC) ⁣to alter language on a webpage concerning the link between vaccines and autism, according to an interview with The ⁣New York Times published Thursday, November 21, 2025.

The revised CDC website now states that the assertion "vaccines do not cause autism" is "not ⁣an evidence-based ⁤claim."⁢ This change represents ⁤a meaningful departure from decades of scientific research and⁤ the established consensus of⁤ the⁣ medical and scientific communities. The ⁤updated page also alleges that government health authorities have historically disregarded a potential connection between ⁣vaccines and ⁢autism.