The guidance essentially reversed

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Bad Kennedy is getting his wish.

Before Nov. 19, 2025, the CDC’s website was unequivocal on the topic: “Studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder,” it read. After Nov. 19, the guidance essentially reversed. “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,” it now says. “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”

That claim, reflecting the longstanding vaccine-skeptical views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is false. But new research published in the journal Science suggests that it’s affecting what Americans believe about vaccines.  

Well it would be, wouldn’t it. There’s no vaccine to protect against bullshit.

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    Omar

    Well it would be, wouldn’t it. There’s no vaccine to protect against bullshit.

    Nor, it appears, would it suit Kennedy to preside over the development of one.

    And from the linked Time article:

    “What concerns me is not only the immediate effect on vaccine attitudes, but also the broader downstream effects: reduced trust in the CDC and greater endorsement of science-denial practices may shape how people will engage, or not engage, with information about vaccines more generally,” says Robert Böhm, professor of psychology at the University of Vienna, who led the new study.

    In other words, Kennedy and his fellow antivaxxers are in reality trying to usher in a new Dark Age in medicine.

    How long will it be before cries of: “Bring out your dead” are heard in American cities, as they were during the years of the Black Death in Europe, 1346-1353?

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