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HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s team altered the CDC website language on vaccines and autism without public notice. The edit removed references to scientific consensus rejecting the discredited link.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s team altered CDC website language about vaccines and autism without announcing the change or public comment period. The edits removed references to scientific consensus rejecting the vaccine-autism connection — a debunked link RFK Jr. has long promoted. The stealth nature of the edit meant most people wouldn't notice the shift.
This is classic agency capture: installing someone hostile to an institution's core mission and watching them quietly reshape its messaging from within. The CDC's authority depends partly on being seen as independent from political pressure. When the secretary of health has long promoted the exact claim the CDC spent years debunking, and then the website language softens without explanation, it looks like the institution's credibility was compromised. The quiet edit is worse than a loud announcement because it signals confidence that nobody will notice or care.
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