November 19, 2025
RFK Jr. breaks promise made during Senate confirmation, showing how political commitments get discarded once in power
RFK Jr. personally ordered the CDC on Nov. 19, 2025, to change its website stating vaccines cause autism is "not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility." The change contradicts decades of research involving 5.6 million people across 40+ studies.
RFK Jr. promised Sen. Bill Cassidy during confirmation that CDC wouldn't remove statements that vaccines don't cause autism.
The page keeps the header "Vaccines do not cause autism" with an asterisk noting it remains only "due to agreement with" Cassidy.
Career CDC scientists weren't consulted and learned about changes from media. Andrew Wakefield's 1998 Lancet paper linking MMR vaccine to autism was retracted for ethical violations and falsified data.
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