RFK JR tells its favorite anti-Vaxin group to delete the Mock CDC website

The anti-vaxine lawyer and health secretary of the United States Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the non-profit organization, which once chaired to delete a web page that mimics the design of the disease control and prevention centers while mistakenly associated with autism vaccines. The New York Times earlier reported About development.

RFK Jr. has long been an outspoken skeptic about vaccines, despite scarce evidence supporting cause for concern. The Mock website has presented evidence that supports and dismantling autism, but much of the research that has been connected have not been reviewed.

This is a common strategy with conspiracy theorists – they pass some basic views that are undoubtedly true to create an aura of legitimacy for the more implicit statements that follow. Brian Johnson, the longevity guru, offers basic tips that are reasonable – have a complete night break, eat unprocessed foods – then veers In more fringe ideas It is not necessary to support myself by empirical evidence.

But protecting the health of children, the non-profit goal, which RFK Jr. has been leading for years, before giving away aside in 2023, has taken a rough step in creating a fake website designed to look like a true CDC fact sheet. From Your local epidemiologistIndependent substantive:

Obviously, even RFK, Jr., thought the web page was going too far. Or maybe it’s just that now, as the newly opened secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, he wants to use the institution and his newly opened power to control the story. CDC recently said it would Invest the link again between vaccines and autism.

It is also deadly Measles In the United States, they have something to do with the course of RFK Jr. The outbreak is concentrated in communities with low vaccination. In January an unvaccinated child of “school age” in Texas died of measles-first such death in the United States reported After a decade. Measles is highly infected and approximately 94% of the population must be vaccinated to prevent widespread transmission.

“Secretary Kennedy instructs the General Council Office to submit a formal request to the health protection of children demanding the removal of their website,” said the NYT Health and Human Services Division. “At HHS, we are dedicated to the restoration of our agencies in their tradition of maintaining a gold standard science based on evidence.”

RFK -Jr. during the Senate Hearing to confirm He said CDC would return to the Golden Standard Science and said it would support vaccines if data was shown to support their safety. But when presented with such evidence during the hearing, RFK Jr. would say that he did not see the data or quote reasons to doubt.