To: Acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Remove Vaccine Misinformation from the CDC Website!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has rewritten its own guidance on autism and vaccines, replacing decades of science-backed reassurance with FALSE and misleading claims.
These aren’t minor edits. The changes are a reversal of settled science, and it’s further eroding public trust in the agency responsible for protecting our health.
Tell the Acting CDC Director to restore accurate, evidence-based information to the CDC’s website now!
Why is this important?
The CDC’s "Autism and Vaccines" page used to reflect what decades of rigorous research have shown. Now it’s been quietly rewritten to include a reckless line that it is “not an evidence-based claim” to say that there is no connection between vaccines and autism.
That’s a fundamental distortion of what the evidence has repeatedly revealed and what the medical community at-large promotes.
The CDC won’t say it, but we will: Vaccines do not cause autism.
No environmental factor has been studied more thoroughly as a potential cause of autism than vaccines. Multiple studies, across multiple countries, with different populations and age groups, have all reached the same conclusion: There is no link.
These changes to the CDC’s webpage will have dire consequences. Vaccine hesitancy is already a growing threat to public health, putting young children, immunocompromised people, and older adults at greater risk of preventable disease.
Sign the petition now calling on Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to remove the misinformation and restore accurate, evidence-based content to the CDC’s autism and vaccines webpage!