Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the nation health, on Saturday he instructed the leaders of the non -profit who founded to break down a web page that imitated the design of the centers for the control of diseases and the prevention site, but presented a case that the vaccines cause autism.
The page had been published on an apparently recorded site on non-profit, the health defense for children of the anti-Vaccino group. Mr. Kennedy’s action came after the New York Times asked for information on the page and after the news bounced on social media.
The page was brought offline on Saturday evening.
“Secretary Kennedy has commissioned the office of the General Consultant to send a formal question to the defense of children’s health that requires the removal of their website,” said the Department of Health and Human Services in a note.
“In HHS we dedicate ourselves to restore our agencies to their tradition of supporting standard and evidence -based science,” says the declaration.
It was not clear why the anti-Vaccino group could have published a page that imitated the CDCs. The organization did not respond to the requests for comment and Kennedy said he had cut the ties with it when he started his presidential campaign in 2023.
The security page of fake vaccines was practically indistinguishable from that available on the CDC website. The layout, the typographical characters and the logos were the same, perhaps in violation of the federal copyright law.
While the CDC website refutes a connection between vaccines and autism, the impostor has left open the possibility that it exists. After all, he included connections to the video testimonies of the parents who believe that their children were damaged by vaccines.
The publication of the page was reported for the first time on Scadack by E. Rosalie Li, founder of the laboratory of Epidemiology of information. The non -profit did not immediately respond to a commentary request.
Kennedy has claimed for years that there is a link between vaccines and autism. He held that position during his confirmations of the Senate, despite the extended research that overwhelms the theory.
Under his direction, the CDC has recently announced his intention to review the evidence-a move that Senator Bill Cassidy, Louisiana Republican and President of the Senate Health Committee, said a waste of money.
The fake online web page presented the familiar Blue CDC banner through the upper part and the blue and white logo of the agency together with the words “Safety Safety”. The title read “vaccines and autism”.
The text established research both in support and a link between vaccines and autism, but left the possibility open – long ago refuted by scientists – that the blows were harmful.
He included a quote to a study by Brian S. Hooker, who is the scientific director of the defense of children’s health, and other critical vaccination studies.
“It is a mixture of things that are legitimately peer-reviewing and things that are fake,” said dr. Bruce Gellin, who directed the HHS vaccine program in Bush and Obama administrations.
“The foot notes give you the impression that it is a legitimate scientific work,” he added.
A series of testimonies at the bottom of the page presented videos with titles such as “mother of 3: I never go to vaccines” and “we signed her life”.
This is clearly contrasting with the official CDC website on autism and vaccines, which is largely dedicated to the debunking of the idea of a connection and clearly states that “studies have shown that there is no connection”.
Recently, the defense of children’s health has taken a position on the bursting of measles in western Texas.
The organization channel of the organization has published an interview on the camera with the parents of a 6 -year -old girl who was declared dead by measles by the State Health Department, the first Morbillo death reported to the United States in a decade.
The child was not vaccinated and had no medical conditions below, according to the health agency. But the defense of children’s health claimed to have obtained hospital records that contradicted the cause of death.
The organization also interviewed Dr. Ben Edwards, who treated the girl’s brothers and who is one of the two doctors of Texas – both alternative medicine practitioners – to which Mr. Kennedy spoke of the epidemic.
In response to the video, the Covenant Pediatric Hospital of Lubbock, in Texas, issued a declaration this week by stating that a “recent video circulating online contains misleading and inaccurate statements” and noting that the laws on confidentiality prevent the hospital from providing specifically related information to the case.