CDC Quietly Removes ‘Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism’ from Autism and Vaccines Webpage
Between Aug. 26 and 27, 2020, quietly and without fanfare, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed the heading “Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism” from the top of their vaccine safety webpage.
The removal was brought to light by ICAN (Informed Consent Action Network), a vaccine safety advocacy organization, in a press release on Jan. 21 regarding the change. For years, ICAN has been pursuing legal action against the CDC, requesting the government organization remove this statement due to lack of evidence to prove the claim.
Although the CDC deleted the heading, a subheading with the same message remains on the webpage.
On the surface, quietly removing five words from a website seems like a minor event, but this action leaves unanswered questions. Could it be an unrelated routine webpage update by the CDC, or is the change a direct result of ICAN’s legal efforts?
To grasp the importance of the CDC removing “Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism” as the headline on their “Autism and Vaccines” page and decipher why it was removed, we need to review the events that led up to it.
‘No scientific studies to back up its long-declared assertion’
