Kennedy instructs the anti-vaccine group to remove fake CDC side
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary of the nation, on Saturday he instructed the managers of the non -profit organization that he founded to defeat a website that imitation the design of the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, but stated that vaccines cause autism.
The site was published on a website that was apparently registered with the non-profit organization, the anti-vaccine group of children’s health defense. Mr. Kennedy’s campaign came after the New York Times asked the page and was deleted after the news about social media.
The page was offline on Saturday evening.
“Secretary Kennedy has instructed the office of General Counsel to send a formal demand to children’s health defense in order to apply for the removal of their website,” said the Health and Human Services department in a statement.
“At HHS we strive to restore our agencies in their tradition of maintaining the golden standard sciences, evidence -based science,” the explanation said.
It was not clear why the anti-vaccine group published a page that imitates the CDCs. The organization did not respond to inquiries about comments, and Mr. Kennedy said that he broke the relationships when he started his presidential campaign in 2023.
The side of fake vaccine security was practically not to be distinguished from the one available on the CDC website. The layout, the writings and the logos were the same, possibly against the federal law.
While the CDC’s own website refutes a connection between vaccines and autism, the fraudster left the possibility that it exists. In the end, it contained links to video testimonials of parents who believe that their children were damaged by vaccines.
The publication of the page was first reported by E. Rosalie Li, the founder of the information Epidemiology Lab. The non -profit organization did not immediately answer a request for comments.
For years, Mr. Kennedy has claimed that there is a connection between vaccines and autism. He recorded this attitude during his hearing of his Senate confirmation, even though he exposed extensive research.
Under his leadership, the CDC recently announced plans to investigate the evidence again-a step that Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana and Chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said that money was waste waste.
On the Mock website online, the familiar blue banner of the CDC on the top and the blue and white logo of the agency together with the words “vaccine security” were presented. The heading was “vaccines and autism”.
The text determined research both for support and removal of a connection between vaccines and autism, the possibility – a long time ago, left the possibility that the shots were harmful.
It included a citation of a study by Brian S. Hooker, the Chief Scientific Officer of Child Health Defense, and other studies that criticize a vaccination.
“It is a mixture of things that rightly of experts and things that are wrong,” said Dr. Bruce Gellin, who led the HHS vaccine program in the administrations of Bush and Obama.
“The footnotes have the impression that it is a legitimate scientific work,” he added.
A number of testimonials at the end of the page contained videos with titles such as “Mother of 3: I will never vaccinate again” and “We have committed his life”.
This is in strong contrast to the official CDC website about autism and vaccines, which largely devotes itself to the dismissal of the idea of a connection and clearly states that “studies have shown that there is no connection”.
Lately, defense childhood health has been the measles outbreak in West texas.
The organization’s CHD.TV channel recorded an interview in front of the camera with the parents of a 6-year-old girl who was declared deadly by the State Ministry of Health. The first reported in the United States in a decade.
The child was not vaccinated and, according to the health authority, had no underlying diseases. But the children’s health defense claimed that they received hospital files that contradicted the cause of death.
The organization also interviewed Dr. Ben Edwards, who treated the girls’ siblings and one of two Texas – both alternative medical practitioners – with whom Mr. Kennedy spoke about the outbreak.
In response to the video, the Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, published an explanation this week that a “current online video circulating online edition contains misleading and inaccurate claims” and determines that the confidence laws prevent the hospital from delivering information that is specifically related to the case.
