Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the country secretary of the country, informed the leaders of the non -profit organization on Saturday that he founded to eliminate a web page which imitated the design of the site of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but presented a case where vaccines cause autism.
The page had been published on a site apparently registered with the non-profit association, the defense of the health of the children of the anti-vaccin group. The action of Mr. Kennedy occurred after the New York Times inquired on the page and after the news of them ricocheted on social networks.
The page was taken offline on Saturday evening.
“Secretary Kennedy has asked the Advocate General’s office to send an official request to the defense of children’s health asking for the abolition of their website,” the Ministry of Health and Social Services said in a statement.
“At HHS, we are committed to restoring our agencies to their tradition of maintaining science based on golden standard,” said the press release.
It was not clear why the anti-vaccine group could have published a page imitating CDC. The organization did not respond to requests for comments, and Mr. Kennedy said he had broken the ties with him when he started his presidential campaign in 2023.
The false vaccine safety page was practically indistinguishable from that available on the CDC website. The provision, the policies 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 the opening of the possibility that we exist. Below, he included links to video testimonies from parents who believe that their children were injured by vaccines.
The publication of the page was the first Reported on substack by E. Rosalie Lifounder of the information epidemiology laboratory. The non -profit organization did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Mr. Kennedy has maintained for years that there is a link between vaccines and autism. He held this position during his confirmation audiences of the Senate, despite in -depth research demystifying theory.
Under his direction, the CDC recently announced Plans to re -examine evidence – a decision that Senator Bill Cassidy, republican of Louisiana and president of the Senate health committee, was a waste of money.
The online simulated web page presented the familiar blue banner of the CDC at the top, and the agency’s blue and white logo as well as the words “vaccine safety”. The title said “vaccines and autism”.
The text presented research both supporting and demystifying a link between vaccines and autism, but left the possibility – long ago refuted by scientists – that the shots were harmful.
He included a quotation to a study by Brian S. Hooker, who is the scientific director of the defense of children’s health, and other criticized studies of vaccination.
“It is a mixture of things that are legitimately evaluated by peers and things that are false,” said Dr. Bruce Gellin, who directed the HHS vaccination program in Bush and Obama administrations.
“The footnotes give you the impression that it is a legitimate scientific work,” he added.
A series of testimonies at the bottom of the page included videos with titles like “3 -year -old mother: I will never vaccase” and “we have signed her life”.
This contrasts strongly with the CDC manager Website on autism and vaccineswhich is widely devoted to demystifying the idea of a connection and clearly declares that “studies have shown that there is no link”.
Recently, the defense of children’s health has taken a position on the epidemic of measles in western Texas.
The CHD.TV channel of the organization has published an interview with the camera with the parents of a 6-year-old girl who was declared dead of measles by the Department of State Health, the first death of measles reported in the United States in a decade.
The child was not vaccinated and had no underlying medical conditions, According to the health agency. But the defense of children’s health said that it had obtained hospital files which contradicts the cause of death.
The organization also interviewed Dr. Ben Edwards, who treated the brothers and sisters of the girl and who is one of the two doctors of Texas – two alternative medicine practitioners – to whom Mr. Kennedy spoke of the epidemic.
In response to the video, Covenant Children’s Hospital of Lubbock, Texas, published this week a declaration saying that a “recent online circulating video contains deceptive and inaccurate allegations”, and noting that confidentiality laws prevent the hospital from providing information specifically linked to the case.