The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now echoing rhetoric long associated with the anti-vaccine movement. As of this week, the CDC is no longer rebutting the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism.

Late Wednesday evening, the CDC dramatically changed its webpage on vaccines and autism. The page now claims that the federal government has not done enough to rule out a connection between vaccination and higher risk of autism—a stance long held by the current secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Understandably, many experts are aghast at the changes.

“This represents a new and devastating turn by the CDC, which has been effectively dismantled by the Secretary of HHS,” Helen Tager-Flusberg, a professor emerita at Boston University and executive commit

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