Céline Gounder, Infectious Disease expert, KFF, posted a list of vaccine experts who have strongly condemned the dangerous move by RFK Jr. linking autism to vaccines on the CDC website.
The list includes -
Céline Gounder, Infectious Disease expert, KFF
Dr. Atul Gawande, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Mark Rosenberg, former Center Director at CDC and former assistant surgeon general
Syra Madad, Epidemiologist, Harvard Belfer Center
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-website-change-vaccines-autism/
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Maj Gen (ret) Paul Friedrichs, MD, former National Security Council director for global health and biodefense
Dr. Daniel Jernigan, former director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jesse Goodman, former FDA Chief Scientist
Megan L. Ranney, MD MPH, Dean, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, infectious diseases physician in Texas, former WHO medical officer
Dr. Mandy Cohen, former CDC Director
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/health/cdc-website-autism-vaccines
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Dr. Peter Hotez, pediatric infectious disease specialist and vaccine scientist, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Debra Houry, former CDC Chief Science and Medical Officer
Dr. Fiona Havers, infectious diseases physician and vaccine expert; former CDC official and vaccine expert
Charles Holmes, MD, Distinguished Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and Prof of Medicine, Georgetown Univ
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former NIAID Director
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Senator Bill Cassidy, MD
Dr. Tom Frieden, Global health leader and epidemiologist. Former CDC director
Jake Scott, MD, Infectious diseases doctor, Stanford
Dr. Angela Rasmussen, virologist, Univ of Saskatchewan
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Maryland Sec of Health
Ronald G. Nahass, MD, President, IDSA
Anna K. Person, MD, Chair, HIV Medicine Association
Carol M. McLay, DrPH, MPH, RN, President, APIC
David J. Weber, MD, MPH, President, SHEA
Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, President, SIDP
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Andrea Love, PhD, Biomedical Scientist, Founder of ImmunoLogic.
https://news.immunologic.org/p/a-recent-study-did-not-show-vaccines
https://substack.com/@immunologic/note/c-179393411
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Autism Science Foundation:
'We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage “Autism and Vaccines” has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism. The CDC’s previous science and evidence-based website has been replaced with misinformation and now actually contradicts the best available science.”'
https://autismsciencefoundation.org/press_releases/cdc-webpage/
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From the NYT:
RFK Jr. said in an interview that he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism.
All evidence and vaccine experts be damned.
He said he is not saying vaccines cause autism; he is simply saying there is no proof that they don’t.
Dr. Arthur Caplan, who directs the medical ethics division at NYU, once wryly noted, “You can’t prove that Coca-Cola doesn’t cause autism either.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccines-autism-website.html
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Three former high-ranking officials at the CDC write:
"This is not science. It is propaganda.
When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. The secretary’s apparent aim is not to clarify evidence but to manufacture doubt and hand opportunists a govt-branded document they can use to prey on anxious parents.
Career staff have told us that no scientific offices — or their leadership — were asked to review or clear the new content."
https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/cdc-officials-rfk-jr-vaccine-autism-letter-rcna245128
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