Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Minister of Health of the Nation, ordered the leaders of the non -profit organization he founded on Saturday to abolish a website that talked about the design of the centers for the control of diseases and the area of prevention, but raised a case.
The page had been posted on a website apparently registered with the non-profit organization, the defense of health for the health of the Anti-Vaccine team. Mr Kennedy’s action came after The New York Times on the page and after his news on social media.
The page was taken offline on Saturday night.
“The Kennedy Secretary has ordered the Office of the General Adviser to send a formal requirement to the defense of children’s health by demanding that their website be removed,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
“At HHS we are committed to restoring our organizations in their tradition of supporting gold -based science, which is based on evidence,” the statement said.
It was not clear why the Anti-Employment Team could have posted a page that mimics the CDCs. The organization did not respond to comments for comments and Mr Kennedy said he interrupted his links when he began his presidential campaign in 2023.
The fake vaccine security page was practically indiscriminate from the one available on the CDC website. The provision, fonts and logos were the same, perhaps in violation of the federal copyright law.
While the CDC website refutes a connection between vaccines and autism, the fraudster let the possibility of opening the chance. At the bottom, they included links to video testimonies by parents who believe that their children are harmed by vaccines.
The page was published for the first time by E. Rosalie Li, founder of the Information Epidemiology Laboratory. The non -profit organization did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Mr Kennedy has for years argued that there is a connection between vaccines and autism. He held this attitude during the Senate’s confirmation hearing, despite the extensive research that brought out the theory.
Under its guidance, the CDC has recently announced plans to review the evidence-a move by Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican of Louisiana and the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said it was a waste of money.
The fake online website characterized the well -known Banner of CDC all over the top and the blue and white logo of the organization along with the words “vaccine security”. The title reads “vaccines and autism”.
The text that set research both supporting and cutting off a relationship between vaccines and autism, but allowed it to open the possibility – for a long time with scientists – that the shots were harmful.
It included a reference to a study by Brian S. Hooker, who is the lead scientific officer in defense of children’s health and other studies criticizing vaccination.
“It’s a mix of things that are legally evaluated and things that are false,” said Dr. Bruce Gellin, who directed the HHS vaccine program in Bush and Obama administrations.
“The footnotes give you the impression that it is a legal scientific work,” he added.
A series of testimonies at the bottom of the page appeared videos of titles such as “Mother 3: I will not vaccinate again” and “we signed his life away”.
This is in strong contrast to the official CDC website for autism and vaccines, which are largely dedicated to eliminating the idea of a connection and clearly state that “studies have shown that there is no link”.
Recently, the defense of children’s health has taken place in the measles outburst in West Texas.
The Organization’s CHD.TV channel published an interview on camera with the parents of a 6 -year -old girl who was declared a dead from the state health department, the first death of measles in the United States in a decade.
The child was not vaccinated and had no underlying medical conditions, according to the Health Service. However, the defense of children’s health claimed that he had received hospital records that contradict the cause of death.
The organization also interviewed Dr. Ben Edwards, who faced the girl’s brothers and who is one of the two Texas doctors – both alternative doctors – to whom Mr. Kennedy talked about the outburst.
Responding to the video, Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, published a statement this week saying that “a recent video circulating online contains misleading and inaccurate claims” and noting that confidentiality laws prevent the hospital from providing information specifically.
