The new changes appear to have been made to secure a crucial confirmation vote for Dr. Erica Schwartz, Trump’s [nominee to lead the CDC].

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, whose support is vital for moving health nominees through the Senate Health Committee, previously signaled that he needed assurances that the agency would uphold scientific integrity before advancing her nomination.

I don’t get it. They went from saying there is no causal relationship between vaccines and autism to saying that science doesn’t know. How does that help secure Cassidy’s vote?

Science doesn't "know" anything. It is not sentient, it is a tool.

Not even a tool. It's a methodology. For combining objective facts and using them to reach testable and repeatable conclusions.

The result of testing those conclusions and getting consistent results is what we come to accept as fact.

And to that end, science has proven, through repeatable tests with the same outcome every time, that vaccines don't have anything to do with autism.

Because we have plenty of historical figures who retroactively fit the diagnosis of autism long before we had vaccines...let alone the name "autism".

The only reason to think that, would be because kids who were born autistic and got vaccinated didn't die of whooping cough and actually see a doctor instead of living off-grid in a trailer park.

It does, they don't.

HHS giving off serious" Buy my supplements" vibes these days.

A good resource I found to illustrate how far away from reality these monsters are: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/immunizations/Pages/vaccine-studies-examine-the-evidence.aspx

I was there. The person pushing the update screamed in existential pain when he hit enter. Hardly quiet.

Is science in the room with us... right now?

Wankers.

Well, not that quietly.

After all it's all over the news and the socials.

Is this science in the room with rfk jr?

I mean, it's kinda true-ish? What if someone develops a vaccine in 200 years that actually causes autism because the world has realized that autism is a desirable trait because makes people better at what is needed in the future? We can't know if that vaccine will cause autism so we can't know if "vaccines" as EVERY VACCINE EVER CREATED will cause autism.

Checkmate, jabbed people and science "believers"!!

/s

I have a theory: people are living too long and not dying enough. That is making social programs too expensive for government. They need a way to have people dying off at younger ages and more quickly when disease presents as treatment is too expensive. The CDC is now in charge of lowering the average lifespan and having children go back to dying of many vaccine preventable diseases and more women dying in pregnancy & childbirth the n order to lower the cost of government commitments.

Science knows. They don't. Autism is also not a bad thing to be feared.

We don’t know if RFK pioneered a new form of herpes either. Scientists have not ruled it out.

Update to RFK Jr doesn't know shit because he's just a lawyer.

they also don't know if vaccines power santa clauses slay.