Yesterday, the CDC, under the guidance of HHS Secretary “Kiddie Killer” Kennedy, updated its “Autism and Vaccines” page:

Like science denialists of all stripes, you’ll notice that they flipped the ‘null hypothesis.’ Rather than assuming vaccines do not cause autism, and then requiring evidence to demonstrate that they do, the corrupted CDC under Kennedy, starts with the false premise that vaccines do cause autism. Not only does this fly in the face of existing evidence, but, just by random chance leading to a false association, we would expect the occasional small-sample size study to find a spurious link, meaning that it will impossible to “rule out the possibility that vaccines cause autism.” This isn’t ‘gold standard science’, it’s a rigged game.

You also might notice that there’s no mention on the page of the massive benefits of vaccination in preventing childhood mortality and disability.

Naturally, this was done without notifying the relevant, in terms of actual expertise, CDC personnel. The chef’s kiss in this microbiological nightmare is the following disclaimer at the bottom of the page:

* The header “Vaccines do not cause autism” has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

I would like to wish every Republican senator who voted to confirm Kennedy–all but two of them–a hearty fuck you (and no Democrats voted for him).

Also, everyone who voted for Trump or sat out the election because they’re too fucking saintly to live in the real world owns this crap.

Impeach Kennedy. Impeach him now.