As the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) holds its final 2025 meeting (Dec. 4–5), medical societies, public health organizations, and patient advocates sounded alarms about the direction of the committee’s decisions. More than 12,000 people and organizations submitted written comments  ahead of the meeting but less than 4,000 were publicly published before the sessions began. Many comments raised concerns about topics on the agenda, how ACIP decisions shape vaccines...

Credible public health guidance considers transparent, reproducible, and rigorously peer-reviewed evidence. Decades of empirical data and high-quality studies have shown no connection between vaccines and autism diagnoses, reinforced again this summer by a 24-year analysis of 1.2 million children showing no association with 50 chronic conditions, including autism. But the long-debunked myth persists, and a new publication that used flawed methods to reach a misleading conclusion could impact...

On Nov. 19, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said  he instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to make a significant change to its website , falsely suggesting a connection between vaccines and autism. The current language now sows confusion despite a long list of studies involving millions of children – including one published this summer  – that have repeatedly shown there is no link between vaccines and autism. Publicly stating...