NASPA Joins Major Medical & Patient Advocacy Groups in Condemning CDC’s Autism–Vaccine Website Revisions
A coalition of leading organizations, including NASPA, representing autistic individuals, their families, medical professionals and public-health advocates are urging Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reverse changes to its autism-related website that revive the outdated and scientifically discredited claim that vaccines cause autism.
The groups argue that this messaging misuses taxpayer funds, distracts from evidence-based care and support for autistic people, undermines trust in one of medicine’s greatest public-health achievements and could harm children’s health and well-being. They affirm that after more than 25 years of global research, there is no link between routine childhood immunizations and autism and call on the CDC to recommit to evidence-based information that protects all Americans.