GOP Senator Refuses To Face Reality About RFK Jr. After Being ‘Lied’ To
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Sen. Bill Cassidy avoided blaming RFK Jr. even after the health secretary called for the CDC's erroneous website change on vaccines and autism.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) appeared to avoid directly placing blame on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., even after CNN’s Jake Tapper mentioned that the known anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist may not have been forthright with him while trying to gain Cassidy’s support in taking the helm as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, the Louisiana senator, who chairs the Senate’s health committee and is also a physician, skirted around responding to Tapper, who flat-out said that RFK Jr. “lied” to him after ordering the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its website language on autism and vaccines.
The CDC’s “vaccine safety” page on its website was updated on Nov. 19 to claim that the statement “vaccines do not cause autism” is not evidence-based because it doesn’t rule out the possibility that infant vaccines are linked to the disorder.
After Tapper played a clip of Kennedy pledging to Cassidy during his confirmation process that he would not go against the CDC’s guidelines that vaccines do not cause autism, the CNN host bluntly told Cassidy that Kennedy “lied” to him.
Despite Kennedy’s adjustment to the site that defies long-held, widespread scientific consensus on vaccine safety, Cassidy called on Americans to get vaccinated regardless of the update to the CDC website.
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