RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism

The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.

With ardent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the country’s top health official, a federal webpage that previously laid out the ample evidence refuting the misinformation that vaccines cause autism was abruptly replaced Wednesday with an anti-vaccine screed that promotes the false link.

It’s a move that is sure to be celebrated by Kennedy’s fringe anti-vaccine followers, but will only sow more distrust, fear, and confusion among the public, further erode the country’s crumbling vaccination rates, and ultimately lead to more disease, suffering, and deaths from vaccine-preventable infections, particularly among children and the most vulnerable.

On the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website titled “Autism and Vaccines,” the previous top “key point” accurately reported that: “Studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD).”

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Schwarz-Gruppe: Das 11-Milliarden-Euro-KI-Projekt hat eine Chance

Die Schwarz-Gruppe (Lidl und Kaufland) schreibt Geschichte in Sachen souveräne KI und Cloud. Hat Lübbenau statt Redmond eine Chance und muss die Hardware aus den USA kommen? Ein Interview von Achim Sawall (Wirtschaft, Telekommunikation)

Die Schwarz-Gruppe (Lidl und Kaufland) schreibt Geschichte in Sachen souveräne KI und Cloud. Hat Lübbenau statt Redmond eine Chance und muss die Hardware aus den USA kommen? Ein Interview von Achim Sawall (Wirtschaft, Telekommunikation)

Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force’s new naming scheme foretells new era

Ars is first to reveal how the Space Force will name its weapon systems.

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes.

The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names like the B-17, A-26, B-29, and P-51—B for bomber, A for attack, and P for pursuit—during World War II. The military later changed the prefix for pursuit aircraft to F for fighter, leading to recognizable modern names like the F-15 and F-16.

Now, the newest branch of the military is carving its own path with a new document outlining how the Space Force, which can trace its lineage back to the Army Air Service, will name and designate its “weapon systems” on the ground and in orbit. Ars obtained a copy of the document, first written in 2023 and amended in 2024.

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