The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its vaccine page this week to say that “vaccines don’t cause autism” isn’t an evidence-based claim.

“The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,” the CDC vaccine safety page now reads.

The page was updated on Wednesday.

Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon said the website was changed in order “to reflect gold standard, evidence-based science,” according to Just the News.

“HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biological mechanisms and potential casual links,” the page also states.

It is another move by Health and Human Services to counter longtime scientific views about the safety of vaccines and pharmaceutical products in general.

“We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage ‘Autism and Vaccines’ has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism,” the Autism Science Foundation said in a statement Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in April the agency would be launching an investigation into autism and potential causes of the disorder.

Kennedy has been a vaccine skeptic for years and has linked some vaccines to autism.

“We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” Kennedy said during a televised White House Cabinet meeting earlier this year. “By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.”

In September during a news conference, President Donald Trump advised pregnant women not take Tylenol because it could be linked to a spike in autism.

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