Tennessee’s newly elected Rep. Mark Green (R) has walked back comments he made to constituents on Tuesday at a town hall, where he said that he believes vaccines may lead to autism. The woman’s question pertained to possible cuts to Medicaid funding, but Green turned the discussion toward vaccines. Green accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of mismanaging data on vaccines and falsely claimed that a mercury-based preservative found in some vaccines was responsible for a rise in autism diagnoses. “Let me say this about autism,” Green said. “Recent comments I made at a town hall regarding vaccines have been misconstrued,” the representative-elect said.

Source: Huffington Post December 12, 2018 22:07 UTC