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douglas9

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Sun Mar 23, 2025, 05:48 AM Mar 23

CDC Clone Site, Rife with False Vaccine Claims, Hosted by Group Previously Led by HHS Secretary

Overview

A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. An NGO led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. The domain realcdc[.]org currently redirects to this CDC clone, which is staged on chdstaging[.]org.

The site uses CDC logos, real CDC social media links, and authoritative language, raising serious legal concerns under federal impersonation statutes. This deceptive staging site risks misleading parents, undermining public trust, and even violating federal law.

It also raises an inevitable critical question: Is the HHS Secretary aware of the site, and if so, how will he address this conflict of interest and take action on an apparent effort to impersonate a federal agency?



https://infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone-site-rife-with-false-vaccine

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CDC Clone Site, Rife with False Vaccine Claims, Hosted by Group Previously Led by HHS Secretary (Original Post) douglas9 Mar 23 OP
RFK Jr. had it taken down last night. TheRickles Mar 23 #1

TheRickles

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1. RFK Jr. had it taken down last night.
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 07:56 AM
Mar 23
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/22/nation/rfk-jr-fake-cdc-page/

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, on Saturday instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down a webpage that mimicked the design of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s site but laid out a case that vaccines cause autism.

The page had been published on a site apparently registered to the nonprofit, the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense. Kennedy’s action came after The New York Times inquired about the page and after news of it ricocheted across social media.

The page was taken offline Saturday evening."
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