diff --git a/sklearn/__init__.py b/sklearn/__init__.py
index 036fb4d312279..416f311f7a0ef 100644
--- a/sklearn/__init__.py
+++ b/sklearn/__init__.py
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@
 from ._config import get_config, set_config, config_context
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
-logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+logger.addHandler(logging.NullHandler())
 
 
 # Make sure that DeprecationWarning within this package always gets printed