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Kennedy’s new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation
AP News ^ | Updated 9:21 AM CDT, June 12, 2025 | MIKE STOBBE

Posted on 06/14/2025 12:16:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

They include a scientist who researched mRNA vaccine technology and became a conservative darling for his criticisms of COVID-19 vaccines, a leading critic of pandemic-era lockdowns, and a professor of operations management.

Kennedy’s decision to “retire” the previous 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was widely decried by doctors’ groups and public health organizations, who feared the advisers would be replaced by a group aligned with Kennedy’s desire to reassess — and possibly end — longstanding vaccination recommendations.

On Tuesday, before he announced his picks, Kennedy said: “We’re going to bring great people onto the ACIP panel – not anti-vaxxers – bringing people on who are credentialed scientists.”

The new appointees include Vicky Pebsworth, a regional director for the National Association of Catholic Nurses. She has been listed as a board member and volunteer director for the National Vaccine Information Center, a group that is widely considered to be a leading source of vaccine misinformation.

Another is Dr. Robert Malone, the former mRNA researcher who emerged as a close adviser to Kennedy during the measles outbreak. Malone, who runs a wellness institute and a popular blog, rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as he relayed conspiracy theories around the outbreak and the vaccines that followed. He has appeared on podcasts and other conservative news outlets where he’s promoted unproven and alternative treatments for measles and COVID-19.

He has claimed that millions of Americans were hypnotized into taking the COVID-19 shots and has suggested that those vaccines cause a form of AIDS. He’s downplayed deaths related to one of the largest measles outbreaks in the U.S. in years.

Malone told The Associated Press he...

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1 posted on 06/14/2025 12:16:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AP has spread misinformation far more than these folks.


2 posted on 06/14/2025 12:19:24 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
he’s promoted unproven and alternative treatments for measles and COVID-19.

And he has been correct.

3 posted on 06/14/2025 12:20:35 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There are still a few who think the vax was keen and want to crack down on critics. Imagine how life would be if Kamala were President right now.


4 posted on 06/14/2025 12:21:10 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Malone has been described by detractors as a limited hangout.

Here he’s being slandered as an apostate.

This Guy has never gotten either type of bad vibe from him. In the meantime he’s always been able to explain his positions intelligently, with appropriate terminology, and with due humility based on the truth of his early miscalculation (consented to being personally vexxationationated).


5 posted on 06/14/2025 12:24:01 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly the headline you would expect from the muslim loving “Team Masters of Deception”.


6 posted on 06/14/2025 12:29:34 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe they were spreading the truth and the old bunch was doing the lying. Just sayin’.................


7 posted on 06/14/2025 12:32:15 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Misinformation as defined by the branch covidians whom they replaced.


8 posted on 06/14/2025 12:42:32 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Misinformation means “truth”.


9 posted on 06/14/2025 12:43:45 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Misinformation”? According to whom? Pfizer?


10 posted on 06/14/2025 12:45:19 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Misinformation”, lol. As spoken by Master Level liars.


11 posted on 06/14/2025 12:47:49 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I follow the Krugman Rule. Depending on who is saying it, believe the opposite.


12 posted on 06/14/2025 12:48:13 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: All

Takes one to know one…


13 posted on 06/14/2025 1:36:30 PM PDT by bennowens
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is the title libel? What exactly, does the AP allege is misinformation?


14 posted on 06/14/2025 2:10:29 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NO ONE SPREAD MORE DISINFORMATION THAN FAUCI-—GATES-—BIDEN, ETC


15 posted on 06/14/2025 2:16:03 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Eli Kopter

...and became a conservative darling... The usual bias from AP (America’s Pravda)


16 posted on 06/14/2025 2:38:08 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I can’t decide what to think of Mr. Kennedy.


17 posted on 06/14/2025 2:39:53 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Misinformation according to whom? Oh, that’s right, by people who get kickbacks from Big Pharma. The same people who gave us a “vaccine” that doesn’t fit the definition of a vaccine, doesn’t protect the patient, has, by their own admission, a 6 day efficacy rate if that much. Does nothing to stop deaths, hospitalizations or even the spread, but somehow, THEY get to label “misinformation”. No, AP. Your lies have gone on long enough.


18 posted on 06/14/2025 4:53:24 PM PDT by spacewarp (Want freedom? Reject Dems.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The AP, and the rest of the MSM are simply the craven mouthpieces for Eli Lily, Merck, etc.


19 posted on 06/14/2025 7:01:59 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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