Posted on 09/03/2025 3:48:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The health secretary fired the original committee members in June, replacing them with some who have been critical of vaccines.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to nominate seven new advisers to a scientific committee that recommends which vaccines Americans should take and when, according to two former federal officials with knowledge of the matter.
The panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, wields enormous influence. Insurance companies and government programs like Medicaid are required to cover the vaccinations it recommends.
After Mr. Kennedy’s confirmation hearing, Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, said he had received assurances that Mr. Kennedy would “maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.”
In June, Mr. Kennedy fired all 17 members of the panel, asserting without evidence that the committee members were “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest,” even though they had been carefully vetted for such conflicts.
Two days later, he appointed eight doctors and researchers, half of whom had expressed skepticism of vaccines at some point. (One later stepped down because of financial conflicts of interest.)
Mr. Kennedy has demolished the status quo at the C.D.C., which he once called “a cesspool of corruption.” He fired the agency’s director last week, prompted the resignation of several top officials and has gutted its budget and departments.
The seven new members of the panel include a cardiologist, a neurologist and a geneticist who have been critical of vaccines or mandates. The views of the new members on childhood vaccines generally are not yet known.
The news was first reported by Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in his Substack, “Inside Medicine.”
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No one from big pharma please.
Our government has become the proverbial “fox guarding the hen house.”
17 members? A broad cross-section is needed to represent taxpayers, patients, doctors, pharma, academia, etc.
A broad cross-section of political and philosopical approaches is needed... some empiricists, some not so empirical. Ideally one should have experience with double blind and similar studies...but with not ties to pharma.
HOORAY RFK Jr.
I urhe to et him and his other Frontlibe pals in on this panel. (another intellectual whiz from South Africa like Elon Musk)
imardmd1 (B.S, Eng., M.S., Ph.D.)
More than HALF of CDC staff leave to work for Big Pharma and ‘revolving door’ of workers at public agency makes it vulnerable to corruption, report warns
By CAITLIN TILLEY - HEALTH REPORTER
21:01 05 Sep 2023, updated 22:37 05 Sep 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12483423/amp/HALF-CDC-staff-lobby-Big-Pharma.html
“In June, Mr. Kennedy fired all 17 members of the panel, asserting without evidence that the committee members were “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest,” even though they had been carefully vetted for such conflicts.”
Yes, but who did the vetting?
The phrase “without evidence” pegs the writer as an editorialist, not a journalist.
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