RFK Jr. ousts all members of CDC vaccine advisory panel

[Right_in_Virginia]

RFK Jr. ousts all members of CDC vaccine advisory panel
MSN, Jun 9, 2025, Washington Post

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he was removing the entire membership of the influential vaccine advisory panel that makes immunization recommendations for the United States, an unprecedented move by Kennedy and escalation of his overhaul of federal vaccination policy.

In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said he decided to retire the 17 independent vaccine experts from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices because the panel has been “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest” and has become a “rubber stamp” for vaccines. Doctors and pharmacists look to the committee’s recommendations to decide which shots to offer.

Kennedy has long criticized the panel, which makes vaccine recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When the recommendations are approved by the director, they become official public health guidance and are required to be covered by insurance plans at no cost to consumers.

The ouster of ACIP members marks the latest move by Kennedy that raised alarms among proponents of vaccines. He also forced out the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine scientist, hired a vaccine skeptic to scrutinize CDC vaccine safety data and has offered mixed messages about measles vaccines amid one of the worst outbreaks in decades. In May, Kennedy bypassed ACIP to say federal health officials would no longer recommend coronavirus vaccines for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.


More:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/rfk-jr-ousts-all-members-of-cdc-vaccine-advisory-panel/ar-AA1GogOk?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[Smokin Joe]

Well, I see the term "__________(fill in the blank) skeptic" as a media borne pejorative.

Good science can withstand scrutiny, and should be reviewed by the Doubting Thomases among the field.

Prove it is good, prove it to them, and it likely is.

Every member of a jury should require the same standard, with the assumption that the prosecution is wrong, before voting 'guilty'.

[jmyrlefuller]

This is what you get for rubber stamping a hastily produced and barely "tested" vaccine with no dissent.

It's about time.

[mountaineer]

Apparently, he has full authority to do this, despite the pearl clutching of the media.