Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the Center for Disease Control’s expert advisory panel on vaccines. This clears the way for him to appoint people who share his wacko views about vaccines. When asked why he fired them, he lied and said they had conflicts of interest. This was not true.
Apoorva Mandavilli of The New York Times reported:
The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Monday retired all 17 members of an advisory committee on immunization to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arguing that the move would restore the public’s trust in vaccines.
He made the announcement on Monday in an opinion column for The Wall Street Journal.
The C.D.C.’s vaccine advisers wield enormous influence. They carefully review data on vaccines, debate the evidence and vote on who should get the shots and when. Insurance companies are required to cover the vaccines recommended by the panel.
This is the latest in a series of moves Mr. Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, has made to drastically reshape policy on immunizations. A vaccine panel more closely aligned with Mr. Kennedy’s views has the potential to significantly alter the immunizations recommended to Americans, including childhood vaccinations.
Mr. Kennedy said the panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, “has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest….”
In fact, ACIP members are carefully screened for major conflicts of interest, and they cannot hold stocks or serve on advisory boards or speaker bureaus affiliated with vaccine manufacturers.
On the rare occasion that members have indirect conflicts of interest — for example, if an institution at which they work receives money from a drug manufacturer — they disclose the conflict and recuse themselves from related votes.
Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and former member of the panel, expressed concern that Kennedy wants to replace members of the panel with people who share his antagonism towards vaccines.
How many Americans will die because of this extremist who has strong opinions but limited knowledge of science or medicine?
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I hope they all sue for wrongful termination.
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The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is not fit to manage a bowel movement. But what else would we expect from the worst president in US history, the worst of the worst appoints the worst possible choice to lead the various agencies and departments. It’s like sawing off the wings of an airplane while in flight. It’s worse than kakistocracy, it’s self-destruction on an epic scale.
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I have maintained for some years, now even prior to Covid ,that not enough research was being done into a more dangerous malady.
Terminal Stupidity.
As you can see from the recent past sufferers and carriers of this malady are now in positions which the affliction makes them unable to carry out their duties in a mature, reasonable and focused way
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