Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine recommendations. Kennedy announced the sweeping change on Monday, saying he plans to completely rebuild the committee. “A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science,” Kennedy wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. He claimed the committee was “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest” and had become “little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine.” The fired advisory panel plays a … Continue reading Health Secretary RFK Jr. Fires All 17 CDC Vaccine Advisors, Citing “Conflicts of Interest”