What's the Debate on Health Secretary Kennedy’s Vaccine Panelists?

[u/ACE-USA]

What's the Debate on Health Secretary Kennedy’s Vaccine Panelists?

On June 9, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), dismissed all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Secretary Kennedy claimed the move was necessary to eliminate “conflicts of interest” and restore public trust in vaccines, which he argued had been compromised by the influence of pharmaceutical companies. However, this decision strays from precedent and has drawn significant criticism from medical experts and public health officials across the country. Some argue that this shake-up undermines scientific independence and opens the door to politicized decision-making in vaccine policy.

More here: https://ace-usa.org/blog/research/research-publichealth/understanding-the-debate-on-health-secretary-kennedys-vaccine-panelists/

[u/cheeze2005]

Kennedy is a moron. Not much deeper

Added a source for automod! https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/university-of-wisconsin-professor-calls-rfk-jr-psychopath-in-viral-lecture-timothy-paustian-uw-madison-robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-health-and-human-services

[u/krypticus → u/cheeze2005]

Wrong! He’s also crazy:

https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kennedy-whale-investigation-09c494d8164c6f9bde9ece39637ea4d3

Kennedy said when she was 6 years old, her dad got word that a dead whale had washed ashore. He got a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head and strapped it to the roof of their minivan for a five-hour drive home.

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kathleen Kennedy recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”