RFK Jr. fires all 17 CDC vaccine board advisors
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Based on a completely made up statistic about supposed conflicts of interest, and his usual gobbledygook:
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 public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our health agencies,” he said. “This will ensure the American people receive the safest vaccines possible.”
He has previously claimed that 97 percent of ACIP members had financial conflicts of interest. But the statistic came from a 2009 report, and a review found that 97 percent of the disclosure forms had errors, such as missing dates or information in the wrong section, not significant financial conflicts.
“I think R.F.K. Jr is a conspiracy theorist, and that’s what this document is about,” said Dr. Paul Offit, who serves as an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.
“It’s about the undue influence from Big Pharma,” Dr. Offit said. “This is a message that he has been putting out there for the last 20 years.”
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.
Trying to pick the worst member of Trump’s cabinet is a challenging exercise, but based on the combination of total lack of qualifications and potential for damage (Pete Hegseth is nominally at the head of a very powerful entrenched bureaucracy) I’m going to go with America’s second-most prominent failson.