This week, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shocked many when he announced, via an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, that he was firing all 17 members of the panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines. He named eight new members, four of whom are known to have expressed anti-vaccine sentiments.
Kennedy said his decision was meant to restore faith in vaccines, alleging that the committee has been “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine.”
