RFK Jr. names new slate of vaccine advisers after purging CDC panel

[highplainsdem]

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Source: NPR

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled eight people he has chosen to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel – just two days after taking the unprecedented step of removing all 17 sitting members.

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For example, Kulldorff, an epidemiologist and biostatistician, helped write the Great Barrington Declaration with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, then a Stanford University professor who is now director of the National Institutes of Health. That open letter questioned lockdowns and other public health measures early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Kulldorff declined to comment when reached by NPR.

Malone has gained a large following for undermining the COVID-19 vaccine. A scientist who worked on early research into the mRNA technology, he became critical of the shot and made baseless and disproven claims, including falsely stating that getting vaccinated puts people who have already had COVID-19 at higher risk.

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Another member, Vicky Pebsworth, has served on the board of the National Vaccine Information Center — a prominent advocacy group that warns against vaccine risks.

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Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5430870/cdc-vaccine-experts-rfk-jr

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More at the link.

As always, these incompetent ideologues are replacing competent people with incompetent ones.

[turbinetree]

1. Oh f**king yippie the a**hole is going to place a**holes on a board that thinks vaccines will place people at higher

risk of Covid 19 if they get the vaccine..............I have just one f**king question.............did these a**holes get MMR shots to attend school or how about the polio vaccine...............yes or f**king no...............lets see your vaccine records a**holes...........and I just bet that these a**holes never read up on what they did during the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic..........The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was controlled through a combination of public health measures, including social distancing, quarantines, and mask-wearing, since no effective vaccines or antivirals were available.

I just wonder if they are into bloodletting and dunking in a river to get rid of witches..............and demons..............and just think what they are going to do with the flu and covid vaccines coming this fall lets throw in polio and tuberculous for good measure also.........................of f**cking yippie................I can't wait.............

[purple_haze]

2. This clown is going to get a lot of people killed

[Canada Kid]

3. New picks at the CDC

Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Pluto, Mickey Mouse, Bozo the Clown, etc

[lark]

4. He's just another krasnov official charged with killing the working class and poor in America.

He's a murderer on purpose and for profit.

[Omaha Steve]

5. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

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