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'RESTORING PUBLIC TRUST': RFK Takes an Axe to Vax Committee, Removes 17 CDC Members

posted by Hannity Staff - 6.10.25

This week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the expert panel that makes vaccine policy recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying they’d be replaced with “new members currently under consideration.”

Kennedy shared the news on X, saying the following:

Today, we are taking a bold step in restoring public trust by totally reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.

The entire world once looked to American health regulators for guidance, inspiration, scientific impartiality, and unimpeachable integrity. Public trust has eroded. Only through radical transparency and gold standard science, will we earn it back.

Kennedy also penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.

“Vaccines have become a divisive issue in American politics, but there is one thing all parties can agree on: The U.S. faces a crisis of public trust. Whether toward health agencies, pharmaceutical companies or vaccines themselves, public confidence is waning,” Kennedy wrote.

“Some would try to explain this away by blaming misinformation or antiscience attitudes. To do so, however, ignores a history of conflicts of interest, persecution of dissidents, a lack of curiosity, and skewed science that has plagued the vaccine regulatory apparatus for decades,” he continued.

“In the 1960s, the world sought guidance from America’s health regulators, who had a reputation for integrity, scientific impartiality and zealous defense of patient welfare. Public trust has since collapsed, but we will earn it back.”

Read the full op-ed over at The Wall Street Journal: