RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Is Turning Misinformation Into Policy
The group cast aside evidence-based science in favor of anti-vaccine propaganda and dangerous falsehoods that will hurt Americans.
Leading American health care down the wrong path.
Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North AmericaHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s dismantling of Americans’ trust in — and ultimately, access to — vaccines isn’t happening with one sweeping policy that grabs the public’s attention. It’s unfolding quickly and quietly, in bland conference rooms where hand-picked appointees make decisions that will have far-reaching consequences for our health.
Inside one of those nondescript rooms last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an independent panel that makes vaccine recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offered a glimpse of what’s to come. The group, few of whom have any expertise in vaccines, infectious diseases or epidemiology, at times cast aside evidence-based science and sowed doubt in some of our most valuable public health tools.