RFK Jr. forced to withdraw charter that opened CDC panel to anti-vaccine quacks
A revised charter document for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influential vaccine advisory committee has been withdrawn by the Health Department over an administrative error, according to a notice published in the Federal Register Tuesday.
The charter's revisions under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have allowed Kennedy to appoint dubiously qualified anti-vaccine allies to advise the CDC. It also would have directed the CDC panel to focus on alleged vaccine injuries and risks and welcomed fringe groups and anti-vaccine organizations to participate in developing federal vaccine policy.
Kennedy's move to reshape the CDC panel-the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP-came amid Kennedy's many other attempts to undermine it, as well as a court order to undo that meddling.