brain dead guy w/brain worm hard at work: "RFK Jr. removes all 17 members of CDC's vaccine advisory committee"

[orleans]

"The committee makes recommendations on the safety and efficacy of vaccines."

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-removing-17-members-cdcs-vaccine-advisory/story?id=122670046

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Kennedy had previously claimed he would not touch ACIP. In February Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, who said he had initially struggled with Kennedy's nomination for HHS secretary before voting to confirm him, said Kennedy had promised him no changes would be made to ACIP.

"He has also committed that he would work within the current vaccine approval and safety monitoring system and not establish parallel systems," Cassidy said at the time in a speech on the Senate floor. "If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes."

In a post on X after the changes were announced Monday, Cassidy said there is a fear the ACIP "will be filled up with people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion. I’ve just spoken with Secretary Kennedy, and I’ll continue to talk with him to ensure this is not the case."

Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the FDA's independent panel of vaccine advisers, told ABC News he thought the decision Monday was extremely dangerous.

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the post on x the article refers to (and many of the replies to cassidy are brutal) ( )

Link to tweet

ai overview:
"ACIP, or the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is a committee within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that provides advice and guidance on the use of vaccines and other immunizations in the U.S. civilian population. They develop recommendations on how to control vaccine-preventable diseases, including when and how vaccines should be administered.

[Klarkashton]

1. That guy's whole worn out 70s Naderesq beef

Is that there is a conspiracy between the corporations and the govt to poison and sicken the population. This has garnered him millions of dollars for his bullshit non profit through donations from weak minded believers and desperate parents with autistic children that he preys upon.
Now he is installing other like minded dimwits and frauds to push this into govt policy.

[elleng]

2. BRAIN DEAD for SURE!

[Edim]

3. ACIP Meeting Feb 2018 Hep B

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[hatrack]

4. "BIll Cassidy MD" - "Malignant Douchebag", I presume?

Lying redneck asshole.

[tanyev]

5. Oh, sure, you straighten him out, Bill.

If he even deigns to talk to you, he will tell what you want to hear and then go do whatever he wants later. That’s who you supported and voted for, Bill.

Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy voted Tuesday to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the nation's health agency despite the senator's reservations about Kennedy's past skepticism of vaccines.

Cassidy was considered the swing vote on the Finance Committee, which voted 14-13 Tuesday along party lines to advance RFK Jr.'s nomination to the full Senate.

Cassidy, a doctor, said during a committee hearing last week that he was struggling with President Donald Trump's nomination of Kennedy because of Kennedy's history of discrediting vaccines, though Cassidy has praised Kennedy's advocacy for promoting healthier diets.

He said Vice President JD Vance helped sway his vote in favor of Kennedy's nomination.

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2025/02/04/louisiana-senator-bill-cassidy-makes-swing-vote-on-rfk-jr-nomination-for-dhh/78208035007/

[calimary]

6. THIS.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Maddow Blog-RFK Jr. breaks promise to senators, guts CDC vaccine panel of independent experts

Before his confirmation, the HHS secretary said he’d leave the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices alone. Now he’s doing the opposite.

That an unqualified, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is behaving like an unqualified, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is painfully predictable.

But the fact remains that 52 Senate Republicans were given an opportunity to protect Americans from RFK Jr. — and they failed spectacularly.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-10T13:46:55.481Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/cdc-vaccine-panel-acip-rfk-jr-kennedy-rcna212007

In early February, when there was still some question as to whether or not the Senate would confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Sen. Bill Cassidy delivered a closely watched speech on the Senate floor. The Louisiana Republican, a physician by trade, not only endorsed the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist during his remarks, he offered assurances about the future.

“If confirmed, [Kennedy] will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — without changes,” Cassidy declared with confidence, pointing to assurances he’d received directly from RFK Jr.

Four months later, as NBC News reported, Cassidy has been proven wrong.

The 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory committee are being removed from their posts, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday afternoon.

.....Complicating matters is the degree to which these new developments add to a radical and dangerous pattern. Indeed, Kennedy’s announcement came just days after pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos resigned from her position as the co-leader of a CDC working group that advises outside experts on Covid vaccines.

In an email to colleagues, Panagiotakopoulos said, “My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role.”

Around the same time, The Associated Press reported that there’s some ambiguity as to who, exactly, is currently leading the CDC.

A New York Times report added:

Under Mr. Kennedy’s leadership, the F.D.A. has narrowed availability of Covid vaccines to adults 65 and older and Americans with certain underlying conditions. Mr. Kennedy later announced that the C.D.C. would no longer recommend the vaccines for healthy children or pregnant women, a decision that normally would have come from the agency’s A.C.I.P. ... He also oversees the National Institutes of Health, which halted funding for researchers who study vaccine hesitancy and canceled programs intended to discover new vaccines to prevent future pandemics. The department has also ended work crucial to developing an H.I.V. vaccine and a contract for a vaccine against bird flu.

As unsettling as the news has been, none of it is surprising. RFK Jr.’s anti-science reputation was well established long before Trump nominated him. That an unqualified, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is behaving like an unqualified, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is painfully predictable.

[orleans]

8. thanks for posting this nt