{"id":29646,"date":"2025-06-13T23:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29646"},"modified":"2025-06-13T23:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:25:46","slug":"kennedys-new-vaccine-advisers-helped-lawyers-raise-doubts-about-their-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29646","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy\u2019s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three of the health secretary\u2019s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.<\/p>\n

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Three of the new advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the government on immunization policy took part in lawsuits casting doubt on the safety or efficacy of vaccines, public records show.<\/p>\n

In dismissing all 17 members of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel<\/a> on Monday, Mr. Kennedy cited what he said was a history of conflicts of interest that he claimed made those experts a \u201crubber stamp\u201d on approving vaccines. But adding members who assisted in legal cases that were either against vaccine makers or that suggested widespread vaccine-caused harm raises questions about a different form of potential bias.<\/p>\n

While the legal involvement of the three new panelists does not appear to violate the rules, critics of Mr. Kennedy said it created the appearance of a conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s invoking the language of ethics and integrity to get rid of these experts and now is installing people who may have their own biases \u2014 that he apparently does not want to recognize,\u201d said Kathleen Clark, a law professor and ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s appointees, Vicky Pebsworth, is a nurse who serves on the board of a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about vaccine injuries. She certified to a court that, in her professional opinion, a survey of families of unvaccinated children supported the hypothesis that a rise in the number of recommended childhood vaccines explained an epidemic of chronic disease. Mr. Kennedy has espoused the same theory.<\/p>\n

Another, Dr. Robert Malone, a physician and biochemist whose criticism of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines catapulted him into the spotlight<\/a> during the pandemic, was a paid expert witness on behalf of company whistle-blowers who claimed that Merck, one of the nation\u2019s largest vaccine manufacturers, had covered up evidence casting doubt on the effectiveness of the mumps vaccine.<\/p>\n

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Three of the health secretary\u2019s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.Three of the new advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the government on immunization policy took part in lawsuits casting doubt on the safety or efficacy of vaccines, public records show.In dismissing all 17 members of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Monday, Mr. Kennedy cited what he said was a history of conflicts of interest that he claimed made those experts a \u201crubber stamp\u201d on approving vaccines. But adding members who assisted in legal cases that were either against vaccine makers or that suggested widespread vaccine-caused harm raises questions about a different form of potential bias.While the legal involvement of the three new panelists does not appear to violate the rules, critics of Mr. Kennedy said it created the appearance of a conflict.\u201cHe\u2019s invoking the language of ethics and integrity to get rid of these experts and now is installing people who may have their own biases \u2014 that he apparently does not want to recognize,\u201d said Kathleen Clark, a law professor and ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis.One of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s appointees, Vicky Pebsworth, is a nurse who serves on the board of a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about vaccine injuries. She certified to a court that, in her professional opinion, a survey of families of unvaccinated children supported the hypothesis that a rise in the number of recommended childhood vaccines explained an epidemic of chronic disease. Mr. Kennedy has espoused the same theory.Another, Dr. Robert Malone, a physician and biochemist whose criticism of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines catapulted him into the spotlight during the pandemic, was a paid expert witness on behalf of company whistle-blowers who claimed that Merck, one of the nation\u2019s largest vaccine manufacturers, had covered up evidence casting doubt on the effectiveness of the mumps vaccine.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29648,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29649,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646\/revisions\/29649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}