When Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handpicked vaccine advisory committee convened for their first meeting this week, it represented the culmination of his decades-long crusade against vaccines—the systematic installation of personal ideology into federal health policy with potentially devastating consequences for public health.
For over sixty years, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices operated as one of America's most respected scientific bodies. Staffed by pediatricians, epidemiologists, and immunologists who disclosed conflicts of interest and followed stringent ethical guidelines, their evidence-based recommendations helped save an estimated 154 million lives globally over the past half-century. Kennedy dismissed these accomplished scientists as "plagued with conflicts of interest," then replaced them with activists who share his anti-vaccine ideology. This isn't about conflicts of interest—it's about Kennedy's conflict with scientific reality.
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