RFK Jr.’s vaccine-safety investigator has previously used government vaccine data to publish research with glaring flaws.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledges to reform the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Kennedy, a long-standing vaccine skeptic, criticizes the program for alleged corruption and inefficiency.

The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health successes of modern medicine. From smallpox to polio to measles, vaccines have saved millions of lives, protected entire generations from disability and death, and fortified our communities against the spread of infectious disease. But this foundation of disease prevention is now under attack.

The new members of US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's panel of vaccine advisers will review long-approved immunisation schedules for children and teens. The seven members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) met for the first time on Wednesday, weeks after Kennedy ousted all 17 of their predecessors.

June 25: Kennedy announces the U.S. will stop supporting the vaccines alliance Gavi. He accuses the group, along with the World Health Organization, of silencing “dissenting views” and “legitimate questions” about vaccine safety. Kennedy on revising CDC vaccine recommendations

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on “The Tucker Carlson Show” earlier this month, calling on Americans to “stop trusting experts” and announcing that an “AI revolution” is underway at the department.

Last month, the restructured ACIP voted 5-1 with one abstention to recommend that children, pregnant women, and all other adults use only single-dose seasonal influenza vaccines without thimerosal. That vote came after Kennedy removed all 17 members of ACIP earlier in the month and handpicked a group of replacements.