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RFK Jr ousts vaccine body amid conflict
Bangkok Post
|June 11, 2025
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Monday announced he was dismissing all current members of a key federal vaccine advisory panel, accusing them of conflicts of interest — his latest salvo against the nation’s immunisation policies.
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The removal of all 17 experts of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was revealed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed and an official press release.
Mr Kennedy, who has spent two decades promoting vaccine misinformation, cast the move as essential to restoring public trust, claiming the committee had been compromised by financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.
This story is from the June 11, 2025 edition of Bangkok Post.
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