By Maryanne Demasi PhD
The news keeps coming—and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wasting no time. He promised a shake-up of America’s public health institutions, and now he’s delivering.
All 17 members of the CDC’s influential vaccine advisory panel—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—have been fired.
Each received a formal termination notice from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), signed by Kennedy himself.
He announced that removing the current members was necessary to allow the administration to appoint new individuals aligned with its policies—something that wouldn’t have been possible until 2028 without this step.
ACIP is made up of external experts, tasked with providing independent advice to the CDC on vaccine use.
In theory, the panel is meant to offer objective, science-based advice. But in practice, says Kennedy, it has become “little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine.”
He noted that the panel has “never recommended against a vaccine—even those later withdrawn for safety reasons.”
In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, Kennedy argued that ACIP has been compromised by entrenched conflicts of interest.
“Most of ACIP’s members have received substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies, including those marketing vaccines,” he wrote.
He cited a 2000 congressional investigation and a 2009 HHS inspector-general report, both of which found that conflict-of-interest rules were routinely violated and that waivers were issued en masse. “The CDC took no significant action to remedy the omissions.”
Kennedy said the issue is that members are “immersed in a system of industry-aligned incentives and paradigms that enforce a narrow pro-industry orthodoxy.”
The result, he argued, is a public health apparatus that suppresses dissent, lacks transparency, and routinely overlooks inconvenient evidence. “The groups that inform ACIP meet behind closed doors, violating the legal and ethical principle of transparency crucial to maintaining public trust.”
Among those terminated were high-profile figures such as Dr Paul Offit, who co-developed a rotavirus vaccine and once famously claimed that infants could safely receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once.
Also removed was Dr Eric Rubin, the editor in chief at New England Journal of Medicine. During the pandemic, he defended recommending Covid-19 vaccines for children despite limited safety data.
He stated, “We’re never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it. And that’s just the way it goes. That’s how we found about rare complications of other vaccines like rotavirus vaccine.”
Criticism of the ACIP has been widespread.
Dr Marty Makary, now FDA commissioner, previously called the panel a “kangaroo court” for endorsing Covid-19 boosters in children based on flimsy antibody data.
He described a process driven more by marketing messages than critical medical judgement, where dissenting views were excluded and long-term risks downplayed.
Kennedy’s op-ed echoed that frustration.
He pushed back against the idea that vaccine hesitancy is purely a result of misinformation or antiscience sentiment, arguing that such claims overlook a deeper, systemic problem.
As he put it, the real issue is “a history of conflicts of interest, persecution of dissidents, a lack of curiosity, and skewed science that has plagued the vaccine regulatory apparatus for decades.”
For Kennedy, rebuilding trust requires more than a change in tone—it requires dismantling the system that enabled such failures.
He pledged that the new ACIP members “won’t directly work for the vaccine industry. They will exercise independent judgment, refuse to serve as a rubber stamp, and foster a culture of critical inquiry—unafraid to ask hard questions.”
The question now is: who will those new members be?
Will Kennedy elevate long-sidelined scientists who sounded the alarm over gaps in vaccine safety data? Or will he turn to lower-profile academics who share his reform agenda but have kept their powder dry?
“A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science,” Kennedy wrote. “Public trust has…collapsed, but we will earn it back.”
For the first time in a long time, the US government is not just confronting it critics—it’s removing the gatekeepers.
“The question now is: who will those new members be?
Will Kennedy elevate long-sidelined scientists who sounded the alarm over gaps in vaccine safety data? Or will he turn to lower-profile academics who share his reform agenda but have kept their powder dry?”
Errrr, not really…
Looks like more hopium typically propagated by Trump and his administration.
They’re all pro mRNA vax and WORSE:
You all need to Stop listening to these shills – don’t believe anything they say.
https://healthimpactnews.com/2025/secretary-kennedy-lets-make-vaccines-great-again-6-new-covid-vaccines-approved-by-fda-so-far-in-2025/
I’m told that the Hansard contains information about Mainstream Media companies and associated minor companies, big and small, receiving millions and millions of $$$$ in “assistance” from the Morrison grubbernment during c-vid.
Which of course prompts the cynical possibility of scurrilous cash for comment accusations by those who have no sense of scruple, decency and respect for our faithful servants of truth, justice and Australian shearing standards.
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US DoD admits vaccination mandate “was unlawful as implemented…”
Elizabeth Hart
May 12, 2025
Recently the US Department of Defense has issued a memorandum dated May 7 2025, which states:
On January 27, 2025, the President issued reference (a), concerning the Department of Defense’s since-rescinded coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination mandate, which was unlawful as implemented, and “an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden” on Service members.
Continue please >
https://elizabethhart.substack.com/p/us-dod-admits-vaccination-mandate
Channel 9 they were allegedly up to their back teeth in massive conflicts of interest (as they all are).
Also can anyone else remember during the Covid Scam / Hoax / Fraud that on channel 9 the emblem in the right hand side of the TV I am sure I recall seeing them flash up the words ‘get vaccinated’ with their emblem, I remember being absolutely horrified at that and remember every time I saw it I said ‘get f***ed’.
Please see the work hereunder, from 2020 of the wonderful Researcher Elizabeth Hart who has been relentless in her incredible work…(find her on substack).
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Vaccination and the Media – Conflicts of Interest in Australia
Alarming Conflicts of Interest
There’s a murky story to uncover about relationships between the media and vaccine industry…and connections with government. We the people have to work on exposing this scandal ourselves…
Meanwhile, CSL/Seqirus receives product promotion and endorsement courtesy of The Sydney Morning Herald, i.e.
‘There will be enough’: CSL to hit record flu vaccine production. (Emma Koehn, 19 April 2020.)
Did CSL/Seqirus pay for this flu vaccine product promotion in The Sydney Morning Herald?
Mr Costello, the Future Fund has invested over a billion dollars in companies which inter alia manufacture vaccine products – it appears you have a conflict of interest in also being Chairman of a corporate media group which discredits and marginalises citizens who question taxpayer-funded vaccination policy, reflexively labelling them as ‘anti-vaccination’. CSL shares valued at $674 million, plus Pfizer shares worth more than $265 million, $251 million of Johnson and Johnson shares, and over $134 million of shares in Merck were equity holdings of the Future Fund Board of Guardians as of 30 June 2019.
$310 million worth of Facebook shares are also listed in the Future Fund portfolio, and it is notable that Facebook is now hindering citizens’ free discussion of matters relevant to vaccine products and policy with its self-appointed ‘fact-checkers’.
Mr Costello, many groups around the world are now working on fast-tracking coronavirus vaccine products, being led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and with taxpayer-funding from many governments, including at least $352 million from the Australian government. Please note more discerning citizens will be demanding transparency and accountability for the lucrative vaccine products being pressed upon the global community. Corporate media groups such as Nine Entertainment Co will also be held accountable for biased reporting which provides unquestioning promotion for vaccine products.
Continue please >
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccination-and-the-media-conflicts-of-interest-in-australia/
NO MANDATES EVER SHOULD BE ENACTED BY ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME FOR ANYTHING.
Australia is stupid enough that our grubberment will find these moron,s and hire them for our incompetent beurocracy .
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST in Australian Vaccination Policies
(Heart Party previously The Informed Medical Options Party)
https://heartparty.com.au/Conflicts-of-Interest-in-Vaccination-Policies
Seems to me we could use INDEPENDENT CITIZENS bodies constitutionally mandated to oversee and monitor any deals done between our grubbernors and the money merchants.
The “public-private” partnerships game is out of hand. It’s a veritable cesspool of potential political and commercial corruption going unchecked!
Any politicians game enuff to start the ball rolling? Or is accountability to the public an extinct concept now?
Australian bureaucrats have given birth to an interim Australian CDC. (ACDC.) and yes the auto-correct’s favourite song is Highway to Hell by AC/DC.
The ACDC. was conceived by Albanese’s Commonwealth Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry chaired by public servant Ms Robyn Kruk AO.
Some professional background on the interim ACDC’s. head Mary Wood, an Australian National University arts-law graduate and Oxford Uni dropout:
https://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/features/in-conversation-with-mary-wood/
For transparency it would be nice to think, that all interim and future staff members of the ACDC. be pharmaceutical industry outsiders and immuned to big pharma’s offers.
To John Wilson
A few years ago the “informed medical options” Party put out 22 pages of research in relation to ‘conflicts of interest’. I kept a copy at the time.
For Australia there was/is an ‘Immunisation Coalition’ funded by vaccine manufacturers including Pfizer;
Chairman Dr Rodney Pearce,
CEO Kim Sampson (also Executive Directive of the Asia-Pacific Alliance for the control of Influenza APACI)
Dr Tony Bartone,
Board Director Prof Robert Booy (MSM TV vaccine promoter at the time of ‘covid’)
Prof Peter Richmond,
A/Prof Margie Danchin, Dr Omar Khorshid,
Prof Paul Van Buynder.
The Australian Medical Assoc (AMA) was also affiliated with the Immunisation Coalition.
Then there is ATAGI (Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation) with a role to provide advice to the Minister for Health.
Co-Chair Allen Cheng
Co-Chair A/Prof Christopher Blyth (Director of Alfred Health)
Prof Allen Cheng,
A/Prof Nigel Crawford (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute)
Prof Kristine Macartney, Prof Helen Marshall, Prof Peter McIntyre, Prof Jodie McVernon,
Prof Terry Nolan, Prof Peter Richmond,
Dr Tom Snelling (Head of Infectious disease), Dr Nigel Crawford (associated with Murdoch Research Institute), Dr Michelle Giles (Infectious disease physician)
For advice from AIVC (Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee) that included Prof Robert Booy (MSM mouthpiece) and Helen Marshall.
And CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) advisor to the PM Morrison for ‘covid’ – Jane Halton.
There are just too many other ‘interests’ to name them all however a common thread alleged was that either the individual or the advisory group received fund$ from vaccine manufacturers and/or grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Or they may have received funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for vaccine clinical trials.
Or they served on scientific advisory boards for Vaccine Companies.
Then there was alleged connections to CSL….
Either on CSL Board, or at least having CSL $hares.
In relation to the Australian Government National Immunisation Handbook, that is/was approved by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (INCIRS) with funding from the Government and from members who were associated with Industry $ponsored vaccine research.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (University of Melbourne) during the ‘covid’ era were also collaborating under a VIRGo (Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group)…. conducting Phase 2 trials of SARS-CoV2 vaccine candidates.
If Australia was to do a JFK Jnr sweep – they could start there.
RFK Jr standing and fighting against the disgraceful and lethal corruption and conflicts of interest that has hijacked so called ‘public health ‘ .
And the entire global vaccination policies are tpotally corrupted with systemic and extensive conflicts of interest.
See the truth about Dr Paul Offit here >
Paul Offit should step down Not RFK Jr.
Let’s get one thing straight: RFK Jr. isn’t a threat to America’s children.
He’s a threat to the cartel of captured agencies, conflicted scientists, and Big Pharma-funded propagandist sellouts.
https://thetruthaboutcancerofficial.substack.com/p/paul-offit-should-step-down-not-rfk
“Ai governance” replacement of the “fallible” humans.
(“The Holy Grail”)
“Rebuilding Trust: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024”
https://www.weforum.org/press/2024/01/wef24-rebuilding-trust-world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/
The title is all you really need to see, the rest of course will be doublespeak and sh-t with a candy-coating on it.
lol How is there a “conflict of interest” in a High Priest-Money Merchant cabal venture pilfering the faithful sheep?
There’s no conflict as long as the sheep get fleeced, unless of course there’s a tiff about who gets how much wool.
Who is on Australia’s “vaccine advisory panel”? A Summons requires the names of the Defendants.
He is never going to restore public confidence in the vaccine industry. That said. Great News. Fire them all and get Big Vaxx out of the CDC.
Australia. It can be done.
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