Recently removed members of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory panel warn that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s move to replace them shows he is “abandoning” rigorous scientific review and open deliberation.

Kennedy fired all 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in early June, accusing members of having conflicts of interest.

He said the move was necessary to restore faith in vaccines and then appointed eight new hand-picked members to the panel, many of whom have expressed skepticism about vaccines.

Former members of the panel published a piece in The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the oldest peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, arguing that Kennedy’s decision to

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