Last week, former officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned members of Congress that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , the Secretary of Health and Human Services, was endangering the nation’s welfare by dismissing evidence and expertise in favor of his own vaccine skepticism. Kennedy “censored C.D.C. science, politicized its processes, and stripped leaders of independence,” Debra Houry, the agency’s former chief medical officer, said in a hearing this past Wednesday. The following day, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ( ACIP )—the scientific panel that influences U.S. vaccine policy more than any other body—began a chaotic and contentious two-day meeting about updating the country’s vaccination recommendations. The committee’s members had been handpick

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