For many years, Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California, Davis, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been the “voice of reason for vaccine information.” But last week’s move, when the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to delay the timing of the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for all infants, was another reminder that this is no longer the case.

“We can’t trust them anymore since ACIP was gutted of vaccine experts and replaced with people with little or no knowledge or experience with vaccine science, immunology or public health,” Blumberg told Salon. “It’s a challenging time with prominent voices fabricating distortions about vaccines.”

Since 1991, ACIP has recommended a hepatitis B vacci

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