Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight people to the influential federal panel that recommends vaccines to Americans Wednesday, elevating several vaccine critics days after he purged the groupโs entire membership.
His picks for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices include a well-known pediatric infectious diseases expert and at least two people who have criticized the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. Some of the more notable selections include Martin Kulldorff, the co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for herd immunity through mass covid infection in 2020, and Vicky Pebsworth, who has been listed on the board of the nationโs oldest anti-vaccine group.
โAll of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense,โ Kennedy said [on] Wednesday โฆ . โThey have each committed to demanding definitive safety and efficacy data before making any new vaccine recommendations.โ
The other new members are: Joseph R. Hibbeln, a psychiatrist; Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management; Robert W. Malone, a biochemist; Cody Meissner, a pediatrician; James Pagano, an emergency medicine physician; Michael Ross, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
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โHe is appointing a group of covid contrarians,โ said Richard Pan, a pediatrician and former California state lawmaker who often sparred with anti-vaccine activists. โThey have and will undermine trust in vaccination.โ
