‘Terrible distortion of facts’: Anti-vax lawyer’s heb B testimony perfectly illustrates playbook to subvert science and litigate fear

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Attorney Aaron Siri, JD, who has worked as legal counsel for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., spent two hours talking about vaccine history, policy and health effects during the ACIP meeting on Dec. 5. 


ACIP member H. Cody Meissner, MD, acknowledged Siri, as an American, has First Amendment rights that everyone has.

“But what you have said is a terrible, terrible distortion of all the facts,” Meissner said.

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Disclosing potential conflicts of interest, Siri acknowledged he has sued HHS and related government agencies numerous times, and has 492 claims currently pending against HHS through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

His record as an attorney prompted a comment from Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-Louisiana), [who cast the deciding vote to confirm RFK, Jr], who posted on X ….

“Aaron Siri is a trial attorney who makes his living suing vaccine manufacturers,” Cassidy posted. “He is presenting as if an expert on childhood vaccines. The ACIP is totally discredited. They are not protecting children.”

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