Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), cleared the deck last month of Big Pharma’s control over vaccine policy. RFK Jr. fired everyone on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which has never recommended against any vaccine, including those that have been later withdrawn as “unsafe.” There has been a chorus of complaints about RFK Jr.’s mass firing from those who feed at the trough of Big Pharma, but as an advisory committee, ACIP should be a diverse group that includes people who are skeptical about vaccine mandates.
However, many Americans have no idea what ACIP even is, nor do they understand that ACIP’s vaccine recommendations automatically become vaccine requirements for children to attend public schools. Private schools also require the same laundry list of ACIP-recommended vaccines, and Illinois this year considered legislation to require homeschool children to receive all these vaccines too. Big Pharma’s lobbyists have cleverly obtained legal requirements in every state that automatically impose on children whatever ACIP approves. So, although it appears that ACIP is merely making recommendations, in fact its recommendations become requirements for children unable to refuse the injections. It used to be that nearly every state had a religious exemption to vaccination, but lobbyists for big pharmaceutical companies have diligently worked to remove exemptions.
“A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science,” RFK Jr. wrote. The liberal media understood immediately the significance of RFK Jr.’s housecleaning move. CNN quoted one of the fired members of ACIP as blustering that “This will fundamentally destabilize vaccination in America.” Rather, this cleanout might just end vaccine tyranny in the United States. Every member of ACIP whom RFK Jr. fired had been appointed by the Biden Administration. RFK Jr. vowed that the replacements he picks for ACIP “will exercise independent judgment, refuse to serve as a rubber stamp, and foster a culture of critical inquiry — unafraid to ask hard questions.” This is just what a good doctor would want for a healthy vaccine policy, and it’s apparently what Big Pharma fears.
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