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‘Clean Sweep’: RFK Jr. Boots Entire CDC ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Vax Panel

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired every member of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel in a sweeping move he says is meant to restore public trust, but critics are calling it reckless and radical.

In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) had been plagued by conflicts of interest, rubber-stamp behavior, and opaque decision-making for decades – and that only a “clean sweep” could fix it.

The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine. It has never recommended against a vaccine—even those later withdrawn for safety reasons. It has failed to scrutinize vaccine products given to babies and pregnant women. To make matters worse, the groups that inform ACIP meet behind closed doors, violating the legal and ethical principle of transparency crucial to maintaining public trust. -RFK Jr.

The 17-member ACIP panel – made up of independent scientists, doctors, and public health professionals – was scheduled to meet later this month to review recommendations, including those involving COVID-19 vaccinations for children. That meeting will still go ahead, but without the current panelists, some of whom Kennedy said were ‘last-minute Biden appointees’ whose terms would have otherwise extended until 2028.

“Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028,” Kennedy wrote. 

Kennedy’s defenders say this is exactly the kind of bold move needed to break the credibility crisis surrounding vaccine science and government health agencies. The new appointees, he pledged, “won’t directly work for the vaccine industry” and will “refuse to serve as a rubber stamp,” instead fostering “a culture of critical inquiry”.

But critics say the move reeks of ideology and raises fears that Kennedy will stack the committee with vaccine skeptics or unqualified appointees, further eroding trust.

“Firing experts that have spent their entire lives protecting kids from deadly disease is not reform — it’s reckless, radical, and rooted in conspiracy, not science,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a scathing statement.

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ORWELLIAN CONTROL MACHINE: Again, CDC screaming for everyone to mask up on flights to flatten new Covid curve and push clot-shot VACCINATIONS

The CDC, Centers for Disease Continuance, will push propaganda to the limits in order to coerce the populace into getting jabbed up with any toxic concoction they dream up. It’s lab to jab, with no science to back up the “safe and effective” claims they’ve been spewing for 75 years. Now they want everybody wearing face diapers on all flights so that we’ll all believe that deadly Covid variants are floating on those aerosol particles and infecting the world, again, so we’ll all dash to the doc-in-tha-box and get stuck in the arm with the deadliest jabs ever created. Rinse and repeat.

  • No Return to Mask Mandates Expected: Despite purported rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, public health experts and airlines confirm that mask requirements for air travel are unlikely to return, even as colder weather increases respiratory virus risks and the CDC pushes their propaganda again
  • CDC’s Authority and Industry Pushback: The CDC’s 2021 mask mandate for transportation was struck down by a federal judge for overreach, and airlines have since maintained optional policies. Industry leaders oppose reinstating mandates, calling them ineffective and burdensome.
  • Current CDC Guidance Focuses on Localized Risks: The CDC now ties mask recommendations to regional hospitalization levels — currently low in 92% of the U.S. — and denies rumors of impending federal mandates, emphasizing voluntary precautions instead.
  • Public Sentiment and Pandemic Shifts Make Mandates Unlikely: Experts cite reduced pandemic severity and widespread resistance to masking as barriers to renewed mandates, though some high-risk settings (e.g., hospitals, schools) may still enforce them locally.

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4 Vaccines for Pregnant Women? Doctors and Scientists Explain Why CDC Recommendation Is Dangerous

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends pregnant women get at least four vaccines: COVID-19, flu, whooping cough and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Critics say the shots provide questionable benefit while posing known risks — including increased miscarriage rates and exposure to neurotoxins.

According to the CDC, maternal vaccines are important “because pregnant women and their babies can get sick from diseases like COVID-19, flu, RSV and more.”

What the CDC doesn’t say is that if a pregnant woman gets a vaccine, there is a 100% chance that she will be exposed to vaccine ingredients that may harm her and her baby, according to Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense senior research scientist.

“There is a probability of disease exposure during pregnancy — but toxic exposure is assured with vaccination,” Jablonowski said. “Vaccines work by antagonizing the body with toxins, toxoids and other antigens to elicit an immune response. Pregnant women in modern medicine are trapped between fear and hazards.”

Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist and author of more than 1,000 publications, said that vaccines “are not medically necessary nor clinically indicated” during a healthy woman’s pregnancy.

“The downsides of vaccination during pregnancy can be serious,” McCullough said. “Vaccine-induced inflammation and fever can provoke a miscarriage, stillbirth or premature delivery, leaving the baby to face all the problems of being a ‘preemie.’”

That’s why many women tell their obstetricians they want to go “natural” and not take risks that come with vaccination, McCullough added.

Still, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists endorses the CDC’s recommendation that pregnant women get the COVID-19, RSV, Tdap and flu vaccines.

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Profanity-ridden Emails, Misuse of CDC Funds: How Big Fluoride Tries to Prevent Towns From Cleaning Up Their Water

When Washburn, North Dakota’s town commissioners decided in January to take up the issue of whether or not to continue fluoridating the water supply for the town’s 1,300 residents, they anticipated researching the risks versus benefits and putting the matter to a vote.

What they didn’t anticipate — but soon encountered — was evidence of a coordinated effort by state actors and a national fluoride lobby group, using federal money, to crush local efforts by small towns like Washburn to stop fluoridating their water supplies.

On Monday night, town commissioners voted 4-1 to stop adding fluoride to Washburn’s water supply — making Washburn the latest in a growing list of communities across the country to end the practice in light of mounting scientific evidence that the chemical harms children’s health and provides little or no dental benefit.

At the meeting, Commissioner Keith Hapip shared what he said was evidence of astroturfing by Dr. Johnny Johnson, president of the American Fluoridation Society; Jim Kershaw, Bismarck, North Dakota’s water plant superintendent and others.

“Astroturfing is when a group with money and power pretends to be regular folks supporting something, but it’s really a planned push from the top,” Hapip said. “Real grassroots come from the community naturally. And here, the oral health program used CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] cash to manufacture support for fluoridation in Washburn.”

Johnson phoned into the meeting to advocate for water fluoridation. In response, the commission also hosted a presentation by Michael Connett — the attorney who represented the plaintiffs who won alandmark ruling in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the agency’s failure to appropriately regulate fluoride use in water supplies.

Dr. Griffin Cole, conference chairman of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, who has expertise on fluoride’s toxic effects, also made a presentation.

Interviews by The Defender with grassroots actors across the country revealed that for years, Johnson, one of the country’s foremost advocates of water fluoridation, has been intervening in grassroots efforts to end fluoridation in their communities.

He and colleagues — in this case, Kershaw — travel physically or virtually to meetings in towns across the country.

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Senator Johnson: Did a Top CDC Official Destroy Covid Vaccine Files?

Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is asking federal police agencies to investigate whether a top CDC official destroyed records containing data about the safety of Covid-19 “vaccines.”

Johnson, who is chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter on April 9 to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG), about Dr. Tom Shimabukuro. Johnson wrote:

I recently learned that a top official at the [CDC] who led the effort to identify COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, may have deleted or destroyed agency records and communications. If true, these actions would be a clear obstruction of my oversight efforts and a violation of federal record-keeping requirements.… HHS officials recently informed me that Dr. Shimabukuro’s records remain lost and, potentially, removed from HHS’s email system altogether.

Investigation Needed

The Wisconsin senator calls Shimabukuro’s potential misdeeds “highly concerning,” especially since his job includes monitoring harmful side effects of the Covid-19 injection. He is now asking the DOJ and FBI to investigate “the extent to which officials with HHS and its sub-agencies, including Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, deleted or destroyed official agency records,” and if they did this to avoid compliance with the investigation.  

On November 19, Johnson told officials at the CDC, HHS, and Food and Drug Administration to preserve all records “referring or relating to the development, safety, and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.” He has long been on the hunt for accurate information regarding the controversial injections. He believes the world has yet to learn the true destruction they have, and continue, to bring about.

Part of a Pattern

This isn’t the first piece of evidence suggesting that CDC employees destroyed vital public records regarding the Covid injection. In November 2023, Congress learned that National Institutes of Health (NIH) senior adviser Dr. David Morens kept very few emails or documents that detailed the government’s response to the COVID-19. Morens told his colleagues to send communications about sensitive issues directly to his Gmail address. Johnson mentioned this in his letter to FBI and DOJ officials:

I had always suspected that Dr. Morens was not the sole evader of federal record-keeping requirements at HHS. The extent to which HHS officials systemically mishandled, deleted, or destroyed their communications, data, and other information relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccines must be thoroughly investigated.

Covid Vax History

The U.S. government began its coercive Covid-19 injection campaign in early 2021. The stated goal was to inject as many people as possible. Some experts warned right away that the shots weren’t all they were cracked up to be. In April 2021, internationally renowned doctor Peter McCullough told The New American that early data were already indicating the shot was causing thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalizations. That same month, microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi warned that the injection would lead to clotting as well as immune system problems.

In November 2021, Dr. Robert Malone, an inventor of mRNA technology, called the shot “the largest experiment performed on human beings in the history of the world.” By then, Malone had become one of the most respected figures to protest the irrational approaches of the vaccination campaign. He especially had a problem with the “experts” not taking natural immunity into account and that they were pushing the injection on low-risk populations comprising young, healthy people.

It just so happens that Shimabukuro has downplayed the consequences of the jab. As noted by The Defender, in an April 2023 presentation to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Shimabukuro said international regulatory and public-health partners did not detect concerns “for ischemic stroke following bivalent COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccination.” But a peer-reviewed study published in November 2024 found that mRNA Covid-19 vaccines pose a 112,000-percent greater risk of brain clots and strokes than flu vaccines, and a 20,700-percent greater risk of those symptoms than all other vaccines combined. The study called for a worldwide moratorium on mRNA vaccines.

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CDC Advisers Lean Toward Recommending Narrower Use of COVID-19 Vaccines

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are considering advising the agency to narrow common use of COVID-19 vaccines, according to a document made public on April 14.

A majority of experts in a subgroup of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the CDC on vaccines, have determined that the COVID-19 vaccines should not be universally recommended, the document says.

Seventy-six percent of the advisers in the subgroup studying the matter said they support a non-universal recommendation as of April 3.

That’s up from 67 percent in February.

Advisers said they would be comfortable with any non-universal recommendation, such as only recommending the vaccines for certain age groups.

The polling was disclosed in a presentation that is set to be presented by Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a CDC employee who helps lead the advisory committee’s COVID-19 work group, to a CDC meeting on April 14.

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Dr. David Weldon’s stance on the safety of MMR vaccines 25 years ago has led to a loss of support for his CDC nomination

Dr. David Weldon has withdrawn his bid to become director of the CDC.  He believes, as do many, that Big Pharma has influenced Senators so that it is unlikely that he would have garnered sufficient votes to confirm his appointment.

Why does Big Pharma not want Dr. Weldon in the CDC?  Because of the stance he took 25 years ago on the lack of safety of childhood vaccines.

Dr. David Weldon is an American politician and physician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida’s 15th congressional district.  In November 2024, Donald Trump nominated Weldon as the next director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) but Trump withdrew the nomination in March 2025 due to concerns about Dr. Weldon’s anti-vaccine views and lack of support in the Senate.

Earlier today, Brownstone Institute published a statement from Dr. Weldon which explains why he withdrew his nomination.  Dr. Weldon believes that it is likely Big Pharma exerted pressure on Senators to withdraw support for his nomination based on events that happened decades earlier.   “My big sin was that as a congressman 25 years ago I had the temerity to take on the CDC and big Pharma on two critical childhood vaccine safety issues,” he said.

One of the safety issues related to a neurotoxic preservative called thimerosal, a mercury-containing organic compound, in childhood vaccines that was causing autism.  The second was the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, or MMR vaccine.

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CDC to study link between vaccines and autism in bombshell move

The CDC will study the potential link between vaccines and autism, sources have revealed.

Two sources told Reuters the agency is planning a large study into the long disproven connection. 

It is unclear whether newly appointed health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has long been skeptical of vaccines, is involved in the planned study or how it would be carried out. 

The CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could not immediately be reached for comment.

The bombshell move comes amid one of the largest measles outbreaks in US history, with more than 150 cases across the country and two deaths in Texas and New Mexico. 

Experts believe the outbreak has been fueled by declining vaccination rates in parts of the US.

Kennedy, whose role includes authority over the CDC, has long sowed doubt over the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, along with Covid shots made by Pfizer and Moderna. 

However, he did make a U-turn move earlier this week when he urged people to get the shot to prevent measles. 

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The Big Freeze at HHS, CDC, and NIH

Part of the sweep of government in the first days of the Trump administration has been a freeze on communications. The explosion has hit the whole of public health bureaucracies, including HHS, which Trump personally blames in part for the meltdown of his previous term of president in his last year. The pause in operations is designed to figure out exactly what is going on. 

It is certainly not the case that Donald Trump wants you to die, contrary to Paul Krugman’s claim. No longer writing at the New York Times, he reserved his rather extreme view for his Substack account. 

Recall that Krugman was 100 percent for lockdowns and all the rest including the fake science behind vaccine mandates. While most of the world was in cages, he was proclaiming the dawn of the great reset. With that reversed, he has reverted to form.

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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

 U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.”

Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing global threats. It also comes as health authorities around the world are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among U.S. livestock.

The Associated Press viewed a copy of Nkengasong’s memo, which said the stop-work policy applied to “all CDC staff engaging with WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means — in person or virtual.” It also says CDC staff are not allowed to visit WHO offices.

President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO requires the approval of Congress and that the U.S. meets its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. The U.S. also must provide a one-year notice.

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