New York, June 12 -- U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight doctors and researchers, including two prominent critics of federal scientists and the Joe Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine policies, to replace roughly half the members he fired from an expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Kennedy made the announcement on social media platform X, two days after he fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
"The slate includes highly credentialed scientists, leading public-health experts, and some of America's most accomplished physicians," he wrote. Kennedy named Joseph R. Hibbeln, Martin Kulldorff, Retsef Levi, Robert W. Malon...