RFK Jr. picked eight new members for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, after ousting 17 independent vaccine experts.

Kennedy said the picks will demand “definitive safety and efficacy data” for vaccine recommendations. His choices include at least three critics of mRNA coronavirus vaccines.

His picks for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices include a well-known pediatric infectious-diseases expert and at least three 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 is listed on the board of the nation’s oldest anti-vaccine group.

Caption from article by Lena H. Sun and Lauren Weber.

what are we doing here again sir you fired the entire advisory committee on immunization practices and now we’re interviewing their replacements oh right okay this is Martin Culdorf hey the co-author of the great Bington Declaration what have you written in your publication this declaration in 2020 i called for herd immunity through mass co infections says here you’re a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School yes but I was fired after writing that pushing for co vaccinations undermined the public trust in vaccines you’re hired cool okay next is Vicky PBS hi i’m a board member on the nation’s oldest antivaccine group i see i have repeatedly expressed concerns about the potential harms from the COVID vaccine you’re hired cool this is Rhett Seph Levi a professor at MIT i tweeted that mRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death and that we have to stop giving them immediately hired super okay so we’ll add those three to the other five that you’ve already chosen you know I once left a dead bear in Central Park yes sir we’ve mentioned that