RFK Jr.'s new ACIP Committee Members
RFK Jr continues to add new members to his ACIP Committee, which meets again next month to discuss long COVID as a vaccine injury.
The two new members are:
Sean G. Downing
They join Kirk Milhoan and twelve other voting members, nearly all who seem to be anti-vaccine.
RFK Jr.’s new ACIP Committee Members
How about these new members?
What are their views on vaccines?
Not surprisingly, Angelina Farella, a pediatrician and member of America’s Frontline Doctors, in testimony before Texas state lawmakers, she “criticized the COVID-19 vaccines and also repeated some erroneous claims about the vaccines.”
Farella, who has been labeled as an anti-vax doctor, has also:
called for COVID vaccines to be recalled
said that COVID patients should be treated with vitamin D, zinc, and other non-standard drugs
said that we could ‘crush the pandemic’ by treating patients, ‘not by vaccinating.’
started the Doctors Fight for Freedom organization after getting in trouble with the Texas Medical Board
posted that the RSV vaccine “has always been an utter failure”, three months after it was first licensed in 2023, reposting that it has killed 4,000 newborns!
said that tetanus vaccines aren’t necessary because the incidence rate of tetanus is ‘pretty non-existent’
promoted the idea of turbo cancer and it’s treatment with ivermectin
downplayed measles outbreaks
Sounds like she will fit in great with the rest of RFK Jr’s picks!
And Sean G. Downing?
He is med-peds and has a concierge medical practice in Florida.
His views on vaccines?
Who knows?
He is a black box.
But it would be surprise if they were any different from all of RFK Jr.’s other ACIP Committee picks!
These include:
Kimberly Biss - regularly posts misinformation about HPV vaccines, cervical cancer, measles, and chicken pox vaccines (they don’t cause outbreaks of shingles!)
Hillary Blackburn - the first pharmacist appointed to ACIP. She promotes the idea of individually based decision-making, even though most ACIP members push misinformation that keeps parents from making an informed decision.
Evelyn Griffin - has advocated for the use of ivermectin and has been against giving COVID vaccines to children.
Joseph R. Hibbeln - was only one of three votes to keep the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose and called vaccine criticism at an ACIP meeting “speculation based on limited evidence”
Retsef Levi - greatly overstated the risks of myocarditis from COVID vaccines and called for people to stop using them! He has no vaccine experience, leads the COVID vaccine work group, and seems to put great stock in VAERS reports.
Robert W. Malone - among other things, he posted a meme about how the unvaccinated Amish don’t get sick with vaccine preventable diseases - he was wrong on both counts! He also thinks that COVID vaccine are causing a form of vaccine-induced AIDS.
Cody Meissner - the best of a bad bunch, he routinely minimized the effects of COVID on children. Made a bizarre comparison of COVID deaths in children to lightning strikes! He did vigorously defend the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, but his arguments fell on deaf ears.
James Pagano - seems aligned with anti-vaccine members of RFK Jr.’s ACIP committee
Vicky Pebsworth Debold - a board member and volunteer director for the National Vaccine Information Center and believes that her autistic child was injured by the vaccines he received when he was 15 months old.
Raymond Pollak - was only one of three votes to keep the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose
Catherine Stein - published an article against COVID vaccine mandates for college students
Adam Urato - regularly posts misinformation about vaccines, including RSV vaccines and has concerns about women getting vaccines in pregnancy. He also thinks treating pregnant women with SSRIs is dangerous, neglecting to mention the big benefit of reducing the “harms of untreated perinatal mood disorders in pregnancy.”
Hardly a group that will make unbiased decisions about vaccines!
Which makes it easy to understand why the ACOG, one of 30 28 liaison organizations, joined the AAP in deciding they could no longer participate in these meetings.
“ACOG will continue to develop evidence-based vaccine guidance for ob-gyns and their patients and will regularly update its clinical guidance on immunizations based on peer-reviewed scientific data and in collaboration with other leading medical organizations committed to evidence-based medicine.”
ACOG Withdraws from CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
Which is why, now, instead of ACIP, you should look to the AAP and ACOG for trusted information about vaccines.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines