Who are RFK Jr.'s New ACIP Liaison Representatives?

And how anti-vax are they?

In addition to it’s voting members, the ACIP Committee traditionally has up to 33 non-voting liaison representatives that help them make decisions about vaccines.

“Liaison members don’t vote on the recommendations at the meetings but can ask questions and comment on presentations.”

HHS bars liaison members from ACIP work groups

In the BK era (Before Kennedy), these liaison members included the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists.

“The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) today announced its withdrawal as a liaison organization from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), citing concerns about recent changes that undermine the committee’s scientific integrity and evidence-based approach to vaccine policy.”

ACOG Withdraws from CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Of course, neither the AAP and ACOG are still associated with RFK Jr.’s ACIP Committee.

And you have to wonder why any of the other liaison members haven’t withdrawn yet, especially after anti-vaccine influencers like Aaron Siri have characterized them as “rabid vaccine zealots that promote vaccinating children like cattle.”

Adding anti-vaccine groups as ACIP liaisons isn’t “adding a little balance,” it is adding a lot of false balance!

In fact, the AAP has sued RFK Jr over all the changes he made to ACIP, including that he replaced all the ACIP Committee members with handpicked members that were simply helping put in place his anti-vaccine agenda.

And what was RFK Jr.’s response to the lawsuit, especially once a judge blocked all of his changes?

He has proposed a new charter for ACIP - one that allows Committee members without vaccine expertise!

Who are RFK Jr.’s New ACIP Liaison Representatives?

And he has added four new liaison representatives to the ACIP Committee.

These include:

• Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) - Jane Orient, MD is the executive director of the AAPS, which is best defined as a “a politically conservative non-profit association that promotes conspiracy theories and medical misinformation, such as HIV/AIDS denialism, climate change denial, the abortion–breast cancer hypothesis, and vaccine and autism connections, through its official publication, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, that masquerades as a legitimate scientific journal.”

• Independent Medical Alliance (formerly FLCCC) - the organization founded during COVID by Paul Marik and Pierre Kory that focuses on non-evidence based COVID treatments and post-vaccine treatment recovery. Also pushes the idea that “clinically significant shedding of spike protein from the vaccinated to others is occurring.”

• Medical Academy of Pediatrics and Special Needs (MAPS) - an organization that promotes “integrative” treatments for many pediatric conditions, from ADHD and asthma to autism. Most are biomed therapies that have not been proven to be helpful and may actually be harmful, including IV therapy, platelet replacement therapy (TruDOSE), lipid replacement therapy, hyperbaric therapies (HBOT) , chelation therapies, IVIG. That should be no surprise to anyone who understand that MAPS provided are simply the new DAN! Doctors. And yes, their members include a who’s who of anti-vaccine influencers, including Liz Mumper, Larry Palevsky, Mollie James, Angie Farella, and Stephanie Cave.

• Physicians for Informed Consent - formed by Shira Miller, the ironically named Physicians for Informed Consent mostly puts out misinformation about vaccines, saying that the risks of vaccines are much greater than the risks of the diseases they prevent.

So clearly, all four new liaison members to ACIP will fit right in with RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda…

Who Have RFK Jr.’s New ACIP Liaison Representatives Said About Vaccines?

Not convinced that these organizations shouldn’t be associated with ACIP?

Let’s take a look at some of the things they have recently said about vaccines…

First there is Shira Miller and her Physicians for Informed Consent. On their Disease Information Statement for diphtheria, which I guess are supposed to mimic the Vaccine Information Sheets from the BK CDC, they say that:

“Research studies estimate that, in the absence of mass vaccination, the annual risk of a child younger than 10 years of age contracting a fatal case of diphtheria in the U.S. in the 21st century is about 1 in 1.7 million or 0.00006%.”

Diphtheria – Disease Information Statement (DIS) - Physicians for Informed Consent

While that estimate is likely low (there were 100s of deaths in the 1950s when a vaccine was available), let’s just assume it is correct.

Do you know what that means in terms of kids dying with diphtheria, or ‘the Strangling Angel’ each year?

Since there are about 40 million children under age ten years, even at that low rate, it would mean that nearly 24 kids would die each year with diphtheria!

Is that really what we want?

And the others?

• The AAPS, in an article by Harold Buttram, suggests that shaken baby syndrome is really vaccine induced encephalitis…

• The IMA, in their Parent’s Guide to Childhood Immunizations, states that vaccines such as MMR, HPV, COVID, polio, flu, and other combination vaccines “are protecting children from a disease that often poses very little threat to their health.” This despite the fact that thousands of kids died each in the pre-vaccine era, and hundreds of mostly unvaccinated kids still die with flu!

• The MEDMAPS folks include many anti-vaccine influencers and many other members seem to encourage parents to skip or delay getting vaccinated.

Again, they will fit right in with RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda…

More on RFK Jr.’s ACIP Committee

• Which Immunization Schedule Should You Follow?

• MAHA Advice if You Are Worried About Measles Outbreaks

• Who’s Who at the MAHA Institute Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury Round Table

• ACOG Withdraws from CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

• American Academy of Pediatrics et al. v. Kennedy et al.

• Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off

• HHS bars liaison members from ACIP work groups