Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sensationally ousted every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Biden-appointed group that made recommendations on the necessity and use of vaccines, in the first of a series of sweeping changes.
The decision to remove all 17 members of the scientific committee, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and replace them with his own picks, was described as “a clean sweep” by President Trump’s health secretary in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Monday.
“Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028,” RFK Jr. wrote.
“A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.”
Kennedy Jr., one of the leading anti-vaccine activists in the US, did not say whom he would appoint to the panel, but said the committee would meet in Atlanta in two weeks.
All of the current committee members were brought in under the Biden administration, while 13 of them were brought on only last year.
It will take until 2028 for most of the members to be replaced if they serve their full terms, Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services said.
One just-dismissed ACIP member claimed they did not receive a termination notice until after the publication of RFK Jr.’s WSJ op-ed — and slammed the move as “damaging.” --->READ MORE HERE
A Chinese researcher allegedly tried to smuggle biological materials into the US from Wuhan and lied to the feds about the secretive scheme.
Chengxuan Han was arrested Sunday after landing at the Detroit Metropolitan airport on a flight from Shanghai, according to charging documents. She was charged with smuggling goods into the US and making false statements.
Han is the third Chinese scientist to be charged with smuggling illegal biological materials into Michigan in recent weeks.
Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu, 34, were caught last year allegedly trying to smuggle samples of a dangerous crop-killing fungus into the US, the FBI said. Jian, a Communist Party loyalist and lab researcher at the University of Michigan who received Chinese government funding for her work, was charged last week in a ploat the national security insiders called “an attack on US food supply.”
Upon Han’s arrival to the US, border officers discovered Han sent four packages that “contained biological material related to round worms” from China, according to court documents.
The packages, which were sent in both 2024 and 2025, were addressed to individuals associated with a laboratory at the University of Michigan.
However, Han lied to officers and said she didn’t send packages to members of the Michigan lab, according to court documents. She also claimed the packages contained plastic cups, rather than petri dishes. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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