RFK’s anti-vax agenda endangers the entire Trump reform drive

Word of warning to Health Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr.: Restoring Americans’ trust in the feds’ public-health decisions means hiring truly fair-minded, science-driven folks — not anti-vax crackpots.

RFK Jr. last week canned all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), saying: “A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.”

Most of them got appointed just last year to terms that would last through 2028, so Kennedy would’ve had to fire at least some to have much impact on the panel — and President Joe Biden set clear precedent for axing supposedly bi- and non-partisan advisory-board members.

Yes, ACIP members are supposed to be unbiased experts, but vaccine recommendations nonetheless plainly did get politicized in the Biden years (along with a lot of other public-health “science,” such as guidelines for reopening schools).