‘A bunch of cranks’: RFK Jr. stacks CDC Vaccine Advisory panel with anti-vaxxers and conspiracists

A little known but critically important panel of public health experts, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, meets around this time every summer to fine-tune vaccine guidelines. Now, those recommendations usually go straight to the CDC director who typically approves them without any issue. While the committee rarely draws public attention, its work is vital to protecting Americans from vaccinereventable diseases.In fact, countries around the world have modeled their immunization progra ...