{"id":4547,"date":"2025-06-12T23:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-committee-conflicts-of-interest-expert\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T23:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:03:41","slug":"rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-committee-conflicts-of-interest-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-committee-conflicts-of-interest-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: I study conflicts of interest. Here\u2019s why RFK Jr.\u2019s approach to the vaccine advisory committee could backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: I study conflicts of interest. Here\u2019s why RFK Jr.\u2019s approach to the vaccine advisory committee could backfire<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to \u201cclean up the corruption and conflicts\u201d at HHS, he is going about it the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>I study conflicts of interest at federal agencies. While industry influence is a widely shared concern, Kennedy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/09\/rfk-jr-fires-every-member-of-cdc-vaccine-expert-panel-acip\/\">dismissal<\/a> of all the members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory committee, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/11\/rfk-jr-names-new-acip-members-replaces-cdc-vaccine-experts-he-just-fired\/\">rapid hiring of eight replacements<\/a>, could easily misfire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/12\/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-committee-conflicts-of-interest-expert\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Genevieve P. Kanter<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/12\/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-committee-conflicts-of-interest-expert\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: I study conflicts of interest. Here\u2019s why RFK Jr.\u2019s approach to the vaccine advisory committee could backfire If Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to \u201cclean up the corruption and conflicts\u201d at HHS, he is going about it the wrong way. I study conflicts of interest at federal agencies. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,1537,2146,2143,2144,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-ethics","category-fda","category-first-opinion","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}