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RFK Jr. Appoints Fierce Vaccine Critic Dr. Robert Malone, 7 Others To Immunization Committee

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June 11, 2025

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed Dr. Robert Malone, an outspoken COVID-19 vaccine critic, to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), he announced in a Wednesday tweet.

Malone, a trained virologist, was a key innovator of the mRNA technology that early COVID-19 vaccines were developed from.

“I do believe that the short cuts that the USG have taken in bringing the mRNA and the adenovirus vaccines to market for this pandemic have been detrimental and contrary to globally accepted standards for developing and regulating safe and effective licensed products,” Malone wrote in 2021.

“I thank the Secretary for the honor of serving my country in this way, and will do my best to serve with unbiased objectivity and rigor,” Malone told the Daily Caller.

On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s…

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) June 11, 2025

Joining Malone on ACIP are Joseph R. Hibbeln, MD, Martin Kulldorff, MD, PhD, Retsef Levi, PhD, Cody Meissner, MD, James Pagano, MD, Vicky Pebsworth, OP, PhD, RN and Michael A. Ross, MD.

Meisnner, who previously served on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) was also an early critic of the US’s COVID-19 response.

In 2021, Meisnner co-authored an op-ed alongside FDA Director Marty Makary (then a surgeon at Johns Hopkins) criticizing the practice of forcing children to wear masks.

Dr. Kulldorf was a signatory to the Great Barrington Declaration, an October 2020 open letter signed by thousands of medical doctors, epidemiologists and virologists criticizing mass lockdowns.

The eight new members will attend ACIP’s June 25 meeting, Kennedy Jr. announced on X.

“They have each committed to demanding definitive safety and efficacy data before making any new vaccine recommendations,” Kennedy Jr. tweeted.

Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of ACIP on Monday, citing a need for more transparency on the committee. ACIP makes recommendations to the CDC on the routine vaccination schedules for children and adults.

His push for increased transparency and ending conflicts of interest led to his creation of a new web tool allowing citizens to search those conflicts of interests between CDC advisors and the pharmaceutical industry. (RELATED: Big Pharma Tax Loophole Costs Americans Over $1 Billion Per Year, According To Recent Study)

On Tuesday Kennedy Jr. sent out a long post on X outlining previous conflicts of interest within ACIP, citing the “historical corruption” on the committee.

Yesterday, I retired 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, the @CDCgov external panel that wields the grave responsibility of adding new vaccines to the recommended childhood schedule. Over the coming days, I will use this platform to announce…

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) June 10, 2025