Independent Press
June 12, 2025 at 08:42 PM
🇺🇸 *Kennedy's new vaccine adviser was expert witness against Merck vaccine*
One of the new vaccine advisers picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned thousands of dollars as an expert witness in litigation against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, court records show.
Martin Kulldorff, a biostatistician and epidemiologist who publicly criticized COVID-era lockdowns, is one of eight new members named by Kennedy on Wednesday to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a highly influential panel that recommends which shots should be administered to the American public.
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic fired the entire previous 17-member committee of expert vaccine advisers this week, claiming they were "plagued with persistent conflicts of interest" from financial ties to drugmakers. Kulldorff is also listed as an expert witness in a similar case pending against Merck in Los Angeles state court, records show.
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