RFK Jr Fires the Vaccine Advisory Panel — But Keeps the Raw Milk

He promised the Senate he wouldn’t. He lied. And now, public health pays the price.

Jun 09, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the raw-milk-chugging, anti-vaccine heir to a name that once meant public service, just fired the CDC’s Vaccine Advisory Committee. Quietly. Without warning. Without consulting them. Without science.

This isn’t a drill. This isn’t a misstep. This is a deliberate dismantling of one of the few remaining bipartisan guardrails protecting Americans — especially children — from the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Let’s be clear: the Vaccine Advisory Committee isn’t some rubber-stamp bureaucracy. It’s a group of the nation’s most respected, independent physician-scientists — immunologists, epidemiologists, infectious disease experts — who volunteer their time to guide national vaccine policy using actual data, clinical trials, and decades of medical experience.

They don’t answer to Big Pharma. They don’t trend on TikTok. They answer to science.

And now they’re gone — because RFK Jr. would rather take public health advice from Paul Saladino, the carnival barker of raw meat and sunbathed testicles.

A Lie to the Senate, a Betrayal of the Public

RFK Jr. made one very specific promise during his confirmation process: he swore he would not fire the Vaccine Advisory Committee.

That promise — extracted during his hearing by Senator Bill Cassidy (a physician, by the way) — was the reason he got the vote. Cassidy said, essentially, “I’ll hold my nose and vote for you if you keep the experts.”

So RFK Jr. did what every grifter does best: he lied.

And with that lie, he didn’t just betray a Senator. He betrayed the immunocompromised. He betrayed parents. He betrayed cancer patients. He betrayed anyone who depends on accurate, timely, science-based vaccine recommendations — which, by the way, is all of us.

When Instagram Clout Trumps Immunology

You can’t simultaneously sip bacterial milk with Paul Saladino and claim to care about public health.

You don’t fire the nation's top vaccine experts if you want real oversight.

This is a dismantling of the immune system of public health — and the diseases aren’t waiting. We’re already seeing measles outbreaks in multiple states. Polio’s shown up again in wastewater. Pertussis is on the rise.

And now? The people who help stop those outbreaks have been shown the door so RFK Jr. can make room for his hand-picked echo chamber.

This Is Not "Health Freedom." This Is Hostage-Taking.

RFK Jr. isn’t promoting health freedom. He’s promoting medical nihilism — dressed up in constitutional cosplay and Instagram aesthetics. And we are all less safe because of it.

He made a promise to protect scientific integrity.
He broke it.

He said he’d respect the process.
He dismantled it.

He claimed to speak for the people.
But he only listens to the influencers.

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He Has to Go.

If you're still pretending this is just politics, it's time to wake up. This isn’t about left vs. right — it’s about truth vs. delusion. It's about data vs. dogma. It's about whether the CDC listens to virologists — or to guys who believe seed oils are a bioweapon.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not fit to lead American public health. And if we care about protecting our kids, our communities, and our scientific institutions, we need to say it loudly:

Fire RFK Jr. — before his ignorance infects more than just his cabinet.