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Jun 23, 2025 CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices cited a study in an official presentation that the named author said did not exist Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
Fabricated references in federal vaccine policy documents corrupt the scientific basis of public health guidance.
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- Case update — D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10676 — The Supreme Court stopped a lower court's order which has prevented the administration from removing immigrants to third countries without an opportunity to present their claims of potential torture first. The Supreme Court's order is now in place while the litigation proceeds. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented.
- CDC presentation included nonexistent vaccine study — On June 24, a presentation scheduled for Thursday's meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was found to have included a study that does not appear to exist after it was published on the agency's website. The presentation by Lyn Redwood, a former leader of an anti-vaccine group, claimed that the nonexistent study found that the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have "long-term consequences in the brain."
- ACIP agenda cites study that author says was not conducted or published — The ACIP panel's new agenda cited a study that the cited author stated he did not conduct or publish, according to Reuters reporting. This continues a pattern of Kennedy's health department producing references to garbled or nonexistent studies while Kennedy repeatedly touts "gold-standard" science.
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