Lyn Redwood, a nurse practitioner who also formerly headed Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine organization which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chaired from 2015-2023, will make a presentation on thimerosal on vaccines at Thursday’s meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Her presentation was added in an updated agenda posted on the ACIP website.
However, the presentation is already drawing fire over accusations that it cites a study that doesn’t exist. The presentation mentions “Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain,” which was allegedly published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, and co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.
An earlier agenda listed a presentation on thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism to be presented by Vivien Dugan, head of the influenza division at the CDC. That presentation found no link between the two. The agenda no longer lists Dugan making that presentation.
Another addition to the agenda is that ACIP Chair Martin Kulldorff will make a presentation on the measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccines in children under the age of four.
Kulldorff is a biostatistician and former Harvard Medical School professor who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine. During the pandemic, he spoke out against vaccinating children against the virus, mask mandates. and lockdowns.
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