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Exclusive: Kennedy picks for vaccine advisory board were paid experts against Merck in civil cases

Max Bayer

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Alexis Kramer

Deputy Editor

Drew Armstrong

Executive Editor

Two of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new appointees to the CDC’s vaccine advisory board have previously served as paid expert witnesses for plaintiffs …

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Exclusive: Kennedy picks for vaccine advisory board were paid experts against Merck in civil cases

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Drew Armstrong

Executive Editor

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Exclusive: Kennedy picks for vaccine advisory board were paid experts against Merck in civil cases