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Dec. 5, 2025, 5:16 PM ESTBy Aria BendixAn anti-vaccine lawyer who has regularly sued federal and state health agencies spoke Friday at a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel — an unheard-of departure for the committee, which for decades was a trusted source for vaccine recommendations.The lawyer, Aaron Siri, has also served as the personal attorney for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist. Siri delivered a lengthy presentation about the childhood immunization schedule, chronicling what he said were concerning adverse events from routine vaccines and calling particular attention to vaccines for hepatitis B, pneumococcal disease and a combination shot for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). Previously, Siri has advocated for the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.Art Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, said Siri’s presence at the meeting suggests that the panel, known formally as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is “trying to use a pre-committed ideology to get where they want to go, which is to get rid of childhood vaccination.” “This is a science issue, and he’s the wrong guy, with the wrong conflicts, with the wrong style, with the wrong information,” Caplan said.Siri also pointed to a supposed link between autism and vaccines given in the first six months of life — a claim that has been widely debunked — arguing that there are no studies to disprove the link. “If you’re going to say vaccines don’t cause autism, have the data to say it,” Siri said.Decades of research, including extensive probes into the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, has found no link between vaccines and autism. A large Danish study from July found no association between aluminum exposure from vaccines during the first two years of life and increased rates of neurodevelopmental disorders. And a massive review in 2021, which evaluated 138 studies, determined that MMR vaccines don’t cause autism.Siri suggested at the meeting that a shortcoming of several childhood vaccines is their failure to prevent transmission, pointing to research on a type of whooping cough vaccine in infant baboons. Public health experts argue that the goal of those shots is to prevent symptomatic disease and death. He further suggested that childhood vaccines weren’t properly evaluated for safety — despite decades of continuous monitoring for side effects.“The concern is that not one of them was licensed based on an inert, a placebo-controlled clinical trial,” Siri said.People who question the safety of vaccines often suggest that trials should be conducted with an inert placebo — meaning some trial participants would receive the new vaccine while others would receive an inactive substance like saline, to compare results.However, public health experts say there’s a legitimate reason not to use a placebo in some cases: It would be unethical to withhold the benefit of a vaccine from study participants, so trials often test new vaccines against older versions.“Siri’s claim that childhood vaccines were ‘never tested against placebo’ is a talking point, not a fact,” Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford Medicine, said via text message. “Inert placebo-controlled trials exist for most of the routine childhood vaccines, including large studies using saline or sterile water controls published in major journals.” Scott testified before Congress in September that his research team had documented 398 randomized control trials that evaluate the active ingredients in childhood vaccines and use inert placebos such as saline or sterile water.Dr. Cody Meissner, a pediatrician and the only ACIP member who has previously served on the committee, said Siri’s presentation was “a terrible, terrible distortion of all the facts.”“For you to come here and make these absolutely outrageous statements about safety, it’s a big disappointment to me and I don’t think you should have been invited, I will be completely honest,” Meissner said during the meeting.Siri’s unorthodox presentation followed a day and a half of chaotic proceedings, in which advisory members and presenters made false claims about the safety and efficacy of hepatitis B vaccines and cherry-picked data. The committee voted Friday morning to roll back a long-standing recommendation for all newborns to get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead, the advisers said women who test negative for hepatitis B can consult with a health care provider about whether their baby should get the birth dose.Kennedy fired the previous members of the advisory panel in June over what he claimed were “persistent conflicts of interest,” and replaced them with a group that has largely expressed skepticism of vaccines.Siri disclosed a litany of conflicts at Friday’s meeting, including numerous ongoing lawsuits against the Department of Health and Human Services and its subsidiary agencies. Those include lawsuits over purported Covid vaccine injuries and exemptions to vaccine mandates, he said. Siri previously sued the CDC to compel it to turn over studies demonstrating that vaccines don’t cause autism.Siri said he was asked to speak Friday alongside Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. Hotez said he declined the request because “ACIP appears to have shifted its mission away from science and evidence-based medicine.” Offit, who has similarly accused the committee of becoming political, said he could not recall receiving an invitation, but would not have attended the meeting regardless.Caplan, the medical ethicist, said such a debate would not have been productive. “We don’t really need to debate evolution again, probably don’t need to debate settled opinion about whether we went to the moon — and we don’t need to debate this,” he said.Aria BendixAria Bendix is the breaking health reporter for NBC News Digital.
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Nov. 7, 2025, 4:49 PM EST / Updated Nov. 7, 2025, 6:01 PM ESTBy Corky SiemaszkoFlying anywhere for the Thanksgiving holiday is likely to be tortuous for legions of travelers — even if the government shutdown ends today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Friday.Hundreds of flights during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year could be affected by staffing shortages of air traffic controllers. The shortages have been exacerbated by the shutdown, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to implement unprecedented flight reductions.Follow live coverage here. And those staff shortages — at least for now — appear to be set in stone for Thanksgiving, Duffy said.’It’s been awful’: Passengers experience rough travels amid FAA flight disruptions03:36″So if the government opens on day one, will I see an immediate response from controllers? No, the union is telling me it’s going to take time to get them all back in,” Duffy told CNN on Friday when asked if the flight reductions would spill into the holiday. “I don’t wish this was the circumstance in which I was dealing with,” he said. “So I imagine, as we see the data change and more controllers come to work, we are as quickly as possible going to take these restrictions away.”The FAA announced it would begin cutting the number of flights in the “high traffic” parts of the country while the government shutdown grinds on and local airports contend with the staffing shortages.The flight reductions went into effect Friday, on Day 38 of the federal government shutdown, now the longest such shutdown in U.S. history.The FAA is requiring 4% of flights in and out of 40 of the nation’s busiest airport to be cut and that percentage will gradually increase to 10% by next Friday.Duffy, in an interview Friday with Fox News, also raised the possibility of reducing up to 20% of flights at some airports. “I don’t want to see that,” he said. The airports facing reductions include Chicago O’Hare, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Miami International Airport and all three New York-area airports.FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said Thursday the move to reduce the number of flights was sparked by “fatigue” plaguing air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay since the start of the shutdown.Bedford said airports across the country were already contending with staffing shortages before most government operations ground to a halt.Air traffic controllers are considered essential workers and are not allowed to walk off their jobs. But they’re also exhausted, said Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.“It’s unprecedented to go through two full paychecks, 37 days, and receive no compensation,” he said Thursday. “So it’s not a matter of calling in sick. They’re calling their employer and saying, ‘I don’t have gas. I have not received pay in 37 days. What do you want me to do?’”Patrick Penfield, a Syracuse University professor of supply chain practice, said cutting flights could also make it harder for retailers to replenish their stocks of “hot” items for the holiday season.”Forty percent to 50% of all air freight is shipped in the belly of passenger planes,” Penfield said. “If you eliminate 10% of airline capacity, air freight prices will rise, and we could see delays in getting materials via air.”Corky SiemaszkoCorky Siemaszko is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital.Jay Blackman contributed.
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