Big Pharma and their friends in mainstream media went all hands on deck against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when they announced last week the appointment of two new members to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
“These appointments reflect the commitment of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to transparency, gold standard science, and diverse expertise in guiding the nation’s immunization policies,” the HHS announced. “In June 2025, Secretary Kennedy reconstituted ACIP to restore public trust in vaccines.”
The new members appointed are two gynecologists:
• Adam Urato, M.D., Obstetrician and Gynecologist specializing in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Dr. Urato has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida, and Tufts University School of Medicine.
• Kimberly Biss, M.D., Obstetrician and Gynecologist in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Biss has held multiple hospital leadership positions at Bayfront Health/Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, including Chief of Staff, Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Medical Executive Board Officer.
“ACIP serves as Americans’ watchdog for vaccine safety and transparency,” Secretary Kennedy said. “Dr. Urato and Dr. Biss bring the scientific credentials, clinical experience, and integrity this committee requires.”
“President Trump directed us to examine how other developed nations protect their children and to take action if they are doing better,” Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced. “After an exhaustive review of the evidence, we are aligning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with international consensus while strengthening transparency and informed consent. This decision protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health.”
The scientific assessment compared U.S. childhood immunization recommendations with those of peer nations, analyzed vaccine uptake and public trust, evaluated clinical and epidemiological evidence and knowledge gaps, examined vaccine mandates, and identified next steps.
Knowing the recent controversies behind America’s vaccination history, President Donald Trump selected RFK, Jr. to be the ideal leader to tackle such issues.
While the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement has garnered high praise from the majority of citizens, the controversies regarding vaccinations has a long history.
1800s
In England, the Vaccination Act of 1853 mandated smallpox vaccinations for all infants under three months. It levied fines and imposed prison terms against parents who refused.
It spurred anti-vax sentiment throughout the country: Violent riots broke out in Ipswich, Henley and Mitford. In London, the Anti-Vaccination League was formed.
After an 1867 law expanded mandatory vaccination to all children under 14, there was even more dissent. John Gibbs and his brothers Richard and George founded the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League that same year.
A journal, the Vaccination Inquirer, was started in 1879 by the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.
This time, the anti-vaxxers got their way. An 1898 act in Parliament removed cumulative penalties. It introduced a “conscious clause” that allowed parents to opt out of vaccinating their children.
Throughout the 19th century, working class British parents continued to complain about mandatory vaccinations. They believed it violated their right to make choices for their own family.
In 1869, the Leicester Anti-vaccination League was formed. It was very successful in spreading skepticism. As a result, the number of unvaccinated children in the city grew from seven in 1874. A decade later, this number reached almost 2,000.
In 1881, the MP for Leicester, P. A. Taylor, wrote an open letter titled Current Fallacies about Vaccination, and 200,000 copies were circulated.
1900s
In America, after Swedish immigrant Henning Jacobson was arrested for defying Massachusetts’ mandatory vaccination laws, his case went before the Supreme Court.
In a landmark 1905 ruling, the justices ruled against Jacobson—a Lutheran pastor. They acknowledged proof that vaccinations provided herd immunization. The justices also held that states had the right to impose mandatory vaccinations for the greater good of the community.
Forcible vaccinations were outlawed to balance the ruling. However, resistance continued. In 1928, an armed mob of anti-vaxxers drove a group of visiting health officers out of Georgetown, Delaware.
In 1926 seven-year-old Belema Siegfried was turned away from school. The reason? Her parents had refused to submit paperwork proving that she had been vaccinated. Several months after Belema was turned away from school, her father, a Brooklyn chiropractor named Louis Siegfried, was arrested.
Siegfried’s arrest may have been calculated; just six months before his arrest, he had launched a new journal, The Quest (Against Vaccination and Cruel Vivisection). Like many of his fellow chiropractors, Siegfried advocated a non-interventionist approach to health, seeing vaccination as an “inherent poison” which was introduced into a healthy body.
Lora Little was one of the most prominent leaders of the early 20th century anti-vaxxer movement. She was a mother who blamed the death of her only son on the smallpox vaccine.
Hospital records indicate Kenneth Little died of diptheria more than six months after his vaccination. However, Little insisted “the artificial pollution of [his] blood” had fatally weakened her son’s system.
Little claimed the American medical establishment was a tool of the U.S. government and that compulsory vaccinations set a dangerous precedent for the state to control people’s bodies.
In 1898, she founded The Liberator, a monthly magazine that praised healthy diets and active lifestyles and condemned vaccines. Her 1906 book, Crimes of the Cowpox Ring: Some Moving Pictures Thrown on the Dead Wall of Official Silence, painted vaccine manufacturers as powerful and greedy and cataloged the stories of hundreds of American children she believed to be vaccine-injured.
In 1916, while speaking with servicemen in North Dakota, Little told them to resist the vaccinations they were required to receive. As a result, she was arrested for inciting mutiny under the Espionage Act.
Efforts during WWII led to the creation of new vaccines. However, anti-vax sentiment still flared up throughout the 20th century.
In the 1970s, the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine was blamed for neurological conditions in some British children. Numerous studies indicated that no close association with their brain disease was possible.
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I was not aware that parental resistance to vaccines for children dated back to the very first one. Eye-opening report.
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