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Anti-vaccine activist presents data to Kennedy's reshaped CDC advisory panel

The meeting included a discussion of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and longtime target of the anti-vaccine world. It was removed from nearly all U.S. vaccines in 2001.

by NBC News | June 26, 2025
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Dr. David Higgins, a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, decried the document’s removal. “Decades of evidence were ignored or even hidden,” said Higgins, who wasn’t a part of the meeting. “That’s not being transparent. That’s not scientific integrity.”