RFK Jr.’s attorney. blasts ‘distorting’ press report as misrepresentation of HHS selectmen’s views on vaccines

Counsel for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticizes a New York Times report last week that Trump’s HHS secretary nominee wanted to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the polio vaccine.

“Contrary to sensational media reports that the request was to make sure there were no polio vaccines, the scope of the request was very narrow,” said Aaron Siri, a close adviser to RFK Jr. and partner at Siri & Glimstad LLP, told Fox News. Digital. “It simply asked the FDA to require appropriate testing for pediatric licensure of the polio vaccine.”

The New York Times reported on Friday that Siri is “fighting a war” against all vaccines, but Siri said the report “falsified that the request wants to eliminate” the polio vaccine, “as if there is only one, and that our client wants to eliminate”. leave Americans with no choice to be vaccinated against polio.”

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“Basically, the petition wanted to ensure the safety of one of the six approved polio vaccines that we give three times before their first birthday,” he said.

The report came just days before RFK Jr. headed to Capitol Hill this week to meet with senators, seeking support for his HHS confirmation.

The petition, which was filed in 2022 on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) and not as an individual action by Siri, urged the FDA to temporarily suspend the polio vaccine IPOL for infants and children. ICAN’s request stems from concerns that IPOL, which was approved by Sanofi in 1990, was approved based on tests on children, according to the FDA, that evaluated safety only three days after the injection.

This is not the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk or Albert Sabin that most people know, Siri added. Instead, it is a product that uses a different technology, where the polio virus is grown in monkey kidney cells that have been genetically modified to multiply indefinitely, similar to cancer cells. Traces of these cells are present in each dose of the vaccine.

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Nurse Lydia Fulton prepares to administer the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and the vaccine used to help prevent diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and polio at Children’s Care Clinic in Minneapolis, MN, Friday the 28th in April. , 2017. (Courtney Perry/The Washington Post)

Another petition filed on behalf of ICAN in 2021 mentions 13 childhood vaccines containing aluminum additives. According to the complaint, a peer-reviewed study found discrepancies between the levels of aluminum in these vaccines and the amounts listed on their FDA-approved labels. The petition calls on the FDA to verify and publicly release documents proving the accuracy of the aluminum content or halt distribution until it is resolved — an issue critics say should not be controversial for products that are injected into children.

“Currently, political labeling (pro-vaccine, anti-vaccine) is not enough to encompass the realities of medical ethics, regulatory adoption, and the influence of business capital on health policy,” said Siri. “We should be able to raise the right questions about vaccine safety, efficacy and policy without fear that any deviation from the ‘safe and effective’ mantra will be smeared with epithets and outrage.”

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US Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a hearing on youth vaping on Nov. 22. 2019 in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In the days since the media reported on Siri’s request, both Trump and RFK Jr. they said they supported a polio vaccine, without specifying which one. RFK Jr. he expressed his skepticism about some vaccines, while supporting the use of others, in debates during his 2024 presidential campaign as part of his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) slogan.

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“Mr. Kennedy believes that the Polio vaccine should be available to the public and thoroughly researched,” said Katie Miller, Kennedy’s spokeswoman for the transition, in response.

Meanwhile, Trump said “everything has to be looked at,” adding that he is “a big believer in the polio vaccine,” during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago Monday morning.

Fox News Digital reached out to The New York Times for comment but did not immediately receive a response.