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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner

RFK Jr’s pick to review Covid vaccines authored misleading research, experts say

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Dr Retsef Levi at the first meeting of the CDC's advisory committee on immunization practices in Atlanta, Georgia, on 25 June 2025. Photograph: Ben Hendren/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research on the topic, according to more than a dozen scientists and public health experts.

Retsef Levi, an operations management professor, is a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP), which is meeting later this month and – many experts fear – could seek to roll back recommendations on who should receive Covid-19 vaccines.

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