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How the Vaccine Industry is plotting to bypass ACIP and keep pushing endless vaccines on Americans

By ljdevon // 2025-06-25

The vaccine industry is scrambling to protect its lucrative grip on American medicine, now that their enforcement arm—the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—is being dismantled under new leadership. Facing the collapse of their vaccine mandates and automatic funding streams, pharmaceutical giants and their allies are conspiring to create a shadow system that bypasses government oversight entirely, according to a bombshell report from The Washington Post. With millions at stake, they’re moving fast to lock in recommendations that keep Americans dependent on an endless barrage of shots—no matter the cost to freedom, transparency, or public health. Key points:

• A secretive group of vaccine manufacturers, medical associations, and industry-backed insiders is designing a private vaccine recommendation system to replace ACIP after its members were ousted for conflicts of interest.
• ACIP’s recommendations dictate insurance coverage, school mandates, and federal funding—making it the linchpin of Big Pharma’s vaccine empire. If sidelined, the industry loses its coercive power.
• Groups like the AAP and ACOG—already funded by Merck, Pfizer, and Sanofi—are positioned to push Pharma-friendly guidelines, despite zero independent review.
• Former ACIP members with deep ties to Merck and other companies are openly urging doctors to ignore new ACIP guidance, risking legal noncompliance for physicians who follow them.

The ACIP takedown and Big Pharma’s desperate counterstrike

For decades, the ACIP operated as a rubber stamp for vaccine manufacturers, with members frequently caught accepting consulting fees from Merck, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline while voting to recommend their products. Its recommendations became binding policy, forcing schools to mandate shots, insurers to cover them, and pharmacies to administer them. But when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disbanded the committee last month—citing glaring conflicts of interest—Big Pharma’s grip on the system began to unravel. Now, an “extraordinary” coalition of industry players is racing to create what James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., calls a “corporation-backed, corporation-friendly committee” to replace ACIP. Internal discussions, leaked to The Post, reveal plans to let medical associations—already swimming in Pharma cash—take over vaccine recommendations, while states and pharmacies cut deals directly with manufacturers. Their goal is to preserve vaccine mandates for schools and protect automatic funding even if ACIP stops green-lighting every shot on the schedule. Helen Chu, a recently ousted ACIP member who took money from Merck, exemplifies the corruption at play. In MedPage Today, she urged physicians to “turn away” from ACIP’s guidelines—a stunning admission that the old guard would rather sabotage oversight than lose their Pharma paymasters. Merck, her former benefactor, produces Gardasil, MMR, and chickenpox vaccines—all previously mandated under ACIP’s recommendations.

The “Vaccine Integrity Project”: A front for corporate interests

The shadow group is being coordinated through the University of Minnesota’s Vaccine Integrity Project, funded by billionaire Christy Walton’s iAlumbra nonprofit. Co-chaired by former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and ex-Institute of Medicine president Harvey Fineberg, the project claims to “safeguard” vaccine policy—but critics see it as a thinly veiled effort to protect Pharma profits. Participating groups like the AAP and ACOG have taken millions from Merck and Pfizer while endorsing their products without independent testing. Worse, ACOG pocketed $11 million from the CDC to aggressively push COVID-19 shots on pregnant women—an unproven gamble that was later walked back under Kennedy’s leadership. HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon blasted the scheme, calling it “a self-appointed echo chamber masquerading as oversight.” Yet with states and insurers historically tied to ACIP’s approvals, the industry knows confusion itself could keep their mandates in place.

Fight for medical freedom has never been more critical

If Pharma succeeds, Americans will face two competing vaccine recommendation systems: one accountable to a panel of vaccine skeptics, the other controlled by corporate interests. The fallout could mean:

• Continued school mandates for shots ACIP no longer approves. It's unclear whether state legislatures will ditch new ACIP recommendations and go with the heavy vaccine recommendations (92+) pushed by Pharma groups. The issue could eventually be framed as a "states rights issue." However, this issue should ultimately be left up to the parents of the child, as it is their children who are the ones being poisoned and sacrificed for the "greater good."
• Doctors will be pressured and indoctrinated to follow Pharma-funded guidelines, regardless of new ACIP recommendation. If so, doctors could risk federal noncompliance, pushing vaccines that have high risk and little benefit. The silver lining: this would weaken ACIP and the CDC's power altogether, and remove centralized control over individual healthcare decisions. This would give more power to patients as they pressure their doctors to take a more critical look at vaccines.
• A surge in state-by-state disparities could occur, with some politicians protecting Pharma monopolies and pushing every shot on kids, and other states following a more nuanced approach to vaccines, protecting kids from useless vaccine risks. This could ultimately lead to new legislation, strengthening vaccine exemptions for parents, raising awareness about existing vaccine exemptions, and allowing children to live unharmed by vaccines and the coercion that seeks to submit parents to an authoritarian medical police state.

The stakes are clear: without ACIP’s enforcement powers, the vaccine industry collapses. And with Kennedy’s new committee set to vote this week on RSV, flu, and COVID shots, Pharma’s desperation is showing. Vaccine industry insiders know that these shots are a fraud and have led to mass iatrogenic error, which is why they are mobilizing against their own governing body - ACIP - which they have controlled for decades. For decades, they bullied families into submission. Now, their house of cards is falling—and they’re scrambling to rebuild it in secret. Will the new ACIP deliver on their promise to restore scientific integrity, or will the vaccine industry continue to have their way, whether their influence is inside or outside of official government recommendations? The answers lies in parents getting educated about the topic, taking up their God-given rights, and making their own decisions, against all forms of coercion, deceptive recommendation, and unlawful mandate. Sources include: ChildrensHealthDefense.org WashingtonPost.com Substack.com NaturalNews.com

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