12/06/2025
President Trump’s call for a “vaccine schedule review” isn’t transparency, it’s political control dressed up as science at the expense of children’s lives.
Let’s be clear: the childhood vaccine schedule is already reviewed constantly by independent scientists, epidemiologists, and regulators. Every vaccine on it has years—often decades—of real-world data behind it. Nothing about this process was broken. Nothing about it needed a political intervention.
So why do this?
Because creating a “review” suggests a problem where none exists. It implies the schedule is excessive, unsafe, or unscientific, which is a narrative pushed for years by activists who reject the overwhelming medical consensus on vaccine safety.
When you put political appointees in charge of evaluating decades of evidence, you’re not improving science. You’re overriding it.
This move does three dangerous things:
1️⃣ It replaces experts with ideologues.
The people now steering this review include individuals who have built careers on spreading vaccine disinformation. That’s not oversight. It’s sabotage.
2️⃣ It destabilizes a schedule responsible for eliminating or controlling polio, measles, Hib epiglottitis, congenital rubella, pneumococcal meningitis, and childhood liver cancer from hepatitis B.
These weren’t theoretical wins, they saved millions of children!
3️⃣ It signals that long-standing, evidence-based recommendations can be undone by political whim rather than scientific discovery.
That’s how preventable diseases return.
This isn’t about transparency. Or safety. Or “common sense.”
It’s about dismantling trust in vaccines by pretending the most rigorously studied medical interventions on Earth suddenly need a political audit.
Children cannot advocate for themselves. Parents rely on honest science, not manufactured doubt.
We should never gamble with the health of an entire generation to score political points.
