Let me be clear about something. When career CDC scientists are presenting at ACIP, their data are solid.

When guest presenters or members of ACIP in its current form are speaking, you should view it with extreme skepticism.

Although he has no knowledge, training or experience in public health, he also alleged that people should listen to him because he's a father of six.

This is who is in charge of “vaccine safety”.

Slotkin: Do you believe there is such a thing as an illegal order? Something the president could ask you to do that violates the constitution?

Hegseth: Anyone of any party could give an illegal order.

Slotkin: Will you stand in the breach if Trump does?

Hegseth: I reject the premise

Kaine: You've denied showing up to work drunk but you would agree that of true that would be disqualifying for Secretary of Defense?

Hegseth: Those are false anonymous claims...

Kaine: One your colleagues said you got drunk and chanted "KILL ALL MUSLIMS...."

Not just a failure of ethics, it’s an existential collapse of institutional legitimacy. Legal systems exist to uphold justice, media exists to inform truthfully, and academia exists to pursue and disseminate knowledge. Capitulating to authoritarian payfor favor demands destroys all three.

Among the provisions are ones agreeing to the Trump administration's definition of sex as "biological sex" and agreeing "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries ... on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately."