Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s top vaccine adviser has compared vaccines to hot dogs while challenging the former heads of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to a scientific debate.

Three months after the Health Secretary fired all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee and installed his own researchers and doctors in their place, the group met on Thursday and voted to recommend against a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella for young children.

But in pointed remarks ahead of their two-day meeting, Martin Kulldorff, a vaccine skeptic who now chairs the group, hit out at critics he said were falsely claiming they were made up of “unscientific and dangerous anti-vaxxers.”

Rather, he said, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was made up of s

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