Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a letter Monday that he sent a medical journal last week, seeking the reasons it removed a study that his vaccine advisory panel cited to change the childhood immunization schedule.

The controversial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices overhauled the childhood vaccine schedule earlier this year, citing a loss of trust in vaccines.

Kennedy’s former personal lawyer, Aaron Siri, cited a 2021 study titled “Vaccines and sudden infant death: An analysis of the VAERS database 1990–2019 and review of the medical literature,” in a speech he gave to the committee, which has since been removed from the Toxicology Reports journal.

“As you may know, research integrity and academic freedom have been important issues to me for decades in my private career and continue to be important to me in government service,” Kennedy wrote to Toxicology Reports Editor-in-Chief Lawrence Lash. “Retraction and even removal of seriously flawed publications is appropriate in certain cases. However, it should be accompanied by a transparent and full explanation of why such an action was carried out.”

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