Breaking: Kennedy brings the “Aluminum Family” back as an “Aluminum Working Group”
NEW YORK - Secretary Kennedy brought back members of the “aluminum family” as an “aluminum working group“ which is being led by Lyn Redwood, according to a member of the group who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The group consists of Christopher Exley (UK) and Christopher Shaw (Canada), the founders of the aluminum toxicity field of research; Guillemette Crepeaux, an aluminum researcher in Paris, and Nikolai Petrovsky, an Australian vaccine developer and Founder of Vaxine, a biotechnology company. Another member is William "Reyn" Archer III, MD, a former Texas Health commissioner and a vaccine critic.
The group has been meeting weekly and had four meetings so far, with no tangible decisions made yet, according to the source. On Tuesday, Kennedy and Jay Bhattacharya joined the meeting. Kennedy talked about accelerating aluminum research. Bhattacharya offered NIH funding via the R01 mechanism.
This effort is separate from the VSD analysis David Geier is conducting at HHS. He is not a member of the group.
The aluminum working group is not only focused on autism, and is therefore separate from the 50-million dollar autism data science initiative, for which grant winners were recently announced.
The ongoing interest in aluminum is consistent with Trump’s remark, “ We want no aluminum in the vaccine,” at the September 22 autism press conference where the focus was on Tylenol.
And yesterday the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) announced several new priority topics, including aluminum.
Our previous reporting described long-standing relationships between Exley, Shaw and Kennedy. Guillemette Crepeaux is a mentee of Romaine Gherardi, a French neuropathologist who described a syndrome caused by aluminum adjuvants known as MMF, macrophagic myofasciitis. He defined it based on a constellation of nonspecific symptoms developing years after receiving an aluminum-containing vaccine, along with finding aluminum-laiden macrophages at the site of the prior vaccine injection. (He never biopsied patients without symptoms, leaving a likely possibility that residual aluminum is a common and unrelated finding.)
Exley and Shaw both lost their academic positions as a result of their controversial research.
Lyn Redwood is a co-founder of SafeMinds and was first to propose the connection between a vaccine ingredient - mercury - and autism. Kennedy appointed her to an HHS role in June.
