Two weeks ago, roughly, I reported here at PJ Media that Mina Zadeh, Executive Secretary for the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), testified before the committee that she had invited notorious vaccine industry shill Paul Offit to offer his talking points at the December 5 meeting, in which it considered revising the agency’s recommendation that one-day-old babies receive a vaccine for a disease, hepatitis B, that spreads almost exclusively by intravenous drug use and unprotected sex.
Paul Offit, Peter Hotez ("experts") and the AAP refused to turn up to the ACIP meeting today (ACIP Day 2). Even strongly pro vaccine ACIP member Cody Meissner called out the AAP, saying the AAP is engaged in politics instead of engaging in the scientific debate. pic.twitter.com/vQskkpsbsO
— Humanspective (@Humanspective) December 6, 2025
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Instead of appearing to defend his position in favor of hepatitis B vaccines for newborns, Offit opted for a softball CNN daytime interview (which probably twelve people saw) in which he claimed that ACIP Executive Secretary Mina Zadeh was lying and that he had not been invited to the hearing as she claimed.
One can only hope that the American public ignores the poorly thought out recommendations on the hepatitis B birth dose at today's ACIP meeting. Here are my thoughts on a CNN clip pic.twitter.com/IKlDy7mB7S
— Paul Offit (@DrPaulOffit) December 5, 2025
Now, thanks to crack reporting from RFK Jr.’s former organization, Children’s Health Defense, we know that Offit did, in fact, contrary to what he claimed on CNN, receive numerous invitations to the hearing sent to numerous official email addresses of his, as well as a request sent through his employer’s, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, official booking portal, which confirmed receipt of the request.
Via Children's Health Defense (emphasis added):
When Dr. Paul Offit appeared on CNN on Dec. 5 to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) contentious hepatitis B meeting, he spoke with the certainty that has made him one of legacy media’s go-to commentators on vaccines.
Offit told viewers he had not been invited to speak at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting that was unfolding in Atlanta that very day.
That claim was false…
Offit began by correcting the anchor’s introduction. She noted that he had been invited to present at ACIP and had declined.
He promptly replied: “I actually wasn’t invited to present at today’s meeting. I was invited back in October to come speak about vaccines to this group.”
The host sought clarity: “So just to be clear, you were invited back in October to speak, and you declined that.”
Offit replied: “It was a vague recommendation to come speak to us … The way that it was framed today that I was asked to come speak today about this subject, that’s not true.”
But emails obtained exclusively by MD Reports tell a different story.
On Oct. 23, a CDC official emailed Offit with the subject line “Speaker Invitation – ACIP meeting.”
The message was explicit: “I am reaching out to invite you as a speaker to an upcoming ACIP meeting and would appreciate the opportunity to connect.”
When that email bounced, the CDC re-sent it to Offit’s University of Pennsylvania address — the one his own institution had confirmed as correct. A CDC staffer also phoned him and left a voicemail.
Offit did not respond.
The CDC then emailed him at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia address as well. And to eliminate any doubt, they also submitted a speaker-request form through the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia booking portal. The system automatically confirmed receipt.
The point isn’t to lament that we missed out on Paul Offit’s brilliant insights; we know for sure that he would have parroted the same pharmaceutical propaganda at the ACIP hearing, had he shown up, that he and his comrades have on CNN and elsewhere for decades.
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Also, not the point is that someone with as ugly a personal history as Offit would brazenly lie — even though he must have known the proof of his lie was easily accessible to anyone who wanted to look; these people lie as they breathe.
The illustrative aspect of this story is that, again, these people are terrified to face their critics in an open forum because they know they’ll lose, and lose badly.
It’s a microcosm of the reality of The Science™, which is that a real, honest, open debate about the merits of the current CDC vaccine schedule — which requires more shots for children than any other in the world — has never been allowed to happen.
Its proponents, unable to legitimately defend their position and terrified of their pseudoscience being exposed by real experts with the expertise to expose them on such a large stage as an ACIP meeting, are consigned to lying on corporate media about not receiving invitations that they definitely received.
And, day by day, year by year, their credibility for anyone with eyes to see diminishes that much further.
