Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s new CDC head Erica Schwartz greenlights hepatitis B vaccine study critics call “unethical and designed to cast doubts on its safety” Rolling Stone | October 12, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/12/viewpoint-rfk-jr-s-new-cdc-head-erica-schwartz-greenlights-hepatitis-b-vaccine-study-critics-call-unethical-and-designed-to-cast-doubts-on-its-safety/ The CDC is reopening its wallet for a hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau shelved earlier this year amid an ethics uproar. As Katherine Eban for the Rolling Stone reports, a staffer in the director’s office told the agency’s budget office in late September to set aside $1.6 million for the study, pulled from global health security funds. The move comes two months after Dr. Erica Schwartz was confirmed as CDC director, though how involved she was remains unclear.