Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics over alleged financial conflicts of interest in vaccine promotion.
The AAP broke from the CDC’s vaccine schedule for the first time and released its own schedule after HHS Secretary RFK Jr. revised the federal recommendations.
Paxton’s probe targets a “multi-level, multi-industry scheme” pressuring doctors to fully vaccinate children regardless of medical necessity.
Children’s Health Defense filed a racketeering lawsuit against the AAP, accusing the group of false safety claims while collecting funding from vaccine makers.
The investigation questions whether medical guidance is rooted in science or in who stands to profit from it.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics, issuing a civil investigative demand over concerns that the nation’s largest pediatricians’ group may be promoting childhood vaccines to protect its own finances rather than kids’ health. The probe, announced August 5, builds on Paxton’s broader inquiry into pediatric providers, insurers and vaccine makers, and comes as the AAP faces criticism for breaking with the CDC’s revised vaccine schedule for the first time in the organization’s history.
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