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US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.”

The entirety of the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the vaccine schedule and required coverage of immunizations, will be retired and replaced with new members, Kennedy announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The HHS secretary has authority to appoint and dismiss ACIP members, who typically serve four-year cycles. But removing the entire panel prematurely is unprecedented. . .

>US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.” >The entirety of the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the vaccine schedule and required coverage of immunizations, will be retired and replaced with new members, Kennedy announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The HHS secretary has authority to appoint and dismiss ACIP members, who typically serve four-year cycles. But removing the entire panel prematurely is unprecedented. . . [Archive](https://archive.today/gYLJp)

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I didn't realize Ask Jeeves was still around, I'll have to remember that!

I just discovered Jeeves a couple of months ago when I upgraded my kindle and was using Brave browsrer ... started exploring the AI assist tools for the first time.

Was Jeeves the annoying "helpful paperclip guy" from the old days of Microsoft Windows say 20 years ago? If so, they seem to have found a much better use for him.

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Nah, the windows thing was Clippy

https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Clippy.jpg.jpg

From what I remember, Ask Jeeves has been around since at least the 90's. They had a butler mascot that was eventually removed and it morphed into ask.com. Nice to see it's still around, still miss the butler.

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100727-AskJeevesButler-hmed-118a.jpg

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In the '90s I was working my ass off on a DEC VAX mainframe and sparc workstations at work, assembled my first personal x86 PC about 1995. Dabbled with windows95 but quickly upgraded to Windows NT - I don't recall any paperclip helpers on NT, and I preferred that. Never used Ask.com. I vaguely remember a butler mascot character from that era, clearly remember the incredibly annoying paperclip guy. Lol!

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I guess they got rid of Clippy in 2007.

I didn't get a computer until probably the early 2000s. Was doing okay with it, even installed a dvd/cd player/burner drive in the tower.

After two computers biting the dust, I gave up and relegated my increasingly technologically-challenged self to a dumb tablet! 😄