Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, kills about 350,000 people annually — but for the last two decades, there’s been a robust, cheap and simple way of preventing much of it: the HPV vaccine. For nearly two decades the shot has shown that girls who are vaccinated under the age of 16 are 80 percent less likely to develop cervical cancer. Yet, under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, a vaccine advisory committee, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), recently announced plans to conduct a “comprehensive review” of the vaccine’s efficacy, effectiveness and safety. Specifically, it will discuss the “wording of the age for routine HPV vaccination,” vaccination schedule, and draft policy recommendations. Kennedy, who founded an anti-vaccine non-profit, Children’s Health Defense, has personally attacked the HPV vaccine. In 2021, Kennedy called the Gardasil vaccine “dangerous and defective,” falsely saying that it increases the risk of cervical cancer. Kennedy once earned referral fees from Wisner Baum, a lawfirm known for its litigation against vaccine companies, …