GOVERNMENTS claim childhood vaccines do not cause autism or disability and that children’s jabs are thoroughly tested before approval. A series of lawsuits and freedom of information requests in the US show that those claims are untrue.
Shockingly, only one of 14 childhood vaccines has been through a gold standard double-blind placebo-controlled trial; the others had no control group and no placebo. Only the HPV trial provided long-term safety data. Other vaccines in the schedule were approved after as little as three days follow-up.
The childhood vaccine schedule also remains untested for cumulative effects and to see whether it causes autism, although health authorities consistently claim studies show vaccines do not cause the devastating neurological disorder that affects more than 1 in 100 in the UK and 1 in 31 American children.
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine has commonly been associated with autism by parents, an association dismissed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which monitors public health in the US, and the British government.
Other popular vaccines, such as the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough) (DTaP) and the tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap – the booster given to older children) have never been checked. This is despite up to 95 per cent of children receiving it.
The CDC used to claim on their website that vaccines do not cause autism but since Robert F Kennedy Jr took over as head of the Department for Health and Human Services (HHS), that statement has changed.
It now says: ‘The claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.’
The CDC had told vaccine injury lawyer Aaron Siri, the author of Vaccines, Amen, that it had 20 studies which proved vaccines do not cause the regressive neurological disorder which usually develops when children are aged 18 months to two years. Siri challenged the CDC to produce them and was met with silence so in March 2020, on behalf of the Institute for Autism Science and the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), he issued the CDC with a lawsuit.
Siri said: ‘Days before the initial hearing we got a list of 20 studies from them. We wanted studies for vaccines given in the first 20 months of life. They provided 16 studies and four reviews, 18 of which were about the MMR or thimerosal, (a mercury-based preservative removed from most vaccines between 1999 and 2001) an ingredient that is not in any of these products.
‘One study relating to the pertussis vaccine found an association with autism, but they threw it out because there was no unvaccinated control group.’
Siri says the clinical trials for childhood vaccinations are wholly inadequate, using no placebo as manufacturers claim it is unethical to leave children unvaccinated when there is a product to protect them. Instead of saline, they commonly use an older version of the vaccine or an adjuvant as a placebo.
The table below shows Pfizer’s top four drugs for adults, the length of time they were tested and whether a placebo was used. For adults, the minimum safety review period was two years and the maximum seven-and-a-quarter years. For children the minimum was three days and the maximum 28 days.
The vaccines above are typically administered to infants under six months of age with hepatitis-B given to newborns.
Babies in the inactivated polio (IPV) and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib – protects against bacterial infections such as meningitis and pneumonia) vaccine trials were followed for only three days, meaning any long-term adverse effects could be identified only after the vaccines were introduced to the wider population. A recent example of a serious adverse event being picked up post-marketing is myocarditis in young people associated with covid-19 vaccines.
One of two hepatitis B vaccines, given to newborns, had a trial with just 147 infants and children to age ten, who were monitored for only five days after each dose. (Here is a full breakdown for the whole schedule.)
Siri said he first stared at the numbers in disbelief: ‘I thought there’s no way this can be it. There’s no way they could license this product to be given to millions of babies based on no control group, not monitoring safety long enough, and not enough kids in the trial. It’s useless.’
He sent a Freedom of Information request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who regulate drugs, to request the clinical trial reports and discovered it was true: the babies had been monitored for just five days. He said: ‘Safety really is an afterthought when it comes to these things.’
There has been a dramatic rise in childhood chronic illness in the US since the mid-80s with no single cause identified but thought to be environmental.
In 1986, 10 per cent of children were diagnosed with an illness that lasted three months or longer. Now, that figure is a staggering 40 per cent.
What happened in 1986? President Ronald Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) that prevented vaccine manufacturers from being sued for injury. This followed a surge of lawsuits relating to the pertussis vaccine, which could have resulted in billions of dollars in compensation. Instead of making vaccines safer, many companies refused to make them at all and left the market. Fearful of epidemics, the Act was a way of enticing them back.
Once safe from prosecution, however, Big Pharma ramped up childhood vaccine production. The schedule increased from five combination shots in 1986 to 32 combination shots today.
Siri’s book is titled Vaccines, Amen because of the religious fervour used to protect them. Every doctor who has tried to question their value has had their career destroyed. (See the Dr Andrew Wakefield story here.)
Even children’s charities bow down at the vaccine altar. When Siri contacted UNICEF about a disturbing study into the DTP vaccine introduced into the West African country Guinea-Bissau that caused excess mortality, they failed to act.
The study found that children who had received the DTP were protected against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, but were ten times more likely to die of other causes than the unvaccinated.
Last month, Siri presented this evidence to a packed house at the John F Kennedy Centre in Washington DC. He has been deposing vaccine czars, issuing freedom of information requests, subpoenaing doctors, and suing health authorities in the US over their vaccine claims for over a decade.
In 2018, he famously deposed Professor Stanley Plotkin, the ‘grandfather of vaccination’ who developed the rubella jab (German measles), worked for decades in vaccine research and wrote Plotkin’s Vaccines, a standard vaccinology textbook.
Under oath, Plotkin confessed he did not know whether the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough) (DTaP) or tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap – the booster given to older children) vaccines caused autism. And although he was principal investigator in the hepatitis B trials, he was surprised that there was only a five-day follow-up and confessed it was not long enough to pick up rare serious adverse events.
Siri has had a recent success. In 1986, a vaccine safety task force was established to make sure Big Pharma did not cut corners but by 1990, it was inactive. Thanks to Robert F Kennedy Jr and Siri, that has now been reestablished. That, coupled with MAHA’s desire to find out why American children are so sick, might finally provide some genuine answers.
