Childhood vaccines have been thoroughly tested for safety, right? Wrong…

Aaron Siri does an excellent job researching this issue in his book, Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines. Most reasonable scientists would agree the best way to assess the safety for any medical product is a study comparing it with a true placebo, something totally inert. In Chapter 10 of his book, Mr. Siri meticulously goes through every childhood vaccine and identifies what specifically was used as the control in each study.

This first table summarizes the infant vaccines, those administered up to 6 months of age. Shockingly, many products did not even bother to have a control group at all. Those that did used an older vaccine as the control group – hardly an inert, true placebo. Now, if the older vaccine was properly tested originally with a true placebo, one could accept its use as a control. Mr. Siri tracked down every one. In every case where an older vaccine was used as a control, that original product was also tested against either an older vaccine or no control at all! Mr. Siri appropriately coined this deception a “pyramid scheme of safety.” The book edited by Mary Holland made the scheme its title, Turtles All The Way Down.

These are the vaccines administered in between 6 months through 18 months of age. Here we had more examples of old vaccines as controls or no controls at all. But we also had examples of adjuvants and other immunologically active material being used as controls while falsely being labelled “placebos.” So we have the same problem – no true placebo controls.

And these are administered between 18 months and 18 years of age. Same problem. No true placebo controls.

It is a simple statement of fact that no childhood vaccine has ever been tested for safety against a true placebo.

And yet, they use these products on our youngest when they are the most immunologically vulnerable. Not only is this unethical, it’s criminal, don’t you think?