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Supporting
Documents
Statement of
the National Vaccine Information Center - Barbara Loe
Fisher, Co-founder & President
"The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Failed
Experiment in Tort Reform?"
Summary
from National Vaccine Advisory Committee's
unanimous June 2 vote on the need for vaccine and
autism-vaccine research.
National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) -
Recommendations on the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Immunization Safety Office Draft 5-Year
Scientific Agenda
Legislation Introduced to Require First Comparative
Study of Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Populations
Newsweek -
The Confidence Gap - Why the Obama administration needs
to restore public faith in the safety of childhood
vaccines.
- Dr. Louis Cooper,
former head of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
states
"...there's been
grossly insufficient investment in research on the
safety of immunization."
UPI Investigates: The vaccine
conflict - Financial conflicts of interest within
CDC with regard to monitoring vaccine safety
Emails obtained through FOIA - CDC officials
discussing the safety of mercury-containing vaccines
NIMH Director and IACC Chair Thomas Insel discusses
conflicts of vaccine safety research at NIH.
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transcript
Institute of Medicine Transcript - Closed Meeting
1.12.01
Dr. Marie McCormick, chair of the Immunization Review
Committee noting that the CDC, which had funded the $2
million study, “wants us to declare, well, these things
are pretty safe….” Before her committee reviewed a
single study or a shred of data she expressed her
confidence that, “we are not ever going to come down
that [autism] is a true side effect of [vaccine
exposure.”
Dr. Kathleen Stratton, a member of IOM staff and study
director of the Immunization Safety Review Committee,
reiterated McCormick’s message, “We said this before you
got here, and I think we said this yesterday, the point
of no return, the line we will not cross in public
policy is to pull the vaccine, change the schedule … We
wouldn’t say compensate, we wouldn’t say pull the
vaccine, we wouldn’t say stop the program.”
The
2004 report on vaccine safety by the Institute of
Medicine states, "Absent biomarkers, well defined
risk factors, or large effect sizes, the committee
cannot rule out, based on the epidemiological evidence,
the possibility that vaccines contribute to autism in
some small subset or very unusual circumstances."
The Omnibus Autism Proceeding: "There is No
Vaccine-Autism Link. Case Closed." Right? Wrong.
Tobacco Science and the Thimerosal Scandal by Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Victim Friendly National Childhood Vaccine Injury
Compensation Act: You've Got to Be Kidding!
Victims increasingly view U.S. compensation program as
adversarial and tightfisted
Biohazard potential for live viral vaccines containing
naked or free nucleic acids from contaminating
(adventitious) viruses.
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