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The CDC's actual response to ICAN's lawsuit listed 20 peer reviewed studies, including 13 specifically on thimerosal, not zero. Fact checkers who reviewed the court filing found ICAN's 'no studies' framing was inaccurate, since thimerosal research existed and at least one study directly covered the specific childhood vaccines ICAN had asked about. Health authorities like the CDC and WHO have decades of published thimerosal safety research on record.
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The allegation is real, the finding is not. Kenya's Catholic bishops said in 2014 that tetanus vaccine vials contained beta hCG. A joint Ministry of Health and Church commission then tested 59 vials: 56 came back negative, and the three positives were vials that had already been opened and handled. WHO and UNICEF said the claim was not backed by evidence, and the labs used pregnancy tests not designed for vaccine samples.
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The phrase turns up in the case, but not as a finding about how dangerous vaccines are. In Bruesewitz v. Wyeth the Supreme Court held that the 1986 vaccine act blocks design-defect suits against manufacturers. "Unavoidably unsafe" is old product liability language, from the Restatement of Torts, for products that carry some irreducible risk even when made correctly. It is a legal category, not a safety rating.
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There is at least one, and it was CDC work. DeStefano and colleagues published a study in the Journal of Pediatrics in 2013 comparing 256 children with autism against 752 controls, looking at how much immune stimulation each had received from vaccines between three months and two years old. They found no link, either to total antigens by age two or to the most received in a single day.
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Not licensed against a placebo is doing a lot of work here. Plenty of routine childhood vaccines were tested against inert placebos, including rotavirus and the original polio vaccine. Where they were not, the comparison group got an existing vaccine instead, because withholding protection from children in a trial for a disease we can already prevent runs into an ethics wall.
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He said something close to this, and the wording matters. Thompson issued a statement through his lawyer in August 2014 saying he and his co-authors left out a finding about African American boys vaccinated before 36 months. The destroying part comes from a taped call with Brian Hooker, read into the congressional record, describing co-authors putting hard copies in a bin. The underlying dataset was kept, and Thompson has never said the results were falsified.
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Myocarditis was identified as an extremely rare adverse event early in the rollout, but clinical trials for tens of thousands of participants were not large enough to detect such rare events before the EAU/Full Approval stages.
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While many recovered, thousands were hospitalized and 400-500 died annually in the US alone before the vaccine. Calling it 'mild' ignores the significant morbidity and mortality rates associated with the disease.
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The general point about vaccine trials is stronger than this specific framing. Vaccine trials often compare against an existing vaccine rather than saline, because withholding protection from infants in a trial raises an ethics problem. That is a real design tradeoff worth arguing about, but the choice is made openly and for a stated reason, not hidden.
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Peer-reviewed literature consistently shows that vaccines prevent severe disease without increasing the overall burden of chronic illness. Studies making contrary claims often suffer from selection bias or 'healthy user' bias in their methodology.
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MMR clinical trials often used active controls because withholding the vaccine from a control group would expose children to dangerous, highly contagious diseases. This is a standard ethical practice in clinical research.
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While the 1986 Act provides significant liability protection for design defects and side effects, it is not 'complete' immunity. Lawsuits can still be filed for manufacturing defects, negligence, or if the company failed to warn of known risks.
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