CASE NOT CLOSED ON GOVERNMENT VACCINE SAFETY CLAIMS
In a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of House and Senate Committees charged with oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Coalition for Vaccine Safety (CVS) is calling for hearings to investigate HHS, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other government agencies for failure to fully address issues of vaccine safety as intended by the Mandate for Safer Vaccines in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.
With the federal government claiming "case closed" on possible damage to children caused by compulsory vaccines, too much evidence exists and too many unanswered questions remain, according to the letter. Key concerns are: insufficient and flawed data knowingly and willing used by government entities to reach conclusions that science dictates simply cannot be reached; conflicts of interest of individuals and government agencies involved in vaccine safety research; and ignored statements from experts regarding the un-answered question of a link between thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines and autism.
"The question has not been answered." (former Chairman of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Dr. Bernadine Healy)
"[T]here's been grossly insufficient investment in research on the safety of immunization." (former head of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Louis Cooper)
"Yet the study had significant weaknesses and they knew it." (former Congressman David Weldon, MD, R-FL in reference to a CDC study regarding thimerosal and autism)