Is the CDC Trustworthy in Overseeing Vaccine Safety?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140913232932/http://focusautisminc.org/a-comprehensive-statement-from-dr-brian-hooker-in-response-to-the-cdcs-recent-statement-defending-the-validity-of-the-destefano-et-al-study/
Point-by-point response to the CDC statement:
My study shows a vaccine autism connection in African American boys when they received the MMR vaccine before 36 months versus those boys who received the MMR vaccine after 36 months.
CDC internal reports for this study show that they reached the same conclusion. The difference between my findings and the CDC’s is they chose not to report the connection and instead stand by their published findings where data from African Americans without birth certificates were removed. This reduction of the sample size skewed the outcome to favor the CDC’s desired results to discount any vaccine-autism connection. The reduction was contrary to the agreed upon study protocol that stated, “The only variable available to be assessed as a potential confounder using the entire sample is child’s race.”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2010/09-152.pdf
MR. FREDERICK: It is not surplus if one reads comment k and understands what the drafters there were intending to get at, which was: If, based on current scientific knowledge, the risks are unavoidably unsafe, meaning there is no way in science we can design a safer product, there will be a defense to a claim of strict liability unless or provided that the product is properly manufactured and warned against. This was a proviso that was intended to ensure that the focus be kept on the unavoidable, unsafe aspects of the design of the vaccine.
>https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2010/09-152.pdf
We are talking about trying to eliminate some of the most horrifying and horrible incidents of injury to vaccines that we compel children to take.
And the whole idea behind Congress's scheme was to balance having vaccine supply available with providing a generous form of compensation to those persons who would be injured.