Aaron Siri dismantles the absurdity of our public health agencies' inaction on a fundamental question: Is the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule actually safe?

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) literally asked this question in a report paid for by HHS. Their conclusion? “We could not find one study that compared vaccinated to unvaccinated children.”

Let that sink in. The official conclusion was not that the schedule is safe, but that they could find no evidence to answer the question of its overall safety.

But here’s the kicker: the IOM report explicitly stated this crucial study could be done. They pointed to the CDC’s own Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a database with over 11 million health records that includes "thousands of completely unvaccinated kids."

That was in 2013.

So what did the CDC do? They spent a million dollars of taxpayer money—not on the study—but on a white paper to figure out how to do the study. A million dollars for a plan on a study design that any competent researcher could outline in an afternoon.

That white paper came out in 2015.

It has now been TEN YEARS since the IOM told them how to get the answer. A decade.

The most damning question: If they had conducted this simple study and it confirmed the schedule's safety, wouldn't they have published it immediately to silence all critics? The fact that it remains buried is perhaps the most telling result of all.

They have the money. They have the manpower. They have the data. They have had a decade.

What are they afraid of finding?

@delbigtree