Drs. Paul Thomas and Kenneth Stoller were stripped of their licenses to practice medicine. Dr. Thomas had his Oregon license taken away in December 2020, after a state medical board declared that he posed “an immediate danger to the public and his patients.” He was exempting children from vaccines based on the wishes of the parents. Dr. Stoller lost the right to practice medicine in California in 2021 after he used genetic information and family history to issue vaccine exemptions to children. Both men are now suing the CDC, alleging that the current 72-shot childhood vaccination schedule is a violation of the constitutional rights of doctors, children, and families.
The suit was filed in federal court last week. It states that the CDC has never conducted adequate studies on the long-term and cumulative effects of giving so many shots to children. The complaint says that the childhood vaccination schedule, which is mandatory in all 50 states for kids to attend public school, “is only based on an evaluation of short-term individual vaccine risks.”
“America administers more vaccines than any nation on earth while producing the sickest children in the developed world. Yet CDC demands proof of harm while refusing to conduct the studies that could provide it.”
Studying the cumulative effects of so many shots seems like it would be a commonsense thing, doesn’t it? If your doctor wants to prescribe a new medication to you, they’re required to check and see whether it will cause negative interactions with any other pills you’re already taking. If they prescribe the wrong thing, it could make you sick or kill you.
The CDC only does studies on individual vaccines, though. For example, they’ve studied the individual effects of the measles vaccine, the mumps vaccine, and the rubella vaccine. While those have each been declared safe individually, the CDC has never studied the cumulative effects of combining them into the three-in-one MMR shot or combining the MMR with the 69 other shots on the schedule.
Vaccine apologists will insist that so many shots are safe and effective, and that the CDC has been conducting rigorous safety testing of all childhood vaccines for decades. In 1986, for example, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. There were two important things this law required.
HHS created the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines. This body’s job was to provide oversight of all the childhood vaccines and any injuries they were causing, since they knew there were many vaccines in development that would be added to the CDC schedule in the 1980s and ‘90s.
Plus, the HHS Secretary was required by law to submit a biennial report to Congress. The reports explain all the safety and testing measures that CDC and the FDA are conducting on childhood vaccines, and all the progress that public health officials are making when it comes to making vaccines safer and better.
Well, there you go. That should make all the anti-vaxxer conspiracy kooks shut up about the dangers of vaccines, right? In the past 39 years, there should now be 19 cumulative biennial reports proving that vaccines are not only safe—but that they’ve been getting safer all this time.
Except… HHS disbanded the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines in 1998. HHS never gave Congress a formal explanation why. (We can guess. The 1990s were when the rates of SIDS and autism started skyrocketing in America.)
As for those biennial safety reports that HHS directors are required by law to file with Congress, you should read them. Don’t worry, it won’t take long. Not one HHS Director in the past 39 years has ever filed one of those mandatory, required-by-law reports.
The lawsuit from Drs. Thomas and Stoller alleges that the CDC is violating the First Amendment rights of doctors, by silencing them or destroying their careers if they grant vaccine exemptions or even question the safety of the Holy Vaccines. It alleges that the childhood vaccine schedule, since it is mandatory in all 50 states and exemptions are becoming increasingly scarce, violates the Fifth Amendment right of children and parents (due process and bodily integrity).
Finally, the suit wants the CDC vaccination schedule to be declared in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). They say it’s another example of arbitrary and capricious rulemaking by a federal agency that doesn’t have the authority to do so.
We don’t know how the lawsuit is going to turn out. It’s too soon to make predictions on that. The good news is that current HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., reinstated the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines this year. And next year will be the first time that Congress will receive one of those mandatory biennial reports on vaccine injuries and safety. We’re guessing that the medical establishment and Big Pharma won’t be happy about that report.