Well, well, well...It's unbelievable, but we've reached a point in this country where vaccines and their effectiveness have to be defended. To combat disinformation and misinformation, doctors have set up a database of vaccines and all the studies that have studied them - whether they work, how well they work, how they were done, and any adverse effects.
Dr Jake Scott, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford University, and his colleagues created a spreadsheet documenting randomized controlled trials (the best kind or research!) conducted for licensed vaccines. There are over 300 such trials listed in the spreadsheet, some of them conducted as early as the 1950s (e.g., the massive polio Salk Vaccine Field Trial). And the vast majority include the safety data (whether the vaccine is safe).
Dr. Scott points out that the evidence (all those studies!) shows that people claiming that vaccines (including childhood vaccines) have not been tested in randomized trials are "unequivocally, demonstrably, measurably false". Vaccines have been studied over and over. And they work!
Information about the spreadsheet and the randomized controlled studies (RCTs) for each vaccine are discussed in an interview with Dr. Jake Scott. Excerpts from CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy): Vaccine RCT spreadsheet aims to show the data, dispel myths about vaccines
Since late April, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford University and his colleagues have been volunteering their time on a project they hope will help educate the public, and combat misinformation, about the safety and efficacy vaccines.
The project, led by Jake Scott, MD, is a spreadsheet of all the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that have ever been conducted for licensed vaccines. The idea, hatched on the social media site X, was prompted by responses to an old video of current Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in which he claims that none of vaccines mandated for US children has ever been tested in preclinical studies against a placebo. In one of the responses, infectious disease physician Brad Spellberg, MD, suggested a crowd-sourced effort to identify and post all of the RCTs in which vaccines have been tested against a placebo. ...continue reading "New Database of Vaccine Studies, Their Safety, and Their Effectiveness"