Part 19: Vaccines - The Product So Safe It Needs Complete Legal Immunity
Biology & Survival Series - Vaccines
In Part 8, we covered the pharmaceutical machine: an industry that spends more on lobbying than any other in America, that generated $662 billion in US revenue in 2025, and that has turned chronic disease into a recurring revenue model. Thirty million Americans on antidepressants that barely beat placebo. Statins that trade one number for diabetes risk. PPIs that suppress a symptom while creating three nutrient deficiencies.
This part is about one specific corner of that machine. The one product category so uniquely positioned in American law that if it injures or kills you, you cannot sue the company that made it.
That product is vaccines.
The Shield: 1986 and the Death of Accountability
In the early 1980s, the American vaccine industry was in trouble. Lawsuits over injuries from the DTP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccine were piling up. One manufacturer faced claims 200 times its annual vaccine sales. Companies were exiting the market. Only one US manufacturer of the DTP vaccine remained.
The industry’s solution was not to make safer products. It was to make lawsuits illegal.
On November 14, 1986, President Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). Its stated purpose: “to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims.” That’s the stated purpose of the law. Isn’t it funny that Reagan, the celebrity hero of the Republican party, was so monstrously corrupt - and yet nobody talks his contribution to the vaccine epidemic?
The law created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a special federal system commonly called “Vaccine Court.” If your child is injured by a vaccine, you don’t sue Pfizer or Merck or GlaxoSmithKline. You file a petition with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, where you argue against attorneys from the Department of Health and Human Services. The same department that approves vaccines, promotes vaccines, and sets the childhood vaccine schedule now also defends vaccines in court. That’s not oversight. That’s a closed loop.
In 2011, the Supreme Court cemented the arrangement. In Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, the Court ruled 6-2 that the 1986 Act “eliminates manufacturer liability for a vaccine’s unavoidable, adverse side effects.” Justice Sotomayor, in dissent, argued that the ruling went further than Congress intended by barring all design-defect claims, leaving vaccine-injured families with diminished legal options.
Think about that for a moment. Name another product in America with blanket legal immunity. Cars don’t have it. Guns don’t have it. Children’s toys don’t have it. Pharmaceutical drugs don’t have it (Merck paid $4.85 billion settling Vioxx lawsuits). Only vaccines.
The Court That Isn’t a Court
The VICP was sold as a streamlined, no-fault alternative to the tort system. In practice, it is a bureaucratic maze designed to exhaust injured families.
Since 1988, over 28,673 petitions have been filed with the VICP. Of approximately 12,499 petitions adjudicated, roughly half were dismissed. The program has paid out more than $5.3 billion in total compensation since its inception.
$5.3 billion. Paid for injuries from a product the government assures you is perfectly safe. And every dollar comes from a $0.75 excise tax on each vaccine dose, meaning taxpayers and patients fund the payouts. Not the manufacturers. Not the shareholders. You.
Cases routinely drag on for years. Families fighting for compensation against government lawyers while their child’s medical bills accumulate. The deck is stacked, the process is slow, and the manufacturers who made the product sit on the sidelines collecting revenue.
The Schedule: From 5 Doses to 88
In 1962, the childhood vaccine schedule included 3 vaccines targeting polio, DTP, and smallpox, for a total of roughly 5 doses.
In 1983, the schedule had expanded to 4 vaccines and 24 total doses.
By 2023, children following the CDC’s recommended schedule received 16 vaccines and up to 88 total doses from birth through age 18.
From 5 doses to 88. A 1,660% increase in the number of injections given to children, almost all of it occurring after manufacturers received legal immunity.
What a business model! Get the government to recommend or outright mandate vaccines (often required for your child to enter school), sell dangerous vaccines to unwitting parents who have been misled by decades of government and corporate media propaganda, and when their child is injured or killed, taxpayers foot the bill for any claims. You couldn’t find a clearer example of corporatism/fascism if you tried.
The Testing That Doesn’t Exist
Every pharmaceutical drug sold in America goes through pre-licensure clinical trials that include a placebo-controlled arm. You test the drug against an inert substance (saline, sugar pill) to isolate the drug’s actual effects. This is the gold standard of medical research. It’s how we know what a drug actually does versus what would have happened anyway.
Vaccines don’t do this.
No routine childhood vaccine on the CDC’s schedule was licensed based on a long-term, placebo-controlled trial using an inert placebo. This is not a fringe claim. It is confirmed in the FDA’s own package inserts for these products. You can read them yourself.
Instead, new vaccines are typically tested against other vaccines, or against the aluminum adjuvant used in the vaccine (more on that shortly). This is the scientific equivalent of comparing whiskey to vodka and concluding that whiskey doesn’t cause intoxication.
The monitoring periods are equally inadequate. Pre-licensure safety reviews for childhood vaccines range from a few days to a few months. Many of the conditions parents worry about most, developmental delays, autoimmune disorders, neurological problems, take years to manifest. A safety trial that monitors for 4 days cannot detect a problem that appears at 18 months.
When injuries do occur after licensure, the primary surveillance system is VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), a passive reporting system that relies on healthcare providers and patients to voluntarily file reports. How well does it work?
In 2010, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care completed an AHRQ-funded study to evaluate VAERS. Their finding: “Fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.” The study was designed to create an automated reporting system to fix this problem. According to ICAN, the CDC stopped cooperating with the project after the preliminary findings emerged. The automated system was never implemented.
So: no true placebo controls in pre-licensure trials. Monitoring periods measured in days. A post-market surveillance system that captures less than 1% of adverse events. And an agency that killed the project designed to fix the surveillance system.
This is what “rigorously tested” means in the vaccine context. What “science” are we meant to be trusting here, exactly?
The Aluminum Question
Most childhood vaccines contain aluminum adjuvants, compounds added to provoke a stronger immune response. Aluminum salts have been used in vaccines since the 1930s.
The FDA has confirmed that adjuvants “are not separately approved for safety.” The FDA’s allowable limits for aluminum in vaccines were based on decades-old tests measuring immune response effectiveness, not toxicological safety.
A systematic review by Jefferson et al. in The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2004) looked at the evidence on aluminum adjuvant safety and concluded: “Despite a lack of good-quality evidence we do not recommend that any further research on this topic is undertaken.” Their stated reasons: the review findings, ethical concerns about denying adjuvant to control groups, and the known real-world effects of aluminum-containing vaccines. In other words, they found a lack of evidence that aluminum adjuvants are safe, decided it would be unethical to run a proper study, and recommended not doing one.
Think about that: it’s unethical to even study aluminum because of worries that it’s toxic, and yet vaccinating an entire population with it is okay.
Meanwhile, researchers who did investigate faced consequences.
Professor Chris Exley, one of the world’s foremost experts on aluminum biology, spent decades at Keele University in the UK studying aluminum’s effects on human health. In 2017, he published research finding elevated aluminum in the brain tissue of autistic patients. His funding was subsequently blocked, and he was forced out of Keele University.
In France, Dr. Romain Gherardi identified macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF), a condition in which aluminum particles from vaccine adjuvants persist at the injection site for years, causing chronic muscle pain, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction. His research, published in peer-reviewed journals including Nature Scientific Reports, demonstrated that aluminum nanoparticles from vaccines can migrate to the brain. His 2019 paper in Autoimmunity Reviews confirmed “linkage to aluminum adjuvant persistency and diffusion in the immune system.”
Tomljenovic and Shaw published a 2011 review concluding that “aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications” and that “the possibility that vaccine benefits may have been overrated and the risk of potential adverse effects underestimated, has not been rigorously evaluated.”
No validated safety models. No separate approval for the adjuvant itself. The one Cochrane review that looked at the evidence found it lacking and recommended not doing more research. The scientists who did the research anyway were defunded or fired.
That’s not how science works. That’s how a coverup works.
The Study The CDC Refuses to Do
The CDC, the agency responsible for recommending the childhood vaccine schedule, has never conducted a study comparing health outcomes in vaccinated versus unvaccinated children.
ICAN (the Informed Consent Action Network) filed a FOIA request, and the CDC’s response, dated July 29, 2020, stated plainly: “The CDC has not conducted a study of health outcomes in vaccinated vs unvaccinated populations.”
The National Academy of Medicine identified vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated studies as a valuable research approach in its 2013 review of the childhood immunization schedule. The CDC has the data. It has the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a collaboration with nine major healthcare organizations covering millions of patients. It has the resources. It has the mandate.
It simply won’t do the study.
What We Do Know
When independent researchers have attempted it, the results have been inconvenient. A vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study conducted at Henry Ford Health System between 2020 and 2022, discussed at a Senate hearing on September 9, 2025, compared health outcomes between an unvaccinated cohort of 1,957 individuals and a vaccinated cohort. The study’s existence and findings became a matter of public record through Congressional testimony.
The study concluded: “Of the 22 chronic disease conditions studied, proportional contrasts always favor the unvaccinated. The most dramatic contrasts occurred in asthma, autism, auto-immunity, ADHD, brain dysfunction, mental health disorders, behavioral disability, developmental delay, learning disability, intellectual disability, speech disorder, motor disability, tics, other disability disorder, neurological disorder, and seizure disorder. At ten years of follow-up, 57% of the vaccinated cohort had at least one chronic disorder, compared with 17% in the unvaccinated.”
Another independent study compared the health of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated children 6-12 years old and found that vaccinated children were:
30x more likely to suffer from Allergic rhinitis.
3.9x more likely to have other allergies.
2.9x more likely to have Eczema / atopic dermatitis.
5.2x more likely to have a Learning disability.
4.2x more likely to have ADHD.
4.2x more likely to have Autism.
3.7x more likely to have any neuro-developmental disorder (learning disability, ADHD, or ASD).
2.4x more likely to have any chronic illness.
3.8x more likely to get an ear infection.
5.9x more likely to get pneumonia.
Look at those numbers again. Across the board, vaccinated kids have worse health outcomes. That study did also show that vaccinated kids were less likely to have whooping cough, rubella, and chickenpox. But is that worth a lifetime of chronic illness?
And - more importantly - are parents honestly told of these wide-ranging, chronic, lifetime side-effects? No, they’re not. They’re pressured by doctors (who get kickbacks/bribes for vaccinating kids!) and if they refuse, they often have to sign a form saying they’re aware of the increased risks of vaccine refusal.
Maybe we need to start making doctors sign forms every time they administer a vaccine, accepting the liability of increased levels of learning disabilities, autism, and pneumonia. I bet not a single doctor would sign that form.
The Watchdog That Doesn’t Watch
The 1986 Act didn’t just shield manufacturers from lawsuits. It also included a provision requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to submit biennial reports to Congress detailing what improvements it had made to vaccine safety. This was the trade-off: manufacturers got legal immunity, and in exchange, HHS would actively work to make vaccines safer and report on its progress every two years.
ICAN’s attorneys, led by Aaron Siri, filed a FOIA request in August 2017 seeking these biennial reports. When HHS was unresponsive, ICAN filed a lawsuit.
The result: HHS admitted it had never filed a single biennial vaccine safety report to Congress. Not one. In over 30 years.
The agency tasked with ensuring vaccine safety in exchange for removing manufacturers’ legal liability simply... didn’t do it. For three decades. Congress didn’t notice. Nobody checked. The one accountability mechanism written into the 1986 law was ignored entirely.
As of August 2025, ICAN reports that HHS has shirked these duties for 34 years and refuses to change.
Who Are We Trusting?
Let’s talk about the companies that make these legally immune products. The same companies the government tells you to trust with your children’s health.
Pfizer paid $2.3 billion in 2009 to settle civil and criminal charges for fraudulently marketing Bextra and other drugs, including a $1.3 billion criminal fine, the largest in US history at the time. A peer-reviewed paper in Open Medicine called Pfizer a “habitual offender” with $3 billion total in criminal convictions, civil penalties, and jury awards. That hasn’t stopped them from taking out ads on corporate media and paying doctors to poison your kids with vaccines.
GlaxoSmithKline paid $3 billion in 2012 in what the Department of Justice described as “the largest case of healthcare fraud in U.S. history.” The charges included failure to report safety data.
Merck paid $4.85 billion to settle 27,000 lawsuits over Vioxx, a painkiller linked to an estimated 88,000 heart attacks and 38,000 deaths. Merck knew about the risks, used ghostwriters and selective data to hide them, and kept the drug on the market. Their own internal analysis showed 34 deaths among 1,069 Vioxx patients versus 12 deaths among 1,075 placebo patients.
Johnson & Johnson, along with three drug distributors, agreed to a $26 billion settlement over their role in fueling the opioid crisis.
These companies paid tens of billions of dollars in fines for fraud, hiding safety data, and killing people with their products. Yet when it comes to vaccines, they have zero legal liability. The incentive structure is obvious: maximum profit, minimum accountability.
The History They Don’t Teach
The standard narrative goes like this: before vaccines, infectious diseases killed millions. Vaccines were introduced. Deaths plummeted. Vaccines saved us.
The data tells a different story.
A peer-reviewed study in Epidemiology and Infection (2015) documented that “measles mortality fell markedly (>90%) from the 19th century to mid-20th century prior to introduction of measles vaccine or the widespread use of antibiotics.” The measles vaccine wasn’t introduced until 1963. By that point, the death rate from measles had already dropped over 90%.
The same pattern holds for diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever. Death rates from these diseases fell dramatically across the United States, United Kingdom, and dozens of other countries well before vaccines were introduced. The drivers were sanitation, clean water, improved nutrition, better housing, and rising living standards.
This doesn’t mean vaccines had zero effect on disease incidence (reported cases). But the central claim, that vaccines were responsible for the dramatic decline in mortality from these diseases, is contradicted by the mortality data that preceded their introduction.
Then there’s the question of diagnostic redefinition.
Before 1955, a case of polio was diagnosed based on symptoms including temporary paralysis of any duration. After the introduction of the Salk vaccine in 1955, the diagnostic criteria were changed. As Humphries and Bystrianyk documented in Dissolving Illusions, the new standard required that “if there was no residual paralysis 60 days after onset, the disease was not considered to be paralytic polio.” Cases that would have previously been counted as polio were reclassified as viral meningitis, transverse myelitis, or Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Change the definition. Watch the numbers drop. Credit the vaccine.
The Contamination They Admitted To
Perhaps the most disturbing chapter in vaccine history is one the CDC itself acknowledges on its own website.
Between 1955 and 1963, 10 to 30 percent of polio vaccines administered in the United States were contaminated with Simian Virus 40 (SV40), a monkey virus discovered in the kidney cell cultures used to produce the vaccines. More than 98 million Americans were vaccinated during this period.
SV40 is a known oncogenic (cancer-causing) virus in laboratory animals. A study published in Oncogene, a Nature journal, found SV40 DNA in human cancers including mesothelioma, osteosarcoma, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. A separate epidemiological study found increased rates of ependymomas (37%), osteogenic sarcomas (26%), other bone tumors (34%), and mesothelioma (90%) among those in the exposed birth cohort compared to the unexposed cohort.
So to be clear: millions of Americans were poisoned with a cancer-causing virus hidden inside vaccines (by accident or on purpose, we’ll likely never know). It is a documented fact, confirmed by the CDC, published in Nature, and studied extensively in peer-reviewed literature.
What You Can Do
If you’ve read this far, you’re probably asking the question every parent asks: what do I actually do with this information?
The answer is to do your own research on the safety vs. efficacy of each specific vaccine. Spoiler alert: there’s no safe vaccines out there, they all have side effects. It’s up to you if they’re worth the risk compared to the claimed health benefits. Do not outsource this decision to your doctor, who gets a financial incentive (i.e. a bribe) for every child they vaccinate. They don’t care about you or your child.
Build a health foundation that doesn’t depend on any single intervention. The biology series has covered this extensively: real food, clean water, movement, sleep, sunlight, gut health, minimized chemical exposure. A body with a strong immune system, proper nutrition, and low toxic burden is resilient by design. This will get you much further than any toxic vaccine cocktail ever will.
This is Part 19 of the Biology & Survival series, which covers the science showing that by 2045 the average person will become infertile, and explains all the reasons why, so that you can protect yourself, your children, and your grandchildren.
Next up: Part 20 will focus on what you didn’t know was in cigarettes.
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If I had it to do over again I wouldn't vaccinate my kid with the up to 88 doses you stated, jabbing them with sometimes 3 in 1 like DTaP. What a shock to the system! You are right about it all..and the worst culprits of harm, in my opinion are the drug companies. I remember working for big pharma when the cox2 Vioxx was pulled...going back awhile..Also remember a company who was still out there in the field pushing their antibiotic as an only choice for a certain condition even though it wasn't. They downplayed their black box warning until eventual the drug had to be pulled by FDA. They need to do that with vaccines. The unfortunate thing is that we know there are injuries, but are we able to prove that the injury is directly linked to the vax. That is difficult. Even my mom's neighbor who dropped dead two days after a COVID vax, well they said she had a heart condition and that correlation is not causation. We know it's more than that now.
I think the COVID scam educated a lot of people. I just hope we don't falter to be prey again.