On March 17, 1995, with little public fanfare, the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approved another vaccine, and this
was subsequently added to the nation's childhood
immunization schedule. Gradually, one by one, states passed
laws mandating that each and every infant be inoculated at
age 12 months with the newly approved live virus, to help
protect against a common childhood disease.
From 1995 through late 2002, I served as a Research/Analyst
in a program, supported by a grant from the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), designed to study the
effects of this newly licensed vaccine in a geographical
region of some 300,000 residents. Several years after the
program began, positive aspects of vaccination were allowed
to be published in scientific journals; however, I noticed
that data I had collected suggesting that adverse effects
might well be associated with the vaccination program were
being handled quite differently. A preliminary trend
suggested that the vaccination itself might have the
potential to spawn a widespread epidemic among adults of a
disease far more serious than the one being inoculated
against. When CDC-affiliated health authorities learned
this, they began to take action, including legal steps, to
prevent my making these findings known to the scientific
community and the public.
But whenever research data and information concerning
potential adverse effects associated with a vaccine used in
human populations are suppressed and/or misrepresented by
health authorities, not only is this most disturbing, it
goes against all accepted scientific norms and dangerously
compromises scientists' professional ethics. And so, to
expose and warn against what I believe to be just such
abuses of ethics and public trust, I have written the book
you are about to read.
n Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D.
Computer Scientist/Research Analyst