Twitter Exchange With Dr. Paul Offit
Dr. Offit’s categorically false claim about childhood vaccine clinical trials
Dr. Offit penned an article attacking Robert F. Kenney Jr. in which Dr. Offit claimed, “All vaccines are tested in placebo-controlled trials before licensure.” Dr. Offit’s claim is categorically false.
Hence, I tweeted out the following:
In response, Dr. Offit wrote:
In rebuttal, I wrote:
Dr. Offit still has not responded, though he has changed his initial claim that “All vaccines are tested in placebo-controlled trials before licensure” to “Most vaccines are tested in placebo-controlled trials before licensure.”
It is ironic that Dr. Offit spread false information about vaccine safety in an article he claimed was about false information about vaccine safety. Incredibly, Dr. Offit’s updated claim is still categorically false. You need only review pages 3 to 7 of this document.
That he gets this wrong is highly concerning as Dr. Offit is an author of the chapter “Vaccine Safety” in the medical textbook on vaccines, Plotkin’s Vaccines, is a member of the FDA’s vaccine committee, and is viewed by many as a leading authority on vaccines and vaccine safety.
The lesson yet again is not that “health” authorities should never make mistakes. They will. It happens. The lesson is that civil and individual rights should never be contingent upon a medical procedure. Everyone, the naturally immune or otherwise, who wants to get vaccinated and boosted should be free to do so. But nobody should be coerced by the government to partake in any medical procedure.
Hi Aaron! Thanks for all that you do!
Could the next deposition on vaccines be designed with questions about each and every control used in vaccine clinical trials? If Hotez, Offit, Fauci, Plotkin or others are forced to read the ingredients in each placebo and say under oath whether they are biologically able to function as an inert placebo, and for what purpose each placebo was chosen as the comparator, it will provide either irrefutable evidence as to their reactivity or they will have committed perjury.
Thank you Aaron for always sticking to the data; I appreciate how you take the high road and do not sink to tactics used by your opponents. As an RN who works in a very large system, I am grateful for the help you’ve provided frontline workers like us, so many who would’ve been put in harm’s way without the truth about this situation. You will prevail.