Also, "(T)he government's own conclusion (is) that only 1% of all vaccine injuries are reported. …"

The U.S. Supreme Court's concluding comments in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth (2011) referred to vaccines as "unavoidably unsafe."

Sharpnack also says, "Vaccines have been successfully developed, studied, and used over more than a century. ..." "Successfully"? Why are gross failures of vaccination campaigns, past and present, covered up and ignored?

When researcher Dr. Bernice Eddy was told, in the 1950's, to test the Salk polio vaccine "in the eleventh hour," she ended up with dead and paralyzed monkeys. She warned of an upcoming tragedy with that vaccine, yet the pro-vaxxers insisted on barreling ahead.

One of the those who barreled ahead with this vaccine was the famous Dr. Alton Ochsner, New Orleans. (See Edward Haslam's book, "Dr. Mary's Monkey," pages 203-204) In 1955 Ochsner assured a group of physicians at Tulane Medical School that the Salk vaccine was safe. (Edward Haslam's father was among those physicians.) Ochsner said he wouldn't ask them to support something he wasn't willing to use on his own family and that he was going to give his two grandchildren the Salk vaccine right there in front of them. Which he did.

A few days later, the grandson was dead; and the granddaughter had polio. An attending physician to the grandson also contracted polio and was crippled. (See John Wilds' biography, "Dr. Ochsner: Surgeon of the South," page 221.)

Surely, caution, freedom of choice, a knowledge of vaccine history, and an open-mindedness to alternative views should be tolerated and promoted. Vaccines aren't safe!

Violet Fuller, Nampa