"This white paper provides an introduction to vaccine safety science and policy in the United States. Section “I” discusses how Congress granted pharmaceutical companies immunity from liability for vaccine injuries and transferred all responsibility for vaccine safety to the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and its agencies, including the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Section “II” discusses how most pediatric vaccines were licensed based on inadequate clinical trials, including follow-up periods too brief to capture adverse outcomes, and illegitimate placebos (e.g., other vaccines). Section “III” discusses the CDC’s deficient post-licensure vaccine safety surveillance. Section “IV” discusses the conflicts of interest at HHS regarding vaccine safety, including the issues resulting from placing HHS in charge of vaccine safety and the conflicting duty of promoting and defending vaccines against any claim of injury. Until a frank conversation is possible regarding vaccine safety, children susceptible to vaccine injury will not be protected from such injury. Nor will children injured by vaccines be able to access the services they need. We can do better in protecting and serving children who are susceptible or succumb to serious injuries from vaccination. The first step in avoiding vaccine injuries and helping those already harmed is understanding the state of vaccine safety science and policy in America. This paper provides this understanding and highlights areas in need of improvement." The extract below can be found on page 18 of this document at this URL: https://www.icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/VaccineSafety-Version-1.0-October-2-2017-1.pdf #vaccines #PICphysicians #VaxvsUnvax