On September 25, 2008 a committee of experts met, who were convened by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review “the epidemiological, clinical, and biological evidence regarding adverse health events associated with specific vaccines covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.”
Three years later, in a press release on August 25, 2011, they stated “[a]n analysis of more than 1,000 research articles concluded that few health problems are caused by or clearly associated with vaccines.” Also they state “that while no vaccine is 100 percent safe, very few adverse events are shown to be caused by vaccines“. Their report “Adverse Effects of Vaccines” was published 2012. [Inadaquate evidence!]
A key component of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act required the U.S. HHS to collaborate with the Institute of Medicine to assess the safety of vaccines and potential adverse events, especially in children.
The National Academy of Sciences web page specifically states “the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism or childhood diabetes”, but there are many more vaccines than just MMR.
The IOM review found that “the evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between [DTaP] vaccine and autism.” So when the CDC states there is “no evidence” that [all] vaccines cause autism [4] – they are correct, and through FOIA the CDC can produce NO evidence! [1, @27:30 2].
Also the one DTaP study which happened to “suggest an association between serious neurological disorders and whole-cell pertussis immunization” was “rejected” from the review as it “lacked an unvaccinated comparison population.”!
In 2023, Kathleen Stratton, a NASEM official AGAIN leads a panel of experts to assess, this time, the COVID-19 vaccine specific injury. [3]