Industry Experts Panic as RFK Jr. Orders All New Vaccines Have Placebo Trials
- Editor Darren Birks
- May 5
- 2 min read
Be honest, you thought this had always been done.
RFK Jr. Orders Placebo Testing for All New Vaccines: Experts Warn of 'Risks to Public Health'
A sweeping change in vaccine approval policy aims for transparency but may sow confusion, slow access, and threaten trust in proven immunisations.
Millions of people trust vaccines because they believe rigorous safety testing is the norm — few, if any, really understand how that testing actually works, and would be horrified if they knew the truth. The public have been systematically lied to about what vaccines are, what's in them, how effective they really are, and most importantly of all, how unsafe they are.
Most people don’t realise that most vaccines have historically been tested not against inert placebos, like saline, but against other vaccines or adjuvants. Modern vaccines don't ever get to see the virus they're supposed to be defending against. The Covid jab was a great example of the lack of any real safety testing. No SARS-Cov2 virus came anywhere near any patient in any trial. That's right, you didn't miss-read that. Covid-19 vaccines were designed tested and released without a single virus being present for any of them.
Now all of the 'smoke and mirrors science' is about to come to an end.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, a move that the agency said will increase transparency but that medical experts fear could limit access to vaccines and undermine the public’s trust in immunisation depending on its implementation.
The potential change outlined in a statement says all new vaccines will be required to undergo placebo testing, a procedure in which some people receive the vaccine and others receive an inert substance — such as a saline shot — before the results are compared.
“All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,” an HHS spokesperson told The Washington Post in response to questions about Kennedy’s comments on the measles vaccines and general vaccine policy.
Vaccines for new pathogens are often tested this way. But for well-researched diseases, such as measles and polio, public health experts say it makes little sense to do that and can be unethical, because the placebo group would not receive a known effective intervention.
HHS did not clarify how the change will be implemented and for which vaccines the testing would apply, nor did it define what the department meant by “new vaccine”.
But the Government indicated it wouldn’t apply to the flu vaccine, which is updated year to year and which HHS stated “has been tried and tested for more than 80 years”. In response to questions about whether other vaccines previously safety tested would be newly scrutinised, the department focused on its concerns around the coronavirus vaccine but did not address other immunisations.
Robert Kennedy has long since campaigned for greater transparency around vaccines, and has been instrumental in exposing their dangerous lack of any testing. A statement from the HHS said “Secretary Kennedy is not anti-vaccine — he is pro-safety, pro-transparency, and pro-accountability,”
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