Did you know that doctors can lose their medical licenses for asking uncomfortable questions about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) childhood vaccination schedule? No wonder pediatricians are so insistent that vaccines are completely safe and could never harm a child!
It happened to Drs. Paul Thomas and Kenneth Stoller. They filed a lawsuit against the CDC last week over the childhood vaccine schedule, using the White House’s official Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Report as the basis.
The lawsuit states that the lack of safety testing on vaccines violates both federal law and children’s constitutional rights. American children are required to take between 72 and 90 vaccine doses (depending on the state they live in) for public school attendance. That’s far more vaccinations than any other advanced nation, to protect against hypothetical infection with diseases most people are unlikely to encounter in their lifetimes.
Despite all the vaunted safety of vaccines, the lawsuit notes an uncomfortable truth that more parents are finally starting to realize. The CDC has only conducted short-term testing on the safety of individual vaccines. It’s never done long-term testing, and it has never tested to see whether the cumulative effect of so many vaccines is safe.
The lawsuit states, “The facts establish a continuing public health outrage hiding in plain sight: America administers more vaccines than any nation on earth while producing the sickest children in the developed world.”
That is true. Denmark only has 10 vaccines on its childhood schedule. They don’t give their children shots for chickenpox, flu, RSV, rotavirus, Hepatitis A, COVID-19, and multiple meningococcal strains. They don’t have disease outbreaks. Their kids are fine. However, with 10 vaccines on the childhood schedule, they still have an autism rate of about 1 in 61 children.
That’s compared to the USA, which vaccinates children for everything pharmaceutical companies can develop vaccines for. Our autism rate is now 1 in 31 children, and 1 in 12 boys in some parts of the country. Not to mention a wide range of other neurological disorders, peanut allergies, wheat allergies, and other afflictions that don’t impact children in Denmark.
The lawsuit accuses the CDC of violating federal law. The last time that the “public health” agency convened its Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines was in 1998. Yet the CDC has added 17 more vaccines to the schedule since that year. The smug and arrogant scientific community is so convinced that vaccines are incapable of doing harm that they haven’t even bothered to check on basic safety protocols in almost 30 years.
The same day that Drs. Thomas and Stoller filed their lawsuit, HHS suddenly announced that it was going to reinstate the task force immediately and put them back to work. That’s an encouraging baby step.
While the CDC childhood vaccination schedule is technically a “recommendation,” many states use the schedule as the basis to impose vaccine mandates on children for public school attendance. Because state legislatures have mandated the shots, many state medical boards then use that as grounds to suspend a doctor’s medical license if they point out that it’s bonkers to give American children 72+ shots for which there’s no real long-term safety data. That’s what happened to the two doctors filing this suit.
The complaint further argues that the vaccine schedule deprives parents and children of life, liberty, or property under the Fifth Amendment. The schedule denies parents the right to direct the medical care of their children and denies children their right to bodily integrity.
Perhaps most importantly, the lawsuit states that the CDC “refuses to recognize any category of ‘vaccine-vulnerable’ children despite mounting evidence they exist.”
If the CDC were to finally conduct the testing that the lawsuit is demanding, researchers might discover that certain children should simply not be given vaccines until they’re older. But we don’t know the answer to that question, because the CDC has never done the research.
The irony of the lawsuit is that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is already making progress on implementing the changes the suit demands. If a court finds on behalf of the plaintiffs, it could potentially force HHS to make those changes faster. We get the sense that RFK actually welcomes these lawsuits, because they’re actually in line with his own expertise on public health.
You can read the Make America Healthy Again Report here, which is the basis for this lawsuit, or drag and drop the link below into your browser to read it.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/WH-The-MAHA-Report-Assessment.pdf
