Finding and Funding the Cause: Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute

Scientific research on vaccines has been limited by a narrowness of approach. The current model of government and industry-sponsored research utilizes research methods that sanction the use of active placebos and active controls, which may be masking background levels of adverse reactions. Subjects are followed for short time frames in relation to the biological activity and reactivity of the components, preparations and combinations under review. Passive surveillance is inadequate to assess both short and long term health consequences at the population level due to under reporting and lack of scientific certainty of the relationship between the vaccines and health effects. Government sponsored safety monitoring research is primarily epidemiological. Bench science is required to examine the biological, molecular, genetic, and physiological impacts.

The assumptions that are made about vaccine manufacturing processes, ingredients, and testing help to ensure an outcome that is easy to control or influence. Adjuvants and preservatives have been presumed safe. The risk that culture mediums pose minimal risk of foreign protein and DNA contamination has been ignored, despite the tragic contamination of the polio vaccine with SV40 and the discovery of recent retroviral DNA contamination in some vaccines. In addition, vaccines contain a complex array of untested additives and ingredients that have never been proven safe to inject, nor do we know the cumulative and synergistic impacts of vaccine combinations and multiple exposures. Studies with narrow sets of objectives may be more likely to result in vaccines reaching the marketplace.

Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute and the Dwoskin Family Foundation is funding research into biological and genetic effects after vaccination, and establishing mechanisms of action, with a current focus on aluminum adjuvants and vaccines that contain aluminum. Evidence is mounting that vaccines contain harmful immune and neurotoxins that can cumulatively and synergistically harm the health and development of infants and children. An overview of published research and research in progress will be discussed, as well as ongoing education and outreach efforts of the foundations.

Claire Dwoskin

Claire Dwoskin is a child health advocate, philanthropist and leader of an international effort to address the increasing incidence of chronic illness and disability, including autoimmunity, and age-related neurological diseases. The Dwoskin Family Foundation supports research in the area of adjuvant-induced autoimmune diseases. Ms. Dwoskin is the founder of Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute, a medical and scientific collaborative established to provide research funding for independent methodologically sound controlled scientific research on vaccines and their ingredients. Prominent peer-reviewed journals including Annals of Medicine, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Lupus, Autoimmunity, and Vaccine have published research and articles funded by her foundation. She is an active volunteer board member of the National Vaccine Information Center. She is the co-founder of the Vaccine Safety Conference, which was organized in part to address the acknowledged significant increases in autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases in children and adults. She co-chaired the 2nd International Symposium on Vaccines at the 8th International Autoimmunity Congress in Granada, Spain. Her family foundation provided seed funding and guidance for the 2011 award-winning documentary The Greater Good.