Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Safety Research

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Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Safety Research

Conflicts of interest (COls) cloud vaccine safety research. Sponsors of

research have competing interests that may impede the objective study of

vaccine side effects. Vaccine manufacturers, health officials, and

medical journals may have financial and bureaucratic reasons for not

wanting to acknowledge the risks of vaccines. Using the vaccine-autism

debate as an illustration, this article details the conflicts of interest

each of these groups faces, outlines the current state of vaccine safety

research, and suggests remedies to address COls. One Click

Note: So far this 2012, Gayle DeLong's paper on conflicts of

interest in vaccine safety research is the must read of the year for

those for those with even just a passing interest in vaccine safety,

especially those with children. It is highly informative. As we now know,

medical research fraud is endemic, vaccine research particularly so.

Gayle DeLong highlights how vaccine manufactur ers have little incentive

to research the safety of their products. Gayle DeLong is to be

congratulated for putting these concerns so effectively in the public

domain. Reading the full text of this paper is an education, particularly

for parents, that they will never live to regret. Knowledge is

power.

Gayle DeLong, Accountability in Research. 19:65-88. 2012

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