How the CDC Lies about the Safety of Aluminum in Vaccines

Introduction

One of the legitimate concerns that many parents have about adhering to the routine childhood vaccine schedule recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is that many vaccines contain aluminum, which is used as an “adjuvant”.

On a page of its website titled “Adjuvants and Vaccines”, the CDC explains the purpose of the aluminum by saying, “An adjuvant is an ingredient used in some vaccines that helps create a stronger immune response in people receiving the vaccine. In other words, adjuvants help vaccines work better.”

To reassure the public, the CDC states that “Aluminum salts, such as aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, and aluminum potassium sulfate have been used safely in vaccines for more than 70 years.” The CDC says that all aluminum-containing vaccines “are tested for safety and effectiveness in clinical trials before they are licensed for use in the United States” and are “continually monitored by CDC and FDA once they are approved.”

The page has been recently updated to acknowledge that a CDC study published in September 2022 found “a positive association between cumulative vaccine‑associated aluminum before age 24 months and persistent asthma at age 24 through 59 months among children with and without eczema.” For children with eczema, the finding was a 26 percent increased risk of asthma for every 1,000 micrograms of aluminum received by vaccination.

The CDC, however, downplays these findings by describing the study as having found a “possible” association, even though the increased risk of asthma in children with and without eczema was statistically significant and the study authors themselves acknowledge that a “positive association” was found. The CDC further describes the association between aluminum-containing vaccines and an increased risk of asthma as merely a “potential” safety signal rather than acknowledging it to be an existential safety signal.

Thusly downplaying the increased risk of asthma associated with aluminum exposure from vaccines, the CDC persists in its policy course and its longstanding claim that “the amount of aluminum exposure in people who follow the recommended vaccine schedule is low and is not readily absorbed by the body.”

To support its claim that the cumulative levels of aluminum that children are exposed to by its routine childhood vaccine schedule is “low” and that the aluminum is readily eliminated from the body without causing toxic effects, the CDC cites a study by researchers from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That study, conducted by Robert J. Mitkus et al. and published in the journal Vaccine in 2011, is titled “Updated aluminum pharmacokinetics following infant exposures through diet and vaccination”.

The FDA likewise cites the study by Mitkus et al. as having shown that “the risk to infants posed by the total aluminum exposure received from the entire recommended series of childhood vaccines over the first year of life is extremely low.”

However, that study does not support the government’s claims about vaccine safety. Indeed, the claims made by the CDC and FDA serve to illustrate the complete untrustworthiness of the “public health” establishment.

In truth, aluminum is a known neurotoxin that accumulates in tissues and organs, including the brain, and that plausibly causes neurological harms to children at the cumulative levels that children are exposed to by the CDC’s routine childhood vaccine schedule.

Concerns about the potential toxic harms to children have been raised in the medical literature, but the CDC cherry-picks data to support its policies, as illustrated by how it cites the FDA study while willfully ignoring other research demonstrating the serious errors made by Mitkus et al. in their analysis.

Indeed, for these “public health” agencies to rely on that FDA study as proof that the aluminum in vaccines is “safe” amounts to outright scientific fraud.