Vaccine mandates go into effect in America in a procedure that evades accountability. JAMA absolves ACIP, CDC and the FDA from any accountability for the mandating of vaccines. In other words, state legislators take note. In other words, the real purpose of ACIP and FDA recommendations is to release federal funds to buy the vaccines from the manufacturers. An investigation by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., last year revealed many conflicts of interest among those who sit on federal panels where they can vote on the recommendations that trigger the federal funds.
Many panelists receive financial benefits from the vaccine manufacturers.
Each state needs to assess each vaccine individually. It's obvious that these are not the criteria used by the ACIP and FDA in their pronouncements about vaccines. Many states are now amending their compulsory vaccination laws to add hepatitis B and chickenpox. Meanwhile, since the government's decision-making procedure is not only defective but suspect, we need a philosophical exemption in every state so that decisions can be made by parents whose motive is the health of their children, not promoting government purchases of vaccines. Independent judgments by states and consumers might have helped to avoid past blunders like the rotavirus vaccine embarrassment last year that caused injuries and death to so many babies.