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Siri told the committee the Henry Ford study compared children born from 2000 to 2016 and included 18,468 subjects. He said the study \"found vaccinated children had 4.29 times the rate of asthma, 3.03 times the rate of atopic disease, 5.96 times the rate of autoimmune disease, and 5.53 times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders,\" and that the paper showed vaccinated children had chronic health issues at a rate of about 57 percent versus 17 percent in the unvaccinated cohort.

The study and whether it was suppressed were a focal point for proponents of additional vaccine safety research. Senator Ron Johnson, who convened the hearing, said he had \"asked the producers\" of a documentary to show a trailer and that the unpublished analysis should be entered into the record. Siri characterized the study as \"a large vaccinated versus unvaccinated study using health data from a major United States health institution\" and said its results were \"troubling.\" He told the panel the authors declined to publish because they feared professional repercussions.

Stanford infectious‑disease physician Jake Scott, one of three witnesses, disputed both the study’s methods and the interpretation Siri offered. Scott said the unpublished analysis remained hidden from peer review and that the vaccinated cohort had substantially more follow‑up time and medical visits than the unvaccinated cohort, creating detection bias. \"When diagnoses require doctor visits, children seeing doctors more often will inevitably have more recorded conditions,\" he testified. Scott also noted the study reported zero cases of certain common diagnoses in the unvaccinated group, which he called unlikely given national prevalence rates.

Siri and Scott described different sensitivity analyses. Siri said the authors ran checks — excluding children who did not seek care, and restricting cohorts to children continuously enrolled for five years — and reported the elevated risk among vaccinated children remained or increased. Scott said the published record for other large observational studies and randomized trials does not support the magnitude of the Henry Ford findings and that the unpublished manuscript had not been vetted through peer review.

Committee members pressed witnesses on next steps. Senator Richard Blumenthal said hearings should be grounded in peer‑reviewed evidence and expressed concern about elevating a single unpublished analysis. Senator Johnson replied he had forced the study’s disclosure to the committee because \"this is information the public should have had in 2020,\" and said he wanted the authors to publish and submit the paper to peer review.

The hearing did not produce a formal action or committee vote on the manuscript. Witnesses and senators repeatedly called for peer review and replication: Siri said the authors should submit the analysis to a journal; Scott said the study should be published and scrutinized by independent researchers so its design and potential biases can be assessed.

Ending — The exchange left the Henry Ford analysis publicly visible but unresolved: the committee heard conflicting accounts about the study’s methods and whether the findings represent detection bias, residual confounding, or a signal that merits further study. Senators urged the authors to submit the work to peer review and for independent groups to attempt replication.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations How the Corruption of Science has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines","oneSentenceSummary","A Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing turned on an unpublished Henry Ford Health System birth‑cohort study that attorney Aaron Siri said shows vaccinated children had higher rates of several chronic illnesses compared with unvaccinated children.","taxTitle","Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Senate Committee, Standing Committees - House & Senate, Congressional Hearings Compilation, Legislative, Federal","taxId",1996,"location","","headline","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":72,"_74":72},6025733,"Robert Malone sworn; senators debate whether his social‑media memes crossed a line after CDC shooting",10800,1850595,12651000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5752915-5a55cfd951ad3705f4f7ecdad9651956&start=1850&end=12651","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5752915-5a55cfd951ad3705f4f7ecdad9651956/thumbnail_1850595.jpg","/articles/6025733/Robert-Malone-sworn-senators-debate-whether-his-socialmedia-memes-crossed-a-line-after-CDC-shooting","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6025733-946bd98ae45c6319e5d282af0a966c0f/orig.mp4?Expires=1771104824&Signature=kjcXrRVauPzY24WWh1lUjdrXqw1QK8HKVWHDvPC9zYSNKnGaVVNMfzYb1tC6E7yzj~LMB9Y4depyh3WZ4TDpu8iQNlQ43ijl9f3jT2m0xaH4-sbXlZm7GX-U8SsQlZXoujwrn7k1jQ3upbqjuMcKqyXUCUEkoMln7UG-YsWJyS0qmj9PrTzKGKMTE-AJdTHwRFrgkroBDfs78hNFaCB8f2NuTKnM8bWMdje67rATb3SKpzlsQcmVXPz54L3rU4LZmE3eZ0ee1Cq9Tv7slL5YoBVnrZWpJg0R~zfA1eYTipHzBdKyxcDaoMZFdsZ7GcF1H2iKv3K-GD5vrhh0Yx4VwA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The hearing turned to conduct and public communications by members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on immunization practices after senators raised social‑media posts by Dr. Robert Malone.

Senator Richard Blumenthal opened by characterizing some posts as threatening and asked the chairman to enter letters and evidence into the record. Blumenthal said a social‑media image posted by Malone — an image of a revolver with a one‑bullet motif that had circulated hours before a gunman fired rounds at the CDC — was an example of rhetoric that could inflame violence. \"When someone advising CDC on vaccine policy asks where in the world officials are hiding after a deadly attack, that crosses every line,\" Blumenthal said.

Malone, who was sworn and later testified, told the committee the items were part of a Friday/Sunday meme roundup published on his Substack, Malone.News, and that he and his wife compile images from other sources for commentary. \"Russian roulette is a metaphor,\" Malone said in his testimony. He told the panel the meme collection was intended as political satire and humor, not an incitement to violence, and said he had not advocated violence. Malone said he had previously provided his CV to the committee and offered to meet with Senate staff to discuss qualifications after hearing Blumenthal say Malone was unqualified.

Senators and witnesses also highlighted the context of threats against public health workers. Senator Blumenthal and other witnesses described a wider pattern: JAMA and other outlets had reported threats to physicians and public health officials after pandemic disputes, and a recent open letter by more than 1,000 current and former HHS employees called for the resignation of HHS leadership. At the same time, members of the panel said threatening rhetoric should be condemned; Malone agreed that targeted violent threats are unacceptable.

The committee did not take formal disciplinary action. Blumenthal asked the chairman to join a demand that Malone be fired from advisory roles; the chairman and others took no administrative action on the record during the hearing.

Ending — Malone remained a sworn witness and defended the posts as metaphors and satire. Senators emphasized the need to separate robust public debate from rhetoric that could endanger public servants, and several members said threats against scientists and public health workers are unacceptable.","Dr. Robert Malone, a new ACIP appointee, was sworn and defended meme posts compiled on a Substack; senators including Richard Blumenthal and others said some posts were threatening and inappropriate after a deadly shooting at CDC, while Malone said the items were humor and not intended to incite violence.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":72,"_74":72},6025738,"Experts dispute completeness of vaccine trial controls and highlight gaps in U.S. safety surveillance systems",6130,3265210,9396000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5752915-5a55cfd951ad3705f4f7ecdad9651956&start=3265&end=9396","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5752915-5a55cfd951ad3705f4f7ecdad9651956/thumbnail_3265210.jpg","/articles/6025738/Experts-dispute-completeness-of-vaccine-trial-controls-and-highlight-gaps-in-US-safety-surveillance-systems","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6025738-46b265f9fecc88f0006d8d5914d189a7/orig.mp4?Expires=1771104824&Signature=HCDO964KS4DxOtetP5X1BNLpqNS~BojNuK~AtdgQFz99iRUffG8UHlCaMIrwE3udHS2KeQ3f8w~bSnBR5Ao128qn~AMtDGpvr~UoEQpto82ls-brqSuEXjR3qYbe3VdyHc9G5CKOPSKt0OtSbBkj74VbmQ105Q1RBl~sZoKLm8XDF6okkBylqBr1igQeC3sE9oeoXX25OhFA8oUnX0jGgm7PVUc7R1cXy8JqBS6VimvXJ4nOIRcBhS8Z5ovb-cOaGQpy8vXUpEG3-lvYukXtBzT1KCt07TxXTp4R1OGWNUC7cirxYIBQqNiyiG0SE1PkZZlLRQZOHAX5ORBhOEZZLg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Debate at the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing centered on the evidence base underlying routine childhood vaccines and the robustness of safety surveillance systems.

Stanford infectious‑disease physician Jake Scott described an open database his team compiled covering 1,088 randomized controlled vaccine trials dating from 1941 to 2025 and said 661 of those trials used inert placebo controls. \"Every entry is publicly verifiable through PubMed links,\" Scott told the committee and said the catalog is intended to improve transparency.

Attorney Aaron Siri and researcher Toby Rogers challenged Scott’s interpretation. Siri argued that when the 661 trials are examined, most are irrelevant to routine childhood injected vaccines: \"567 of these trials were not a routine injected vaccine for disease in the CDC's child's schedule,\" he said, and after excluding irrelevant populations and non‑US products, he said only three trials remained that could be said to use inert comparators for vaccines licensed for routine childhood use. Rogers added that placebo composition varied and that regulators and journals do not require saline placebos: \"Inert should mean that the substance does not cause a chemical or biological reaction in the body,\" Rogers testified, and he said manufacturers and journals frequently used adjuvant or other non‑saline comparators.

The witnesses also disagreed on post‑licensure safety surveillance. Siri described a long FOIA fight to obtain the CDC’s v‑safe data and said the records showed about 10,000,000 people enrolled in the system early after rollout. Siri told the committee that the recovered v‑safe files indicated \"7.7 percent of these vaccine enthusiasts reported needing medical care that they attributed most likely to the vaccine,\" and that many such entries represented emergency or urgent‑care visits. Stanford’s Scott said v‑safe as implemented (short, checkbox‑based daily follow‑ups) was not designed to detect many adverse events of interest and that multiple monitoring systems exist and can detect rare events.

On spontaneous reporting, witnesses noted limitations in VAERS. Siri cited an AHRQ‑funded Harvard study and said underreporting of adverse events to passive systems can be substantial; he told the panel the underreporting fraction could be \"less than 1 percent\" in some contexts, which he used to illustrate the difficulty of relying solely on VAERS counts for incidence estimates.

Senators asked whether trial documents relied upon at licensure are publicly available; witnesses said some trial reports required FOIA litigation to obtain. Scott and others said much vaccine data are publicly accessible but also acknowledged that not every dataset is easy to obtain and that independent researchers face hurdles in accessing trial‑level or registry datasets.

Ending — Witnesses agreed that transparency and independent replication are important but sharply disagreed about whether existing trials and surveillance are sufficient. Senators pressed for publication, data access, and better documentation about placebo composition and monitoring design.","Witnesses diverged over whether randomized trials and safety surveillance provide adequate evidence: Stanford's Dr. Jake Scott described a database of randomized vaccine trials and placebo controls; critics said many trials cited are irrelevant or used non‑saline comparators; attorneys cited v‑safe FOIA data and VAERS underreporting concerns.","actionData","errors"]

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Senate hearing spotlights unpublished Henry Ford birth‑cohort study alleging higher chronic illness rates in vaccinated children

Robert Malone sworn; senators debate whether his social‑media memes crossed a line after CDC shooting

Experts dispute completeness of vaccine trial controls and highlight gaps in U.S. safety surveillance systems