Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study
Source: Reuters
August 11, 2025 10:48 AM EDT Updated 7 hours ago
Aug 11 (Reuters) - An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters. Kennedy has long promoted doubts about vaccines' safety and efficacy, and as health secretary has upended the federal government's process for recommending immunization.
A recent media report said he has been considering whether to initiate a review of shots that contain aluminum, which he says are linked to autoimmune diseases and allergies. The study, which was funded by the Danish government and published in July in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed nationwide registry data for more than 1.2 million children over more than two decades. It did not find evidence that exposure to aluminum in vaccines had caused an increased risk for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders.
The work is by far the best available evidence on the question of the safety of aluminum in vaccines, said Adam Finn, a childhood vaccination expert in the UK and pediatrician at the University of Bristol, who was not involved in the study. "It's solid, (a) massive dataset and high-quality data," he said.
Kennedy described the research as "a deceitful propaganda stunt by the pharmaceutical industry," and said the scientists who authored it had "meticulously designed it not to find harm" in a detailed Aug. 1 opinion piece on TrialSite News, an independent website focused on clinical research. He called on the journal to "immediately retract" the study. "I see no reason for retraction," Dr. Christine Laine, editor in chief of the Annals and a professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, said in an interview.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/medical-journal-rejects-kennedys-call-for-retraction-vaccine-study-2025-08-11/
Link to Danish STUDY - Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study

LiberalArkie
(18,819 posts)junior to have a brain worm.
customerserviceguy
(25,378 posts)It ran out of nutrition.
maspaha
(626 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,378 posts)produce such a flawed individual?
wolfie001
(5,949 posts)He had a rating system. What a foul pig. Using his "good" name for that. Just an attention-seeking whore. Also, the fakest environmentalist ever born.
erronis
(21,116 posts)Simple question - cui bono?
It's obvious that what rfkjr is presenting as evidence is just hastily and non-peer reviewed papers.
But trying to rebut pro/con on evidence and opinions is like fighting the pig/worm in the mud.
The question is still "Why". Why go to these lengths in such a hurry to destroy decades of research?
Are the big insurance companies with billion$ behind this? Why? Pharma - Why?
Killing millions of people? Why?
Unless they are really trying to rid the planet of 80-90% of the population so they have more, Why?
Only psychpaths like trump and putin (and others) would get so many jollies out of watching death and destruction.
PSPS
(14,844 posts)He may actually believe his own nonsense. He got his job as a quid-pro-quo reward for throwing his support to trump, and all trump wants is a sycophant in that position. The fact that he's destroying the scientific research as well as people's lives is a plus because this is trump's "revenge" term. He's dedicated to dismantling democracy and looting the treasury.
wolfie001
(5,949 posts)White women don't dream of having big families anymore. Not for the last 50 years. On average of course. I think he may be alarmed at the growing number and % of brown people. It may bother him. Graham Hancock and his pseudoarcheology is another example of this type of rhetoric/thinking. The "great white race" must have discovered metallurgy and irrigation 12,000 years ago. His books and talks on "Atlantis" which of course is total BS. Just a few thoughts to throw out there.
Marie Marie
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