Not all of the vaccines licensed in the United States were tested against placebos, vaccine inventor Dr. Paul Offit has acknowledged.
Offit, who helped invent the rotavirus vaccine and co-authors a regularly updated tome on vaccines, recently claimed that the vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are tested in placebo-controlled trials.
“All vaccines are tested in placebo-controlled trials before licensure,” Offit wrote in a June 22 Substack post, addressing statements made by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a podcast. Offit also said on Twitter that all vaccines are tested in trials against “immunologically inert” controls. He did not provide citations….