Medical journal bucks RFK, refuses to retract Danish vaccine study

The editor-in-chief of the Annals of Internal Medicine said she sees “no reason” to retract the publication of a Danish study that found no evidence of aluminum ingredients in vaccines posing a health risk. 

Reuters was the first to report the news. 

The call to retract the research came from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy wrote an opinion piece on TrialSite News calling the study—which analyzed records on 1.2 million children over two decades—a “deceitful propaganda stunt by the pharmaceutical industry.”

He went on to accuse the researchers of deploying unscientific methodology “designed” not to find evidence of substantial allergy, autism or autoimmune disease.  He called on the Annals of Internal Medicine to pull it from publication and to print a retraction. 

However, in an interview with Reuters, Christine Laine, MD, editor-in-chief of the journal, declined to do so, adding that she will not be responding to Kennedy directly, as he did not publish his op-ed in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

One of Kennedy’s criticisms centered around the lack of an unvaccinated control group. However, the lead author of the study, Anders Peter Hviid, said that’s only because less than 2% of all children in Denmark are unvaccinated, meaning there’s no way to put a statistically meaningful control in place. 

He defended the methodology of the study, which was funded by the Danish government. 

Reuters added that there is a media report on Kennedy’s plans to have HHS officially review the safety and efficacy of vaccines that contain aluminum, something he has long been a critic of. 

The study, “Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood,” can be found by clicking here. 

The full report from Reuters is available at the link below.