US government oversight reports only, other opinion stripped.

[proverbialwisdom]

..In recent years a series of studies by Federal Investigators and Congressional committees, have issued scathing reports highlighting the dire conflicts of interest at CDC’s vaccine and research divisions.

A 2000 report by the Government Reform Committee entitled “Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making” identified a long inventory of corrupt financial ties between regulators and vaccine makers in FDA and CDC’s vaccine programs that are diverting the agency from its task of safeguarding public health. A 2007 US Senate investigation by Senator Tom Coburn, “CDC Off Center” found widespread corruption and mismanagement at CDC’s vaccine programs (Coburn, CDC Off Center, 2007). In 2008 an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General (IG) of HHS found that 97% of Special Government Advisors on committees in the CDC vaccine program failed to disclose necessary information about conflicts of interest (Levinson, 2008). Those findings prompted a series of criminal investigations. In March 2014 the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), Director, David Wright, quit his job issuing a searing letter claiming pervasive scientific misconduct in biomedical research at CDC, the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Public Health Service (PHS) all part of HHS which he characterized as “a remarkably dysfunctional bureaucracy.” (Wright, 2014)

There is no evidence that CDC has moved to adopt the recommendations of these reports or to cure its problems in the vaccine division.

SOURCE: Google it

LINKS ABOVE (open format):

2000 report by the Government Reform Committee entitled “Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making”: http://www.ouralexander.org/vaccines.doc

2007 US Senate investigation by Senator Tom Coburn, “CDC Off Center”: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/cdc_off_center.pdf

2008 investigation by the Office of the Inspector General (IG) of HHS "NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH" (Levinson, 2008): https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-03-06-00460.pdf

March 2014 the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), Director, David Wright, resignation letter: http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/03/top-u.s.-scientific-misconduct-official-quits-frustration-bureaucracy

ASIDE: http://ori.hhs.gov/meet-directors
David Wright vs successor Don Wright (confusing) US Office of Research Integrity

[GoneFishin]

1. I have regulatory agency capture fatigue. Multinationals run all of the agencies which supposedly

oversee them. At this point I am way more surprised when an agency actually does it's job, rather than the other way around.