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In 1986, Congress passed, and President Ronald Reagan signed into law, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which granted vaccine manufacturers immunity from lawsuits alleging vaccine injuries or deaths. An administrative system of Vaccine Courts was established under the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to process any claims of injuries, but these panels were just a thin veneer slapped onto the legislation to ensure that all such claims would end up in a cul-de-sac with little or no recompense. In fact, two-thirds of all vaccine-injury claims submitted to these “courts” are denied. And, yet, even with that major hurdle, in the several decades since the vaccine courts were established, over $5 billion in awards have been paid to vaccine-injured claimants.
But that’s not all. Lawsuit immunity greatly encouraged vaccine manufacturers to develop and market an increasing number of vaccines. Unsurprisingly, when you make any commodity “liability free” to manufacturers, it will quite naturally encourage more production and marketing of that commodity without the proper safety studies. After all, why the need for diligent care when you cannot be sued if anything goes wrong?
So, from the 1950s, when children received only 2-3 vaccinations until 1980, when children got 8 shots, after 1986, the vaccine tally ballooned up to 49 doses of 14 vaccines by the age of six in 2012! Of course, it didn’t hurt this growth industry at all that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) placed some 70 vaccines on its ‘recommended” list, or that as of 2017 the CDC itself had become a drug company holding at least 20 patents for various vaccine developments, manufacturing, delivery, adjuvants. Not coincidentally, the number of vaccine injured also exploded as well.
Monsanto/Bayer Battered by Lawsuits
Without the shelter from liability that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 affords vaccine manufacturers, big agricultural corporations like Monsanto (now Bayer) that literally spread glyphosate poisons far and wide across the Globe have had to continually look over their shoulders in fear of litigation. The large litigation reserves on company balance sheets, which have increased with every year from 2014-2017, attest to this. So, given the extremely toxic nature of glyphosate, it was inevitable, then, that lawsuits would be filed against Monsanto and others for the serious harms wreaked by Roundup®. |
