The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing yesterday on vaccinations, and as the conservative Washington Times noted , the panel’s members delivered “a bipartisan show of unity” on the subject. That’s true, though there was a striking exception.

, a rear admiral for the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked Schuchat a series of direct and important questions:

Among the witnesses was

“Is there any scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism?”





“Is there any scientific evidence that vaccines cause ‘profound mental disorders’?”





“Is there any scientific evidence that vaccines have contributed to the rise in allergies or auto-immune disorders among kids?”





“Are there additives or preservatives in vaccines that can be toxic to kids?”





“Is there any scientific evidence that giving kids their vaccines further apart or spacing them differently is healthier for kids?”

