Exhibit 008 ยท Journalism citing trial record
Placebo-controlled trials in the vaccine record
The polio vaccine field trials of 1954 included more than 600,000 children randomly assigned to get either the new vaccine or a placebo.
Science News, citing Susan Ellenberg, reports that the 1954 polio vaccine field trials included more than 600,000 children randomly assigned to receive either the new vaccine or a placebo. The article names polio, measles and chickenpox as childhood vaccines tested against placebos and says HPV vaccines were compared with hepatitis vaccines, an active control.
- Source
- Science News (with Paul Offit and Susan Ellenberg)
- Date
- 2025
- Quoted from
- Article of 14 May 2025, near the end of the section on the history of placebo trials (Susan Ellenberg)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hhs-cdc-fda-vaccine-test-placebo-safety
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit