No grievance regarding vaccines is more serious than vaccine-injury. A mere possibility of vaccine-injury is insidious: what is meant to be a prophylactic life-saving procedure performed on a healthy recipient may end in his or her serious injury or death.

It's easy for medicine and public health to remain silent about or minimize the perception of vaccine injury. As pediatrician Dr. Robert Sears discussed in a public talk, the very idea of vaccine-injury is a hard one for doctors and public health specialists to accept, therefore, out of a need to protect their collective ego identity, the default position of the medical profession is denial of vaccine-injury.

However, the public health authorities' approach to vaccine-injury is a two-faced one. While it acknowledges that vaccine-injury can happen, but, in the same breath, it proclaims "vaccine injury is very rare" and "vaccines are safe and effective." The same doctors tasked with giving vaccines parrot the same talking points.

First and foremost, vaccine-injury is indeed real. The United States Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, a program run by the federal government which compensates those injured by vaccines has so far has paid out over $4.4 billion.

Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that vaccine injuries are systematically undercounted. A CDC-funded study "Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System" done in 2007 by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care estimated that fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries are reported to VAERS.