Dr. Andrew Wakefield: Vaccines have never been subjected to safety studies

"When you take a pharmaceutical agent in the US for example it goes through years of, literally sort of 10, 15 years of trials...before it's deemed to be safe. And yet with vaccines that doesn't apply. They're classified as biologics and the bar is set very much lower safety. And so for the childhood vaccines there has never been a proper long term placebo controlled randomized trial of safety and therefore it is deceptive, entirely deceptive to say that these vaccines are safe. They're not because they've never been subjected to the appropriate safety studies.
And people need to know that. People need to realize that it just has not been done. And it's too late to close the gate, the horse has bolted. The vaccine safety studies are very difficult to do now, certainly prospectively."