"If the government believes in evidence-based science can it really remain indifferent to the fact that some of its funds are used to promote quackery and mumbo-jumbo and call it science, " he continued.
The consent judgment issued by a U.S. District Court in New York is the result of a lawsuit filed by the NRDC in 2010 in an attempt to achieve through litigation what it could not achieve through science-based evidence.
Given the stark evidence of how vaccines save lives, any hearing with a Congressional imprimatur should especially involve careful, science-based consideration of public health issues.