Today, I’m thrilled to introduce a groundbreaking initiative: the Vaccine Safety Database. This open-source project is more than just a repository—it’s a mission to foster transparency, collaboration, and a single source of verifiable, challengeable truth.
Why Now?
In a world awash with junk science, echo chambers of peer-reviewed consensus, and the heavy influence of Big Pharma on journals and research, the Vaccine Safety Database stands as a beacon of truth and transparency. Our structured, publicly accessible data on vaccine ingredients, brands, and formulations is designed to empower families, researchers, and advocates alike. Each entry is tracked with a transparent chain of changes, ensuring accountability and continuous improvement—a hallmark of open-source excellence.
But here’s the real game-changer: the VSD isn’t just a theoretical tool. It’s like an x-ray into the hidden ingredients and unseen risks of vaccines. It brings order to the chaos—package inserts that are barely readable, websites that fail to cite sources, and a flood of inconsistent information. By extracting this data from VaxCalc and making it open-source, we’re empowering others to uncover truths and innovate with clarity and precision. ✌️❤️✌️
Why Open Source?
Open source powers 79.1% of the Internet, driving everything from critical infrastructure to the applications we use daily. The real gold standard of science is engineering—not peer review. The question is simple: can you build it, and does it work? We will be applying that question to everything related to vaccination, all the way from individual ingredients to full-blown schedules. Open source exemplifies this principle by demonstrating the power of collaboration and real-world testing.
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Ruby on Rails, famously described open source as a freely given gift that you want to share with the world. By sharing his work openly, he challenged dominant software paradigms of murky complexity and empowered countless developers to build robust, scalable applications. (VaxCalc itself is built upon his work.) Similarly, the Vaccine Safety Database invites contributors to collaboratively construct a transparent, effective resource—one that works for everyone and can withstand scrutiny from all sides.
What’s Inside?
The database features:
- A comprehensive list of vaccine ingredients and their purposes.
- Detailed formulations of vaccines by type and approval date.
- Links to US government-funded research and curated scientific studies providing direct evidence that exposure to specific chemicals can cause certain diseases, as identified and categorized by the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database.
Fostering Innovation
Another major goal of the Vaccine Safety Database is to foster innovation. By making structured data openly available, anyone can take and use it however they see fit—whether for groundbreaking research, new applications, or entirely unforeseen uses. And because this project is open source, any attempt by Big Pharma or other entities to manipulate or distort the data will be permanently recorded in our transparent commit history. They will find themselves forever chained to the public ledger of accountability—a level of scrutiny that ensures integrity and trust.
How You Can Help
This is just the beginning. The Vaccine Safety Database thrives on community contributions. Whether you’re a researcher, a developer, or someone passionate about vaccine safety, we invite you to contribute by improving data accuracy, suggesting new features, or sharing insights. Together, we can build a resource that changes lives.
Visit the Vaccine Safety Database project on GitHub, the largest open-source software repository, to explore, contribute, or simply learn more. Let’s create something extraordinary—together.
