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Nuremberg Code Vaccines
About Nuremberg Code Vaccines
The Nuremberg Code, established after the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctors in 1947, set principles for medical ethics including informed consent. Anti vaccine activists frequently cite the Nuremberg Code to argue that vaccine mandates violate medical ethics. These arguments misrepresent the Code, which addresses forced medical experimentation, not voluntary public health measures. Vaccines undergo extensive clinical trials with informed consent before authorization. Post authorization safety monitoring continues. The misappropriation of the Nuremberg Code by anti vaccine groups is a form of misinformation that exploits public memory of Nazi atrocities. Medical ethicists and historians have explicitly rejected the comparison. The analogy between vaccine mandates and Nazi experiments has been widely criticized as misleading.
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