"inactive" ingredients in medications can and do make people sick

A premier science journal, Science Translational Medicine, pointed out that extraneous substances in medications can and do make people sick--in an article written by scientists at MIT and published March 13, 2019. 

Why would anyone assume the same is not true of vaccines?

“Inactive” ingredients in oral medications

1.     Daniel Reker1,2,3,*, 

2.     Steven M. Blum1,4,5,*, 

3.     Christoph Steiger1,2,3, 

4.     Kevin E. Anger4, 

5.     Jamie M. Sommer6, 

6.     John Fanikos6 and 

7.     Giovanni Traverso1,2,3,4,7,†

Science Translational Medicine  13 Mar 2019:
Vol. 11, Issue 483, eaau6753
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aau6753

Abstract

Oral forms of medications contain “inactive” ingredients to enhance their physical properties. Using data analytics, we characterized the abundance and complexity of inactive ingredients in approved medications. A majority of medications contain ingredients that could cause adverse reactions, underscoring the need to maximize the tolerability and safety of medications and their inactive ingredients.