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Professor Giulio Tarro, MD, PhD
President of Teresa & Luigi De Beaumont Bonelli
Foundation for cancer research
As a doctor and as a pupil of Albert Sabin, a renowned virologist, my initial attitude towards the risks asso-ciated with vaccination was aligned with official Science — a price that was painful but still needs to be paid to advance medicine and human welfare. Then, through studying the trend of the epidemic in relation to the supposed benefits of vaccines, analyzing some clinical cases and — last but not least — being part of the Italian National Bioethics Committee (which has drawn up its certainly most famous report in 1995), I developed a set of beliefs that led me here. However, in this report, I shall not address the scientific aspects and doctors who have blunted the pretense of the so-called scientific and medical community, to entrust the defeat of any infectious disease by vaccination. Instead I wish to focus on some issues which I hope will enrich the interesting debate that will certainly be raised by the reports that follow.