Chairman Johnson Requests Information From Medical Journal on Removal of Article on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Vaccines
WASHINGTON – On Monday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote to the journal Toxicology Reports and its owner, Elsevier, requesting documents explaining their decision to remove a previously published article by Neil Z. Miller titled “Vaccines and sudden infant death: An analysis of the VAERS database 1990-2019 and review of the medical literature.”
Miller’s article, which discussed the potential connection between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and vaccines, had been published and was publicly available online for five years before Toxicology Reports removed it on April 9, 2026. The removal was reportedly driven by comments on X and PubPeer, raising concerns about the article.
Chairman Johnson’s letter follows Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s June 11, 2026 letter to the journal regarding the removal of Miller’s article.
“The decision to remove this peer-reviewed article five years after the article was first published raises questions about the integrity of the scientific review process at the journal,” Chairman Johnson wrote.
“We owe it to … all parents that have lost a child to SIDS to encourage and promote—instead of discourage and remove—medical research into the potential connection between vaccines and pediatric deaths,” Chairman Johnson concluded.
Read more about the chairman’s letter in The Defender.
Full text of the letter can be found here.
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