Dr. Maurice Hilleman was, the leading vaccine pioneer in the
history of vaccines. He developed more than three dozen
vaccines—more than any other scientist in history—and was the
developer of Merck's vaccine program. Dr. Hilleman was chief of
the Department of Respiratory Diseases with what's now the
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, he discovered the
genetic changes that occur when the influenza virus mutates,
known as shift and drift. He was also one of the early vaccine
pioneers to warn about the possibility that simian viruses might
contaminate vaccines.So Dr. Hilleman knew what he was talking
about. And in his own words, "vaccines have to be considered the
bargain basement technology for the 20th Century." Merck
virologists Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski claimed in
their unsealed 2010 complaint that they "witnessed firsthand the
improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged
to artificially inflate the vaccine's efficacy findings." After
a two year investigation the Justice De