{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/06/30/chairman-johnson-requests-information-from-medical-journal-on-removal-of-article-on-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-and-vaccines/", "Chairman\u00a0Johnson Requests Information from Medical Journal on Removal of Article on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Vaccines", "2026-06-30", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 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 \u201cVaccines and sudden infant death: An analysis of the VAERS database 1990-2019 and review of the medical literature.\u201d\n\nMiller\u2019s 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.\n\nChairman Johnson\u2019s letter follows Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s June 11, 2026 letter to the journal regarding the removal of Miller\u2019s article.\n\n\u201cThe 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,\u201d Chairman Johnson wrote.\n\n\u201cWe owe it to \u2026 all parents that have lost a child to SIDS to encourage and promote\u2014instead of discourage and remove\u2014medical research into the potential connection between vaccines and pediatric deaths,\u201d Chairman Johnson concluded.\n\nRead more about the chairman\u2019s letter in The Defender.\n\nFull text of the letter can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-01T06:34:07Z", "2026-07-01T06:35:35Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/06/30/chairman-johnson-requests-information-from-medical-journal-on-removal-of-article-on-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-and-vaccines/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8425870910286903, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}