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Human studies are not allowed How about this one showing autism caused in monkies by US vaccination schedule.
Don’t you find it strange that vaccinations fall under “settled science”, instead of actual studies?

Where in the world do you get the idea that vaccines are not tested in humans? Oh, nevermind--I know. Those anti-vax websites, whose knowledge of how drugs (including vaccines) are tested pre-clinically and clinically is as non-existent as their knowledge of the basic science of immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, physiology, etc. I'm guessing that your notion that vaccines are "settled science" rather than a topic that is under active study also comes from those shady anti-vax websites.

If you want to see the results of vaccine studies that have been completed, go to www.pubmed.org and type in your search phrases--disease name, vaccine, countermeasure, etc. If you want to see studies that are underway, or see how past studies were designed, go to www.clinicaltrials.gov and type in search phrases. You can often find data on how the studies are going at the clinical trials website. You notice that I do not tell you specific search phrases--because if I say to look for something specific, I am trying to control which information you see, and I don't want to do that.

The reality--which does not match the conspiracies pushed by anti-vax websites--is that it takes a minimum of ten years for a drug to be tested in clinical trials and for the company developing the drug to amass sufficient data to present to the FDA in support of marketing approval. Before the drug can be tested in humans, it has to have solid animal data supporting further testing in humans. Phase 1 testing tests safety by administering the drug to a few dozen up to a hundred or so patients to determine its safety. Phase 2 is the dose-finding stage, where different formulations of the drug are administered and the results compared. This phase tests the drug in a few hundred patients. Phase 3, the efficacy phase, tests the drug in thousands of patients to determine how well it works. In order to seek approval for use in specific patients, the drug must be tested in those patients. For example, a vaccine meant for pediatric use must be tested in children in the appropriate age group. Etc. Bringing a new vaccine to market is a complicated, time-consuming process--very unlike the bilge the anti-vax websites tell you to try to convince you to not vaccinate your children.

People who actually understand how vaccines work get themselves and their children vaccinated.

Just keep in mind that anti-vaxxery is an invention of the left--the people who do not want children to receive vaccines or medical care because their fear of overpopulation is greater than any compassion they might have towards other human beings. They want children to die.