Vaccines Marketed by Stoking Fear of Disease
Story Highlights The marketing of vaccines is one of the most aggressive public health policies today. The most common marketing strategy used by stakeholders to promote vaccines is to create a culture that fears disease. Fear-based marketing generates vaccine demand and calls into question ethical standards in journalism. One of the most visible and aggressive […]
A Scientist’s Rebuttal to the Danish Cohort Study
The MMR vaccine study recently published by Hviid et al. (2019, Annals of Internal Medicine)1 entitled, “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study,” leaves many more serious questions than definitive answers. The authors claim that their work, “strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, […]
Measles is Not Ebola and There Are No Such Things as Zombies
My, how time has changed society’s perception of measles. When you read today’s headlines about the number of reported cases of measles in New York, Oregon, Washington and other states in the United States, you would think we’re talking about Ebola. It seems like every newspaper, magazine and television news program is reporting on measles […]
White, College-Educated, ‘Whole Foods Moms’ Deemed the Enemy
Opinion | If you are someone who has questions about the safety of vaccines or the wisdom of giving so many vaccines at one time and over the course of a lifetime, or if you question the ethics of forced vaccination laws that deny the right to informed consent to vaccine risk taking, or if […]
Healer or Dealer: Who to Blame for the Opioid Crisis in the U.S.?
The opioid crisis in the U.S. has reached the point where the Drug Enforcement Administration itself says it should be doing a better job. The United States continues to be affected by a national opioid epidemic which has been spurred, in part, by the rise of opioid prescribing and misuse. The DEA can and must […]
No, You Don’t Have a “Right” to Demand That Others are Vaccinated
It’s hard to think of a more fundamental right than the right to determine what happens to one’s own body. Forcing someone to undergo medical treatment against their will violates this most basic of rights—the right to be free from physical assault. Yet even some libertarians1 have jumped on the mandatory vaccination bandwagon, arguing that one person […]