Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying draconian policies implemented by governments around the world, there has been an acceleration in the growth of public concerns and skepticism over forced vaccination and the safety of vaccines. Much of this has been fueled by a new crop of medical doctors and scientists who have taken cues from the COVID era vaccination missteps of politicians in partnership with the public health, medical, and pharmaceutical industries to revisit the traditional assumptions surrounding vaccines in general.
These physicians, public health professionals, and researchers have become the latest heralds and prophets warning that all may not be well within the science of vaccination and perhaps hasn’t been for a very long time. Their eyes have apparently been opened to the possibility that what they thought to be true in this area of modern medicine is not so black and white after all.
The reality is that the ballgame started many innings ago. Yes, way before RFK, Jr. picked up a bat. Yes, before Joe Rogan came along and started giving airtime to the contrarians. Before Dr. McCullough and Dr. Malone and Dr. Ladapo. Before Frontline Doctors. Before Del. Before the well-produced Vaxxed movies. Yes, even before Andy Wakefield and so many countless other latecomers.
The DPT Campaign
In the modern age, on the issue of vaccine safety and informed consent rights with regard to vaccination, the struggle began in 1982 with the establishment of the Dissatisfied Parents Together (DPT) parent-led charity, which launched a national campaign against vaccine mandates led by Barbara Loe Fisher. By the late-1980s, the group, which successfully lobbied to get the crude whole cell pertussis vaccine in DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) replaced in 1996 with the less reactive acellular pertussis vaccine in DTaP, had evolved into the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).1
The DPT campaign was followed up in 1985 with the publication of Fisher and Harris L. Coulter’s seminal book DPT: A Shot in the Dark. The book, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, traced the development of the DPT vaccine, provided case studies of injuries and deaths caused by the shot, and critiqued the system of mandatory vaccination.2 3
In 1986, the DPT campaign organized the first public protest at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta calling for a safer pertussis vaccine and more accurate reporting of vaccine reactions. Later that same year, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which was an historic acknowledgment by government that federally recommended and state mandated vaccines can cause injury and death. Fisher has stated that, for the first time, preventing vaccine injuries and deaths was elevated to a national priority in a federal law.3 4
In 2023, acknowledging NVIC’s fifth decade of defending autonomy and protection of bodily integrity with regard to vaccination and other medical interventions, Fisher wrote:
The modern vaccine safety and informed consent movement opposing mandatory vaccination laws launched by parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982 has changed the course of medical history.3
While the history of vaccine policy and science continues to evolve, it should not be minimized or forgotten that this history spans much farther back than just the past few years. While there has been an awful lot of change and new public awareness packed into the years since COVID, much of this has been facilitated by a select few who came along with the early foresight, wisdom, courage, and energy half a century ago.5
The Quest for “Health Freedom” Ain’t New
The so-called “health freedom movement” is considered a relatively new phenomenon, viewed largely as a reaction to COVID vaccination policies, as is the saying, “your body, your choice.” Case in point… A 2022 article by Davey Alba in The New York Times noted:
The phrase “your body, your choice” emerged as a central rallying cry for bodily autonomy and medical freedom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Robert Malone—a scientist known for his early contributions to mRNA research—famously championed this concept, positioning himself as a leading critic of government-imposed vaccine mandates…6
But there really isn’t anything remotely recent about this. After all, what more represents the legacy of Barbara Loe Fisher than watching her looking into the camera and saying, “It’s your health, your family, your choice.” It has been a recurring, underlying theme of nearly every article written by her for decades, as well as every video commentary recorded by her, every speech given by her, and every interview with her.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
It was fascinating to witness during COVID how so many of the things about which Fisher had long ruminated and warned with respect to forced vaccination, censorship, travel and assembly restrictions, and other violations of basic civil and human rights actually came true. Who would’ve thought we would sink so low?
The warning bell she began ringing decades ago remains one we should take seriously:
If the state can tag, track down and force individuals to be injected with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, then there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the state can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.4
It’s good to have all the Johnny-come-latelies. Welcome. Better late than never.
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Click here to view References:1 Reich JA. When the Personal is Political—and Infectious. Sage Journals 17(3).
2 Coulter HL, Fisher BL. A Shot in the Dark by Coulter, Harris L., Fisher, Barbara Loe (1991) Paperback. Amazon.
3 Fisher BL. NVIC Enters its Fifth Decade Defending Autonomy and Protection of Bodily Integrity. National Vaccine Information Center Apr. 19, 2023.
4 Fisher BL. Witnessing The Vaccine Injury Epidemic. National Vaccine Information Center Nov. 19, 2019.
5 Fisher BL. Opening Statement. Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum Workshop on Risk Communication and Vaccination. May 13, 1996.
6 Alba D. The Latest Covid Misinformation Czar Says He Invented the Vaccines. The New York Times Apr. 3, 2022.
7 Fisher BL. It Is Time to Declare Our Independence from the Vaccinators. National Vaccine Information Center June 29, 2023.
8 Fisher BL. Moral Right to Vaccine Exemptions. National Vaccine Information Center May 2, 1997.
9 Fisher BL. Repeal Mandatory Vaccination Laws: There Are No Exemptions to Informed Consent. National Vaccine Information Center Aug. 27, 2025.
10 Fisher BL. Smallpox and Forced Vaccination: What Every American Needs to Know. National Vaccine Information Center Dec. 21, 2002.
11 Fisher BL. The Health Liberty Revolution to Save Our Children. National Vaccine Information Center Oct. 28, 2015.
12 Fisher BL. The Vaccine Culture War in America: Are You Ready? National Vaccine Information Center Mar. 18, 2015.
13 Fisher BL. The Vaccine Reaction – March 1995. National Vaccine Information Center Mar. 1, 1995.
14 Fisher BL. Vaccination: Defending Your Right to Know and Freedom to Choose. National Vaccine Information Center Nov. 3, 2014.
15 Fisher BL. Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring. National Vaccine Information Center June 29, 2011.
12 Responses
Very interesting and valuable news – thanks for sharing. I am aged 81 and very healthy and of course I am a jabbie dodger!! Lol
If any (dubious) ingredients were introduced into a ‘consenting’ human, designed (we are told) to help improve our immune systems and stop us ‘catching’ any germs or viruses etc. (Pasteur lies again and again …) then a capsule or pill given ORALLY is the obvious way to do that. Injecting any strange substances into the body bypasses the body’s natural defence mechanism and if the public were told the truth that minus toxins, heavy metals and with copious amounts of unconditional self love, we are powerful beings and our bodies create symptoms to connect with the conscious mind to relay important messages.
(Check out the brilliant book by Deb. Shapiro – THE BODY SPEAKS THE MIND.’) All my allergies disappeared after I had 16 nasty mercury amalgam dental fillings replaced safely and then I de-toxed for 6 months using herbal and homeopathic meds. (like the English Royals have always had !!!) There has been shocking attacks on our health for over 150 years – especially engineered by the Rockefeller created allopathic medical industry, which is so linked to big ‘HARMA-PHARMA.’ (What word is hidden in ‘pharmaceutical???’ ….HARM!!) That’s all for now and I have a wealth of excellent books to recommend if you lovely folk are interested.
Hold on. That is interesting. Let’s check the word origin out.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/pharmaceutical
Holy smokes she’s right! Wow. I’m stunned. That’s um, well, something else.
Safe AND effective.
This sounds like NVIC with a chip on its shoulder, complaining (without saying) that your organization is, unfortunately, nearly irrelevant today. Surpassed by deeper-digging, more aggressive, faster-moving people.
I would think you’d be grateful that your early understanding has become common knowledge.
Well you’ve obviously never looked into the NVIC resources. The member section is full of everything from detailed individual state by state opt out procedures, instructions how to navigate, policies, to comprehensive individual breakdowns of every disease behind every vaccination to help educate people that they don’t actually need vaccines for any of those. And much more!
We said no to vaccines and we meant it. End of story. No amount of slander or badgering will change this. I hereby declare your comment to be irrelevant instead. How about that?
In fact, the idea of “your body, your choice” did not originate with Fisher: in demonstrations as early as 1970, during the (first) reproductive rights movement, the rallying cry was “my body, my choice”.
Hear! Hear! BLF is the G.O.A.T. She blazed the trail that others follow. All those Johnny-come-latelies stand on her shoulders. They all owe her a huge debt of gratitude and R.E.S.P.E.C.T. We all do!
Yes! Go Barbara! It’s your birthday. Go Barbara! Thank you so much.
We could have never made it through school and understood our rights without NVIC. Their dedicated efforts and activist call to action emails really do make a difference. Although Colorado lost some ground as we have to take this ridiculous propaganda fear monger why you need vaccines online class every single damned year in order to file the opt out, at least we still have the opt out. The state had proposed eliminating opt outs entirely and had then proposed a mandated in person re education class to brow beat parents into submission personally. Policy for sale, as usual.
When NVIC sent Colorado parents the notification legislature was trying to run these changes through under the radar, we mobilized and wrote a lot of letters. I told those politicians off but good. That they are the criminals and double dare them to require me to go to gd Denver to take this class over and over. That I’d flyer the entire neighborhood with vaccine warning content and would talk right over their fake instructor and get every single person in that room organized and better educated every last time they tried to run me around. I copied frigging everyone. Try it! Try me!
Don’t you know it, the program and proposal changed last minute to be some lame online class with a one page form. Those bozo’s. The class is idiotic and if you take it with firefox you can click through the entire thing in two minutes flat and beat the timers. The state keeps playing games and moves the web landing links so one has to sometimes hunt down the actual site. Better to just save the form for future re use.
Every year we hand the school people the opt out paper. We even play games back and don’t volunteer this on enrollment or even turn it in on time. We wait for the beaurocracy of the public school and at some point usually mid year they send out threatening letters of ‘mandatory vaccination deadline’ with all these lame threats about participation and being taken out of school and class, etc, etc. That’s when we turn in the form in person during hours on the final day. Stupid fake nurses usually does not even care or even say anything, although they sometimes sigh a disappointing sound, to which we respond with a big smile. They’re dialing it in like the rest, they don’t actually care about the kids or the vaccinations. They play along to keep their jobs and are scared to death of peer pressure. They don’t say a thing because they know they have no real authority over us and the ‘mandate’ talk is one big illusion anyways. Adventures in opting out.
NOTHING has been learned by anyone who waved it around earlier
However, hopefully the public has grown to appreciate how THEY LIED
and continue to LIE
There will never be accountability as it was and still is all about
GREED
and
insatiable NEED for control
NVIC group dealt with real world consequences of real world practices, and turned this into effective activism with a positive outcome in our modern day, at the time. They continue to this day with meaningful reform efforts which we appreciate.
Sincere thanks for the NVIC opt out navigation tools which allowed us to utilize exemptions that basically everyone we talked to refused to acknowledge or help us navigate the process. All we ever got from the establishment or schools was fear mongering instead of truth or free will choices.
How to simplify complex decision making challenges; First identify if people are offering you a choice at all, or if they are using heavy handed methods to force your participation. In a free society, you always have a choice. The moment anyone attempts to take that liberty of choice away from you, is when resistance becomes your duty. Regardless of the topic matter or nature of the choice; If the free will to make the choice is denied, we automatically object. Because we are free people with inalienable rights bestowed by our creator.
Repeat a lie long enough, often enough, the misinformation becomes truth to the masses. It is true irony when the misinformed whom have lived their entire lives subjected to the informational censorship and dogmatic pro vaccine propaganda, cast stones and call those whom are contrarians to the dogma; as the ones spreading disinformation. Their entire belief and character identity around these matters is in fact based on pro vaccination disinformation and propaganda that has been continually disseminated around the world for more than two centuries.
In our hubris, humans more often than not embrace dogma as a form of easily available self confidence and assurance, also more commonly described as herd mentality or learned cognitive dissonance. In the case of their attempted journalism as mentioned in the article, they are often victims of their own devices, and can never get quite get to the truth of the matter with their research. A consequence of the long term censorship and dismissal of contrarian voices. They exist in the informational lock down zone. Continued examples of the principal that one whom reads news all day long, is likely less informed than one whom simply reads no news at all. Learn to discern. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
The more pertinent conversation should revolve around learned behaviors and what disease is and is not in the natural man, in the natural world. Unfortunately most people deal with a never ending flow of medicinal and insurance industry dogma and propaganda, pro vaccine disinformation, and concerted malicious slander campaigns to anyone whom does not play along. This has long since become an institutional problem which has become self perpetuating.
‘Modern medicine’ and associated insurance and health care practice have been among the most powerful and profitable industries for centuries. They rose to power alongside banking as premier authoritarians whom heavy handily shaped much of our culture and belief systems. Only centuries later is their growth apparently hindered. As one may ponder in a market sense of free will, supply and demand principals, of free peoples; the market has become over saturated with their products and solicitation, people have grown weary of continued support. The popular reverse slander of the industry is that one becomes a danger to public health if they do not continue to support for profit health care models. Who’s still buying that? The notion of public health is a fallacy, there is only individual health. We made the conscious decision; not to buy what they’re selling. For good reason, this nepotistic program has gone completely off the rails and devolved into something where illness is purposefully imposed on the masses to create profit harvesting. It’s hardly ‘medicine’ anymore. (thank you Health Ranger Mike Adams! Can’t forget about Mike if we’re mentioning so many other big names.)
The real problem is the centuries long practice of censoring voices and opinions of those whom would not support the for profit pharmasuetical model. There are countless stories of persons from the past having taken similar positions in their day. As well as a never ending sequence of ‘rediscovered history’ surrounding homeopathic medicine and alternative practice which did not revolve around a paid cost for profit healthcare model. Some examples.
Ghandi 1920’s. The elements are the human condition. This piece has such great content it’s worth a link, but with a special disclaimer this piece also illustrates cognitive dissonance as the author could not help but also improperly associate some quotes with a supposed regret he did not support vaccinations. There is the propaganda again, it dates back to before any of us were born. Yet Ghandi’s message about natural health is so polar opposite, it’s nearly impossible to effectively morph the message into a modern medicine type of dogma. Filth. Learn to recognize it because it pervades hospitals and care centers. A sea of chemicals and dearth of fresh air, artificial lighting. It’s why we avoid hospitals for nearly everything except major issues where we need the benefit of the modern practice such as broken bones, xrays, a surgery, etc. For your every day care and every day health, stay the hell away from those places. Don’t let them inject that directly into your blood! For heavens sakes. Again; challenging the base structure of belief systems and learned behavior and trained behavior. Recognize you’ve been trained, then retrain yourself.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/26525/did-gandhi-call-vaccination-a-barbarous-practice
HFDF has an interesting series on the history of medicines. There are so many excellent research pieces here, hard to recommend only one. Check out the ebola series, and the multi writing pieces of ‘the history of medicine.’ Modern medicine is built upon a mountain of lies and disinformation itself. There is always a man behind the curtain. HFDF deserves serious positive recognition. They took the NVIC effort next level and through their activism have actually put new laws on the books in several states, and hopefully more to come that; It is illegal to discriminate or deny access to people whom do not take vaccines. They did not just carve out exceptions or exemptions. They made a new law of the land that is a polar opposite contrast to centuries of pro industrial medicinal complex dogma. Discriminate against non vaccinated people, you go to jail and get fined instead. NVIC should please seriously consider more active partnerships with this group. HFDF built upon NVIC’s work. Proof positive we’re really getting somewhere now.
https://thehfdf.substack.com/p/a-peoples-history-of-medicine-fa5
https://thehfdf.substack.com/p/a-peoples-history-of-medicine-6b1
There are other harder to find accounts on X and other platforms which dive into the 1800’s writings and initial arguments among physicians and collegiate at the time. I have collected and saved many of the images and scans of writings pertaining to vaccination debate at the time. We’ve all seen the comparative timeline charts which associate undeniable correlations with the rise of hygienic practices with the supposed success of vaccines and reduction in quote unquote communicable disease. There are other just as compelling comparisons which also point to the use of ddt and other chemicals as causing disease uptick. As well as history so uncomfortable it’s generally never talked about anymore, such as how the pervasive use of child labor in industrial settings, from very young ages was common practice and contributed to higher statistical disease; when that practice stopped, communicable disease declined sharply, only for the pharmasuetical industry to claim credit for this, primarily via vaccination propaganda.
The ‘health freedom movement’. Call it what you like. Everyone in the space is doing something, accomplishing small goals which cumulatively make a real difference. We’re not vaccine hesitant. No amount of propaganda or double talk will get us to adopt that position. We said no to vaccines and we meant it. No exceptions. We’re not accepting vaccine passports or any other health passport either. No exceptions. We’re not going to ruled by authoritarian tyrants whom seek control of our lives and our behavior, the technocrats. NO EXCEPTIONS. I’m about to turn into John Conner and quote John Patrick Henry up in here. Fiction jumped straight off the page and is actual reality now. “We marched head strong into the future. Then we stopped and turned right the hell around without a second thought or moment of hesitation.”
That my friends is the voice of liberty. Live your life free of their influence and dogma. Everybody lives and everybody dies through the journey called life. You’re going to be o.k. Have faith. Simple things are good things. Godspeed and thank you to the author Marco for a very interesting piece and thank you NVIC supporters and readers whom take the time to participate here in this space. Please share. Thank you.
“These physicians, public health professionals, and researchers have become the latest heralds and prophets warning that all may not be well within the science of vaccination and perhaps hasn’t been for a very long time.” A very long time? Try for over 200 years! Long overdue wake up call by the majority instead of we few.
So many people have been harmed or killed by vaccines. I, for one, reacted badly to the OPV and DPT in1963 and have paid the price since then with a lifetime of autoimmune diseases. It has been a real crap journey. The criminal elements involved in this industry should be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity and prosecuted to the extent of the law just as any willful murderer would be.
A great place to start is a downloadable titled THE DRUG STORY, by Morris A. Bealle. It’s an eye opener.
track you down and force individuals to get whatever medical treatment the medical industry wants.
That is what. US HR7973. will do. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community/oppose-h-r-7973-the-momnibus-bill
we must not allow thies cosponsors remain in congress.