Book Review | Brave New World
Published in 1932, arguably at the advent of the technological age, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World seems at least as relevant in the 21st century as it was at the time. Long a staple of high school and college literature classes, the story is set in the year 2540 AD—or rather, 632 AF (“After Ford,” a nod to the introduction of the Model T car and the technology…
We Will Not Give Up Our Human Rights for Our Civil Rights
Mothers and fathers of California, you have come to Sacramento today to participate in our democracy and defend your freedom. You are here because you love your children. And there is no power on earth greater than the love we have for our children. The right of the state to tell us what to do to our bodies or the bodies of our children ends where our right to protect…
The Moral Right to Exemption to Vaccination
Following a televised debate with Neal Halsey, M.D. on mandatory vaccination on NBC’s “The Today Show” in March 1997, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher was invited to make a presentation at the May 2, 1997 meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, […]
Dismissed Nursing Student Told to Lie to Patients About Vaccines
According to an article in Health Impact News, in 2013 a nursing student at Bakers College in Owosso, MI, Nichole Bruff, was expelled from the college prior to her graduation allegedly for asking questions about the manner in which her instructors were teaching students to lie to patients to encourage them to vaccinate. The dismissal was issued with neither a…
What Would Jesus Do About Measles?
On February 10, 2015, The New York Times published an Op-Ed piece by Dr. Paul Offit titled “What Would Jesus Do About Measles?.” The thrust of the article holds that allowing parents to choose not to vaccinate their children against measles on the basis of religious belief would be akin to child abuse, and thus would be something Jesus of Nazareth would’ve disdained.
First They Came for the Anti-Vaxxers
Earlier this year I spent a few days at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with my daughter who was having an EEG done. On our way home, I learned that there had been an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria while we were there, that it had infected seven people and killed two of them. […]