The Religion of Anti-Science Fanaticism
I’ve said it before and will say it again. We all need to work together to call people out when they toss around the term “anti-science” or when they claim they “believe in the science.” For too long, we have accepted the misapplication of this anti-science term instead of rightly questioning those throwing it around. Employees in the health field (licensed doctors, nurses…
Why I Chose Not to Vaccinate My Son
Parents know best when it comes to THEIR child. Like most parents, when I had to learn to parent my son on the fly. It’s what we do. I didn’t really know what I thought about vaccinations when, at 2 months, my son had his first set of them. After all, I was vaccinated and didn’t seem to come out any worse for wear. I had also been on a bit of a “health kick” in my later 20s…
It’s Time to Challenge Those Ruling Our Health Care System
The public conversation about whether we should have the freedom to choose how we want to maintain our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health has become one of the most important public conversations of our time. It is a conversation that challenges us to examine complex public policy, scientific, ethical, legal, philosophical, economic, political and…
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, […]