It’s the Cytokine Storms We Should Worry About
Poliovirus is a relatively harmless virus. Most people would be surprised at that statement. But it’s true. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 95 percent of the people who are infected with polio display no symptoms. About four to eight percent of those infected display “minor symptoms…
Illogical Fear Drives the Vaccine Blame Game
The idea that unvaccinated people are to blame for certain infectious disease outbreaks has become a common refrain in the media—mainly due to ignorance and fears fueled by that ignorance. The idea that people who get vaccinated with ineffective or live virus vaccines are playing a role in such outbreaks is much less popular—or well known.
Herd Immunity Theory Has Been Repeatedly Disproven
Several years ago I wrote about the theory of “herd immunity” and explained why it is a myth when applied to a vaccinated population. The herd immunity theory was formulated based on observations during the early 20th century of how an infectious disease appeared…
Quit Using Immunocompromised People to Promote Your Vaccine Agenda
CDC, I’m talking to you. Media, I’m talking to you. Pediatricians, I’m talking to you. Parents who shame other parents, I’m talking to you. Using immunocompromised people as pawns in a vaccine-pushing agenda that twists scientific data to manipulate emotions is abhorrent. As the mother of a child with an immunodeficiency, I can say with…
Millions of Americans Uneasy About Vaccine Safety are “Notorious”?
The biased, vicious, and personal attacks against vaccine safety advocates by the mainstream media continue and seem to show no signs of abating. Coming on the heels of a column published on May 8, 2017 by the editorial staff of the Boston Herald calling for those concerned about…
Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Are the Vaccines to Blame?
It seems like whenever there is an outbreak of an infectious disease in the United States, the media, local public health officials and legislators immediately blame people, who weighed the benefits and risks of vaccination for themselves or their minor children and exercised their right to informed consent to medical risk taking, which includes the freedom to decline to take the risk. News reports abound about how the outbreak would not have happened had people just done what doctors told them to do and gotten their shots. Of course, the irony is that, in many outbreaks of infectious disease of late in the U.S., a substantial minority or, in some cases, a majority of those infected had been vaccinated.