Barbara Loe Fisher on Medical Exemptions to Vaccination

[I]n most cases, exemptions to vaccination are an illusion, a smokescreen. Exemptions are a tacit approval and validation of oppressive vaccine mandates controlled by ‘medical authorities,’ who we have to beg for the legal right to decline to take a product that can injure, kill or fail to prevent infection so we can go to […]
ACIP Advancement, Autism Announcement & More

You’ve probably heard by now that Trump and RFK Jr. made an important announcement about research into the causes of autism. But what does the news they shared reveal about the current state of science, medicine, the healthcare system and public perception on vaccines? And how does this all relate to the history of pharmaceuticals? […]
The Battle Over Injecting Hepatitis B Vaccine Into Babies on the First Day After Birth

Last week, a very public battle over the wisdom of the at-birth hepatitis B vaccination policy started playing out at a Sept. 18-19, 2025 meeting of U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) when a majority of the newly appointed members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)1 went head to head with pharmaceutical […]
Florida’s Governor Plans to End All Childhood Vaccine Mandates

With the approval of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the state’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, announced on Sept. 3, 2025 that all mandates for childhood vaccines should end in the sunshine state.1 The call for elimination of vaccine mandates in Florida came just a week after the charitable National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) published […]
Repeal Mandatory Vaccination Laws: There Are No Exemptions to Informed Consent | Barbara Loe Fisher

The dystopian response by governments to the COVID-19 pandemic taught us a hard lesson. Never before had human populations around the world simultaneously watched medical doctors and government officials use fear and propaganda to suddenly catapult societies into a social, economic and ethical meltdown. We were ordered to hide in our homes, cover our faces […]
West Virginia Governor Issues Executive Order to Grant Religious Vaccine Exemption, Backs Lawsuit

West Virginia is one of the five states that fails to provide a religious exemption to compliance with public health laws requiring multiple doses of vaccines for children to attend school. The other states without a religious vaccine exemption include California, New York, Maine and Connecticut.1 2 West Virginia is the only state that has […]
