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Part 1 – The Evangelists

This essay series is a deep dive into the vaccine conflict: the preaching of the Vaccine Evangelists, the refutation of that preaching by the Vaccine Apostates, and the protection of the Vaccine Evangelists by the Vaccine Apologists.

Evangelists preach and promote the faith.

Apostates have abandoned the faith and may work to actively undermine it.

Apologists defend the faith.

Here’s what’s happening – Vaccine Evangelists preach, and have long been preaching, the doctrine of Salvation Through Vaccination in which they credit vaccines as having brought us deliverance from the high mortality rates, especially among infants and children in the 19th and early 20th centuries, caused by massive yearly numbers of deaths attributed to infectious diseases.

Vaccine Apostates have debunked, and continue to debunk the Vaccine Evangelists’ sermons.

Vaccine Apologists have the task of damage control and containment. The apologists do not directly defend the central misconception put forth by the Vaccine Evangelists. Rarely do the Vaccine Apologists even acknowledge the central misconception being preached by the Evangelists at all, because to do so would emphasize that such a misconception is, indeed, being preached. They instead protect the evangelists by rerouting the conversation with red herrings, accuse the Vaccine Apostates of attacking strawmen, and act as though the Evangelists haven’t been saying the things they’ve been saying.

So then, the first order of business to keep the conversation honest and in accordance with reality, is to demonstrate, that yes, Vaccine Evangelists, absolutely do, quite frequently, promote the belief that vaccines played a primary role in causing the drastic decline in deaths attributed to infectious disease in general, and many major diseases in particular, that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially as this relates to the plummet in infant and child mortality rates. And they also imply and sometimes directly preach the corollary belief that, these diseases would return with comparable devastation if we stopped vaccination against them. (Which I will sometimes refer to in this series simply as “The Belief in Question” and “Central Misconception” for short)

Therefore, this first installment of this essay series is centered on an exhibition (collection of noteworthy examples) of Vaccine Evangelists preaching the aforementioned belief. We’ll get to this exhibition right after some introductory words and forewarnings, analogies to assist in understanding the dynamic at play here, and clarification of some basic terminology that will be important for the reader to keep in mind throughout this essay series.

Beware!

This essay is long format. If you are short on time, bookmark this, and come back to it on a free evening or afternoon and read it while sipping a nice beverage. Or take it one section at a time – this is a good spot to break.

I’ll provide a handy table of contents of this first installment in this essay series, right here, at the beginning, so that you may see what you will be getting into if you proceed (which I hope you do).

Links to the other essays in this series (for easy navigation)

Part 2 – Apostasy

Part 3 – The Red Herring: A Tour of the Motte

Part 4 – Spanish Death Data

Part 5 – The Apologists

Part 6 – The Apologists Continued

Part 7 – The Apologist’s Playbook

Table of Contents (of Part 1. of this essay series)

1. Introduction (You are here)

2. Analogies for Understanding The Basic Interplay of Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists

3. Terminology – Mortality, Death, Morbidity, Notification of Incidence

4. Exhibition of Vaccine Evangelists Preaching the Faith:

5. Road Map

This article was originally published on Winter Oak, Nevermore, Activist Post, and Valerie Kochmann.

2. Analogies for Understanding The Basic Interplay of Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, and Apologists

In this section two analogies are provided. The first analogy of Vaccine Preaching and Defense as a Bait and Switch Confidence Game is followed by a few caveats. It’s a good analogy for the dynamic that it describes, BUT it also implies petty criminality and that is where the analogy breaks down, so that is why I put some caveats in.

The second analogy is the Motte and Bailey. I first provide an excerpt from the developer of the analogy describing what a Motte and Bailey is, then I describe how the analogy applies to what Vaccine Evangelists and Vaccine Apologists are doing.

Vaccine Preaching and Defense as a Bait and Switch Confidence Game

The Bait – The belief that vaccines played a foremost role in causing the drastic decline in deaths attributed to infectious disease, that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially as this relates to the plummet in infant and child mortality rates. And they also imply and sometimes directly preach the corollary belief that, these diseases would return with comparable devastation if we stopped vaccination against them. – that’s the bait (promoted by the Vaccine Evangelists who are wittingly or unwittingly the con men — that is, they sell people a false story that gives them confidence to buy into the belief).

The Switch – Once the vaccinationists know that you have seen the historical mortality data, the Apologists switch the claim from the Evangelist’s grandiose stories about vaccines having brought us deliverance from those frighteningly high mortality rates of the past, to the much less impressive but easier to defend claim that- Vaccines frequently correlate with reductions in notifications of incidence. That’s the switch.

Cooling the Mark Out – Cooling the Mark out, as elucidated in Erving Goffman’s 1952 paper on confidence games, is the role of a conman’s accomplice in calming down (cooling) the victim (the mark) of a confidence game, after the mark realizes they’ve been cheated.

If Vaccine Apostates threaten the reputation of vaccines by debunking the central misconception promoted by the Vaccine Evangelists, then people who believed that misconception are understandably going to lose trust, and wonder how else they may have been deceived about vaccines. Loss of trust in formerly trusted institutions that promoted this message (governments, medical establishments) or failed to debunk it, and frequently promoted it (news media) would also be a logical consequence.

So someone needs to cool the mark out. This is where the Vaccine Apologists come in. They treat it as absurd to believe that anyone was promoting the misconception to begin with. They misdirect and misconstrue the arguments of the vaccine apostates; they dig for the weakest examples of apostate arguments and present them as the strongest. Above all they avoid any acknowledgment that the central misconception of the doctrine of Salvation Through Vaccination is widely preached and believed. By ignoring the existence of the misconception they can treat it as though the Vaccine Apostates debunking the misconception are fighting a strawman based on the presumption that the misconception being debunked doesn’t exist, or isn’t widely put forth.

Forgive me for continuing to heap on the analogies, but, the Vaccine Apologists cool the marks out by gaslighting them; that’s what most of what they are doing really boils down to, gaslighting (leading someone to believe that they are deluded for believing as true something that is in fact true). Here is an example of the Vaccine Apologists’ gaslighting in a nutshell:

I don’t know why you thought that vaccines played a primary role in the drastic decline in deaths attributed to infectious disease that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that we would be overwhelmed with a tsunami of suffering and death if we stopped vaccinating, Basically no one has been saying or suggesting or insinuating that. Stop deluding yourself. Stop fighting strawmen.”

Caveats for the Analogy of Vaccine Preaching and Defense as a Bait and Switch Confidence Game

Bait and switch confidence games are a useful analogy here, as the same basic elements of a confidence game can be seen in the preaching and defense of vaccines. BUT, confidence men and confidence tricks bring to mind petty criminals. Broadly speaking, I regard neither Vaccine Evangelists nor Vaccine Apologists as petty, nor do I regard them as criminals – hence these caveats.

No doubt they (vaccine, evangelists, and apologists) have many motivations. It is likely that a great many of the Vaccine Evangelists genuinely believe the gospel that they are preaching. And the Vaccine Apologists, I suspect, are practitioners of Noble Lies (lying on behalf of the “greater good”) and Paternalistic Deceptions (deceiving someone for “their own good”); they “know” that the benefits of vaccines vastly outweigh the risks, and if they need to protect a misconception, or gaslight you, in order for you to accept that, then it is for the greater good of ensuring widespread vaccination.

I doubt many of them are frank enough with themselves to acknowledge that they are engaging in paternalistic deception and noble lies. It would be unrealistic to expect vaccinationists to regularly own up to this, but occasionally they do (emphasis mine):

“In death certificates given by us voluntarily, and to which the public have access, it is scarcely to be expected that a medical man will give opinions which may tell against or reflect upon himself in anyway.. . . In such cases he will most likely tell the truth, but not the whole truth, and assign some prominent symptom of disease as the cause of death. As instances of cases which may tell against the medical man himself, I will mention erysipelas from vaccination, and puerperal fever. A death from the first cause (vaccination) occurred not long ago in my practice, and although I had not vaccinated the child, yet, in my desire to preserve vaccination from reproach, I omitted all mention of it from my certificate of death.”

– Dr. Henry May, medical officer of health, (the intermediary sources where I have encountered this quote by Henry May are Dissolving Illusions – Bystrianyk and Humphries and Vaccination a DelusionAlfred Russel Wallace. The original sources for this quote are the Ipswich Journal of 1876 and the Birmingham Medical Review, Vol III., pp. 34, 35)

Introduction to Motte and Bailey Doctrines

The Motte and Bailey Doctrine is an analogy developed by the philosopher Nicholas Shackel to describe a certain rhetorical maneuver. Shackel describes the Motte and Bailey as follows:

A Motte and Bailey castle is a medieval system of defense in which a stone tower on a mound (the Motte) is surrounded by an area of pleasantly habitable land (the Bailey), which in turn is encompassed by some sort of a barrier, such as a ditch. Being dark and dank, the Motte is not a habitation of choice. The only reason for its existence is the desirability of the Bailey, which the combination of the Motte and ditch makes relatively easy to retain despite attack by marauders. When only lightly pressed, the ditch makes small numbers of attackers easy to defeat as they struggle across it: when heavily pressed the ditch is not defensible, and so neither is the Bailey. Rather, one retreats to the insalubrious but defensible, perhaps impregnable, Motte. Eventually the marauders give up, when one is well placed to reoccupy desirable land.

For my original purposes the desirable but only lightly defensible territory of the Motte and Bailey castle, that is to say, the Bailey, represents philosophical propositions with similar properties: desirable to their proponents but only lightly defensible. The Motte represents the defensible but undesired propositions to which one retreats when hard pressed.

Diagnosis of a philosophical doctrine as being a Motte and Bailey Doctrine is invariably fatal. Once made it is relatively obvious to those familiar with the doctrine that the doctrine’s survival required a systematic vacillation between exploiting the desired territory and retreating to the Motte when pressed. Clearly, the diagnosis is not confined to philosophical doctrines: others may suffer the same malady.”

You can read more of Shackel regarding the Motte and Bailey here.

Remember: The Motte is territory that can be defended but is undesirable; the Bailey is the desired territory, but not very defensible. The practitioners of the Motte and Bailey doctrine spend their time occupying the prize territory – the Bailey, when they can. But if pressed they retreat from the hard-to-defend Bailey into the much less desirable, but more defensible Motte. There they stay until the attack subsides, at which point they leave the cramped Motte and retake the desired Bailey.

How vaccinationists use the Motte and Bailey to Great Effect

The Bailey for vaccinationists is the belief that vaccines played a primary roll in the drastic decline in deaths attributed to infectious diseases, and many major diseases in particular, that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially as this relates to the plummet in infant and child mortality rates; and also the corollary belief that these diseases would return with comparable devastation if we stopped vaccination against them.

This is highly desirable rhetorical ground to occupy. If this belief were true, than the benefits of vaccines would be truly “miraculous” as the vaccinationists are fond of saying. Anyone who believes this is likely to believe that vaccines are a no brainer, and the tolerance for risk in vaccines would be relatively high due to the belief in such an enormous benefit.

No wonder then that vaccinationists like to promote this belief. But this belief is the Bailey; when subject to careful scrutiny it is not defensible at all.

Once pressed, the vaccinationists retreat into the Motte, the defensible but not very desirable position. The Motte, for vaccinationists, is that the introduction of widespread vaccination against certain diseases has frequently correlated with a reduction in notifications of incidence for that disease. This is much more defensible territory.

But vaccinationists do not enjoy being confined to the Motte and watching Vaccine Apostates remove from vaccines the immense undue credit that vaccines enjoy. In other words, the vaccinationists need to drive the Vaccine Apostates out of the Bailey, and the sooner the better.

How do vaccinationists drive the Apostates out of the Bailey? Similar to the other analogy (vaccination as a bait and switch confidence game) the Vaccine Apologists accuse anyone who storms the Bailey of attacking a strawman, thereby implying that the vaccinationists had never been trying to occupy the Bailey to begin with, that they had never been promoting the belief in question.

3. Terminology: Mortality, Death, Morbidity, and Notification of Incidence

Most of the historical mortality data directly contradicts the preaching of Vaccine Evangelists . The morbidity data on the other hand, is often times more favorable, or at least less unfavorable to them – though unfortunately for them it doesn’t support the central misconception of the Doctrine of Salvation Through Vaccination that they preach. We’ll be looking at these matters in greater detail but for now let’s briefly go over definitions:

Mortality is death; mortality data is death data; mortality data sorted by cause is data of deaths sorted by recorded cause of death.

Morbidity is incidence (someone having the illness in question); morbidity data is generally a generous way of saying data on notifications of incidence (reported incidence of the illness), which is usually a subset of the actual incidence (a large unknown quantity of which goes unreported).

Experiencing an illness, which might be very mild, and may not result in any lasting complications (morbidity), is very different from experiencing death (mortality) which means the end of your earthly visit, and the defunction of all the bodily functions of your physical body. There is no “mild death.”

Morbidity might lead to mortality or it might not even remotely head that way; these are two potentially and often radically different conditions. Morbidity could refer to just about any condition, including something very temporary, that results in something just shy of excellent health, but is still a literal lifetime away from death.

Despite these great differences the words Mortality and Morbidity sound very similar and both invoke the idea of death because of the uses of the word Morbid in everyday English.

To avoid confusion, I will most often use plain English Death in place of Mortality, and Notification of Incidence in place of Morbidity.

You will still see Mortality and Morbidity when I quote others, or when I decide to use them anyway because it is clear by context that death or notification of incidence is being discussed.

We’ll get into mortality and morbidity data in greater detail in Part 3 of this essay series, but for now keep in mind that this is a very important distinction, and these two data types are very different in many ways: mortality (death) data is more consequential, more complete, and more widely available over greater periods of time. Morbidity (notification of incidence) data is less consequential, much less complete, available for much more limited time periods, and for many of the most crucial time periods, morbidity data isn’t available at all, as we will see.

Why is this so important? If Vaccine Evangelists preach that vaccines played a primary role in causing the drastic decline in deaths attributed to infectious disease in general, and many major diseases in particular, that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially as this relates to the plummet in infant and child mortality rates. And they also imply, and sometimes directly preach, the corollary belief that, these diseases would return with comparable devastation if we stopped vaccination against them, then they need the mortality data to support that belief.

Morbidity data would be icing on the cake of that belief, but the belief is indefensible to begin with if the mortality data doesn’t support it (in which case there is no cake to put the icing on).

4. Exhibition of Vaccine Evangelists Preaching the Faith

I am going to provide a broad selection of examples of vaccinationists promoting the belief in question.

This type of vaccine evangelism is so common and so extensive, that we can divide it into distinct genres (uncharitably speaking, we will be looking at categories of vaccinationist tropes and clichés).

Providing these examples is an important step if we want to make further gaslighting efforts difficult for the Vaccine Apologists. Making extensive documentation of the Vaccine Evangelist preaching a key part of this essay series will assist us in removing plausible deniability from Vaccine Apologists and making it more difficult for them to cool the marks out (the bait and switch analogy), or deny that they were ever trying to occupy the Bailey (the Motte and Bailey analogy). I know this sounds harsh, but really it is all for the Vaccine Apologists’ own good: we are helping to keep them intellectually honest and removing from them the temptation for further gaslighting and misdirection on this matter.

We will look at three prominent genres of Vaccine Evangelist Preaching in this exhibition. They are; The Graveyard Gambit, Bait and Switch Preaching, and the Lifespan Lecture.

The Graveyard Gambit: Exhibits A Through D and Links to more Vaccine Evangelist Graveyard Lectures.

Our first example of Vaccine Evangelism is what I call The Graveyard Gambit.

The Graveyard Gambit category of vaccine evangelism involves pointing to gravestones in old cemeteries where the preponderance of headstones belonging to children and infants bears witness to the frighteningly high rates of child and infant deaths attributed to the infectious diseases that were so very common in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And then saying:

See! See! This is what happened before vaccines, this is why we need vaccines.”

This is one of my favorite genres of vaccine evangelism: they’re not demanding that we make a leap of faith by insisting that we trust the experts, or follow the science. Here, the vaccinationists are making a real argument as opposed to an appeal to authority, or an appeal to conventional wisdom. With the Graveyard Gambit they bring forth a literally down to earth argument, centered on rock solid, concrete evidence, that any one of us can verify for ourselves by a simple stroll through just about any of many an old cemetery.

I appreciate this, I really do. Not to mention that I love the evocative and melancholy aesthetic of the vaccine evangelist’s graveyard lectures; it’s a beautiful genre of Vaccine Evangelism.

While the graveyard gambit does not prove what vaccine evangelists think it proves (as we will see later in this essay series), it is a fine example of the preaching and acceptance of the belief that vaccines played the primary role in the drastic reduction of deaths attributed to infectious diseases in general, and specific major diseases in particular, that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And they also preach the corollary belief that, these diseases would return with comparable effects if we stopped vaccination against them.

So without further ado, let’s immerse ourselves in this lovely array of vaccine evangelist graveyard lectures through the perusal of Exhibits A through D

Exhibit A

Exhibit A is comprised of excerpts from Clear Answers and Smart Advice About Your Baby’s Shotsby Dr. Ari Brown. Ari Brown is a Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School educated pediatrician. The Immunization Action Coalition, turned an excerpt of her book, Baby 411, into this vaccine information hand out Clear Answers and Smart Advice About Your Baby’s Shots.

You can find this handout all over the web through various vaccine advocacy cites, and various pediatricians’ websites, and especially through government websites which recommend it as a source of science-based information about vaccines to be given to vaccine hesitant parents. Washington State Department of Health lists this handout in their resources for encouraging parents to vaccinate and so to does Health.Alaska.Gov, and the Minnesota Department of Health and the health departments of Colorado, and Missouri and New York, and many counties and county health departments within the states too, such as Lewis County WA on their list of science based materials to give to vaccine hesitant parents, and Stanislaus County California, and Douglas County Wisconsin, and . . . you get the point; it’s popular with government health agencies in the USA at both the state and county level.

But just in case they all decide to clean up their act and take it down, or alter it; I accessed these websites on May 9th and May 15th, 2023 and here is a Web Archived version of the handout.

And now for the excerpts from Clear Answers and Smart Advice About Your Baby’s Shots:

Consider a bit of history: in the 1890s, people
would have seven or eight children in their families and only half of
them would survive childhood. Just go to an old graveyard sometime
and look at the ages listed on the headstones. Many of the diseases
that killed those children are now prevented by vaccination. It’s a fact:
vaccinations have increased the life expectancy of our nation’s chil-
dren. That’s why our grandparents and parents embraced vaccines. {…

} Doubt the effectiveness of vaccines? Just take a look at
the sharp decline of illness and death rates from these diseases since
1950. Here is the link if you want to check it out: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/
pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/E/reported-cases.pdf.* Rather
amazing, no? Diseases that used to kill thousands (if not hundreds of
thousands) now only harm a handful of people – thanks to vaccines.”

* The link Dr. Brown shared appears to be broken, and oddly enough the redirect only takes me to Appendices A through D, but not E on the CDC’s website. Anyways, it can be found elsewhere; here is a link to the Appendix E with reported cases and deaths, saved on another website.

Exhibit B

In this next exhibit we have excerpts from a 2019 article published in the Indianapolis Business Journal, by Dr Richard Feldman “a family physician, author, lecturer and former Indiana State Department of Health commissioner for Gov. Frank O’Bannon.” The article title is Old cemeteries show lives cut short before vaccines (accessed May 9th 2023).

During the 20th century, the average life span increased by 30 years due to advancements in public health. Much of this resulted from the massive program to vaccinate all children for various diseases, including smallpox (eliminated entirely from the world due to vaccination), measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, polio and whooping cough. There are also now immunizations against Haemophilus influenzae, meningococcal disease, pneumonia, influenza and rotavirus. {. . .

. . . }When I encounter vaccine hesitancy, I ask parents to go to an old cemetery. They will see an astonishing number of tombstones of children, many of whom died of vaccine-preventable diseases today. The deaths of young, healthy people were just an unfortunate fact of everyday life. It is easy to take vaccines for granted since their very success, the elimination of diseases, makes their value invisible. It’s hard to appreciate what one does not experience.”

Exhibit C

In Exhibit C we have excerpts from an interview of Stanford immunologist Mark Davis, PhD, who directs the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection. These excerpts are from Stanford Medicine’s publication Scope, and they are recapping the interview and provide these transcripts in this 2015 article titled A discussion of vaccines, “the single most life-saving innovation ever in the history of medicine” (Web Archive Version Here). So let’s see what our Stanford immunologist friend, has to say on the matter.

Davis, who directs the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, harked back to the time when cemeteries were filled with the graves of young children who fell victim to diseases such as measles and mumps that were virtually wiped out with the advent of vaccines. In the pre-vaccine era, about half of all children died of infectious diseases that are readily preventable today, he noted.

One day I wandered through Union Cemetery in Redwood City, which started around 1850,” he said. “What was telling about the earlier graves is how many graves you have where they are two large headstones for the mother and father and a lot of little headstones for the children who died in infancy from measles and mumps and all these diseases that had also vanished with childhood vaccination but that are now coming back because people say, ‘I’ve heard something bad about these vaccines. So we are not going to give them to our kid.’”

As to whether California should require parents to vaccinate their children, Davis was adamant on the subject:

I wouldn’t want unvaccinated kids in a classroom with my kids. I think it’s a danger. These are decisions made by parents that could affect the health of their children for the rest of their lives… The government is totally correct to say you should not kill your child, you should not starve your child, you should not beat your child, and you should not deprive your child of vaccines.”

Exhibit D

The Daily Telegraph (An Australian newspaper) launched a campaign, No Jab No Play, in 2013 to pressure the government into adopting greater sanctions against the unvaccinated, such as withholding tax rebates from parents of unvaccinated children. As part of their crusade against the unvaccinated, the Daily Telegraph published articles extolling vaccines. The excerpts in this exhibit are from the Daily Telegraph’s 2016 article No Jab No Play: Graveyards tell countless stories of how now-preventable diseases stalked children.

The success of Australia’s immunisation program has led to a collective amnesia about the diseases that once stalked our children: diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, polio and smallpox.

NSW (New South Wales) graveyards are crowded with the saddest of reminders: the graves of babies and children wiped out by vaccine-preventable diseases in the 19th and 20th centuries, when hundreds of infants died each year.

In 1863, there were 15,679 births and 6653 infant deaths in Sydney. Infant mortality (children under five) was a staggering 57.5 per cent of total deaths.

A quarter of child deaths were caused by diseases such as diphtheria and measles, according to a report by the Registrar-General of Births Deaths and Marriages, presented to Parliament in 1864.

Parents lived in constant fear of outbreaks, said Sydney University professor of population and health Peter Curson, author of a history of Australia’s infectious disease history Deadly Encounters.

The measles epidemic of 1867 was the most severe childhood epidemic of the 19th century; 13,000 caught it and 70 per cent were under five. Some 800 children died in Sydney,” Prof Curson said.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH COMMENT

We thought this would be an easy story to do: go to a NSW graveyard, find headstones dedicated to children who died of polio or whooping cough, and tell the story of the epidemics that once stalked our children.

We wanted to prove to anti-vaccine parents — or those who forget to get jabs for their kids — that smallpox, polio and diphtheria could become terrifying monsters once again if we let our guard down.

. . . Anti-vaccination types claim that improved infant mortality is thanks to better sanitation and nutrition. But the truth is plain when you examine the figures.

Diphtheria killed 4073 people in Australia between 1926 and 1935. The vaccine, introduced into school-based and infant immunisation programs in the 1930s, saw deaths plummet to just 44 between 1956 and 1965. Tetanus killed 625 people in 1945-55 but the vaccine, introduced in 1945, has resulted in zero deaths since the 1970s.

Immunisation expert Robert Booy said with the introduction of each vaccine, Australia saw “fantastic, sudden reduction in disease”.”

Graveyard Gambits Galore

We could go on; there are many more examples of the Graveyard Gambit category of Vaccine Evangelism. But the four we have just reviewed, from a pediatrician, a physician, an immunologist, and a crusading newspaper, respectively, is plenty.

For those who want more, however, I’ll just drop some links to sources of more graveyard lectures.

There are various op-eds and letters to the editor in newspapers pointing to old gravestones and extolling vaccines, such as:

The Australian author Greg Beattie discusses in detail an Australian show, Norman Swan’s The Health Report (Radio National – ABC), directed by a respected pediatrician which walks you through an old cemetery, and reads out the inscriptions of the gravestones of children to demonstrate the high child child mortality rate of the time, and credits vaccines as having saved us from that situation. You can read about this in Beattie’s excellent book Fooling Ourselves on the Fundamental Value of Vaccination. (we’ll be looking at some of Beattie’s stellar work later in this essay series).

There are of course blog posts centered around the graveyard gambit, such as A grave reminder of the importance of vaccines which begins by elucidating children’s headstones from the 1860s, or Lessons from a Kansas graveyard: What a 1903 outbreak of diphtheria can teach us today. The author of which concludes her piece with:

When I hear of someone arguing against the benefits of vaccinations, I want to say, ‘Before you make up your mind, let me show you something.’ Then I want to take them out to a local cemetery. ‘This,’ I want to say, ‘This is why we have vaccines.’”

The Graveyard Gambit even crops up in an article that has nothing to do with vaccines and is actually about tombstones, not vaccines, but the reporter can’t resist a little vaccine hype too; this FOX23 article Maine tombstones tell sobering family stories of epidemics past where the reporter explains the high death rates which the tombstones testify too, like so:

These were times before vaccines, ventilators, antibiotics or any real understanding of disease transmission. There was nothing to stop deadly bacteria and viruses from marching through whole families.”

All right, I promised we were done with the graveyard lecture for now, so I’ll fulfill that promise. Let’s look at some other genres of vaccine evangelism.

Ah, but wait, a beta reader of this essay left me this note at the end of this section,

Are you going to refute the Graveyard argument here or later? You refute the Bait and Switch in the same section where you introduce it.”

Good question. The answer is – later, next essay. All these exhibits of Vaccine Evangelism, can be and have been debunked, by sharing the historical, deaths by cause of death, data. We will look at that in detail in the second part of this series (Part 2. Apostasy).

Bait and Switch Preaching: Exhibits E Through H

Our next category of Vaccine Evangelism is Bait and Switch Preaching.

We can discuss the strategy being employed in these bait and switch vaccine evangelism examples momentarily, but for now just enjoy this exhibit of them, and see if you can pick up on what they are doing before I point it out.

Exhibit E

Childhood Killers (their subheading choice, not mine)

Diphtheria and measles killed thousands of children each year before their respective vaccines were developed. Since the diphtheria vaccine began to be widely used in the 1930s, and the measles vaccine in the 1960s, cases of both diseases dropped precipitously. Today, cases of diphtheria are less than one per year in the United States, and cases of measles occur mostly among the unvaccinated.”

– from the diseases page of HistoryOfVaccines.org (Archived Version Here) which is by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Exhibit F

Measles was one of the top killers among infectious diseases worldwide until a vaccine was developed in 1963. Even as recently as 1980, before global vaccination efforts began in earnest, an estimated 2.6 million children worldwide died from measles each year. It is also one of the most contagious of vaccine-preventable diseases: Nine out of ten people exposed to it will become ill without immunity from a vaccine or a prior infection, and each case yields 15 to 20 more in a non-immune population. After the U.K. and the U.S. introduced the vaccine, cases plummeted. One dose provides 95% protection against the disease; the second boosts that to 98-99%.”

Two Countries, One Deadly Disease, a PBS article from 2014 (internet Archive Version Here)

Exhibit G

Whooping cough vaccines became widely available in the 1940s. Before then, about 200,000 children got sick and about 9,000 died from whooping cough each year in the United States. After vaccine introduction, whooping cough cases reached an all-time low in the 1970s.”

CDC DTP Vaccine page (accessed april 17th 2023)(Web Archived Version Here).

Exhibit H

Diphtheria was once a major cause of illness and death among children. The United States recorded 206,000 cases of diphtheria in 1921, resulting in 15,520 deaths. Starting in the 1920s, diphtheria rates dropped quickly in the United States and other countries that began widely vaccinating. Due to the success of the U.S. immunization program, diphtheria is now nearly unheard of in the United States. In 2019, countries reported more than 22,900 cases to the World Health Organization, but many more cases likely go unreported.”

CDC’s DTP page (accessed April 2023) ( Web Archived Version Here)

Bait and switch preaching, just like the Graveyard Gambit, is meant to convey the idea that we can thank vaccines for these disease no longer being the killers they once were. But, bait and switch preaching is deniable. They don’t technically say that the vaccines are responsible for the drastic reduction in deaths attributed to these diseases between then and now, they simply give the idea that it is so. They are out preaching in the Bailey but they are already preparing their retreat back into the Motte if challenged.

So how do they give this idea while maintaining some technical deniability?

They start by talking about how bad cases and deaths were before the vaccine. This gives you the impression that they are addressing the impact of the vaccine on both cases and deaths.

Then they talk about the rate falling after the vaccine was introduced. When they talk about the rate falling after the introduction of the vaccine they either drop deaths, and now mention only cases or they use an ambiguous word like “rate” (Exhibit H) which could refer to both cases and deaths, but they could also deny that. This all happens in the span of a single paragraph and leaves the reader with the impression that they just said that deaths and cases dropped quickly after the introduction of the vaccine. But when you look carefully you note that they either switched to only cases and dropped deaths, or they employed enough strategic ambiguity that you can’t actually tell if they are talking about cases, deaths, or both. You have to parse these statements with a fine toothed comb to see where they are setting up their escape rout into the Motte if challenged in the Bailey.

The Lifespan Lecture: Exhibits I Through L

Our third exhibit of Vaccine Evangelism is examples of the Lifespan Lecture.

The lifespan lecture involves stating, or strongly implying, that vaccines played a primary role in the increase in life expectancy from what it was in the past, generally the 19th or early 20th century.

In the most detached-from-reality-version of the lifespan lecture, vaccines alone are mentioned. A slightly less grandiose, but still mostly reality free version of the lifespan lecture involves crediting the improvement in life expectancy to several primary factors – vaccines, along with, usually antibiotics and sanitation or hygiene. So the Lifespan Lecture places vaccines either among the foremost, or as the foremost reason for the improved lifespan.

Exhibit I

No exhibit of vaccine evangelism would be complete without a sermon or two from Dr. Paul Offit (Dr. Offit is a Vaccine Evangelist extraordinaire; he is hailed as an expert in immunology, virology, and vaccines. He co-developed the rotavirus vaccine, he appears on TV stations and documentaries extolling vaccines, he writes books promoting vaccines, and he writes forwards and endorsements of other people’s vaccine advocacy books). Offit has a pretty clear number in mind for just how many years of the increase in lifespan from the early 1900s is thanks to vaccines – 30 years. To demonstrate that this claim is no mere mistake of Offit’s attributable to say, foggy thinking from a bad day, or a lost night of sleep, I’ll provide multiple examples of Offit making this claim.

Offit’s “Vaccines have increased our lifespan by 30 years” claim, case example 1:

Narrator: They’re hailed as medicine’s greatest triumph, conquering small pox, polio diphtheria, and more.

Dr. Paul Offit: If you look at vaccines over the past hundred years, they’ve increased our lifespan by 30 years.”

– Those are the opening words of the 2017 PBS Frontline documentary The Vaccine War.

Offit’s “Vaccines have increased our lifespan by 30 years” claim, case example 2:

AMY GOODMAN: Well, Dr. Offit, you have heard our show today. Can you talk about why you feel vaccines are so important?

DR. PAUL OFFIT: Well, because they’ve saved our lives. If you look at how long we lived, say, a hundred years ago, we lived 30 years less long—less long then than we do today. So, the reason—the main reason for that is vaccines.

-Offit being interviewed on Democracy Now in 2015 on their show – Inside the Vaccine War: Measles Outbreak Rekindles Debate on Autism, Parental Choice & Public Health

Offit’s “Vaccines have increased our lifespan by 30 years” claim, case example 3:

Offit’s been making the 30 year claim since at least 2010, as in this 2015 PBS Frontline article which is a transcript of interviews with Offit from 2010, titled Dr. Paul Offit: “A Choice Not To Get a Vaccine Is Not a Risk-Free Choice”

Measles would cause 100,000 people to be hospitalized, primarily children, and between 500 to 1,000 to die. Rubella was a very common cause of congenital infection, meaning that the mother would be infected while the baby was still in the womb, resulting in about 20,000 cases every year in the United States of birth defects such as those that involve the eye, the ear and the heart. It was a terrible time. We lived 30 years less … than we do now, in large part because we didn’t have the vaccines that now can save our life.”

Offit’s “Vaccines have increased our lifespan by 30 years” claim, case example 4:

After listing out various alleged triumphs of vaccines, Offit concludes;

In short, because of vaccines, we live 30 years longer than we did a hundred years ago”

– From the updated forward of the book Vaccinated: From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines by Paul Offit. Offit wrote the updated forward in 2021, and it was published in the 2022 publication of the book.

And now, some non-Offit commentators:

Exhibit J

Lifesaving vaccines have drastically increased longevity for United States citizens. Today, populations live almost twice as long as they did a century ago.”

Public Health Initiatives and Life Expectancy: Immunizations (accessed May 15th Archived Version Here) Published in 2021 by the Master of Health Administration at Regis College.

Exhibit K

Vaccines have dramatically increased life expectancy over the last 100 years, radically reshaping our communities, our economy, and the way we live our lives. As vaccination has become more widespread, the memory of the devastating impacts of infectious disease has faded, and the diseases that vaccines guard against seem less threatening. Misinformation and a lack of understanding about vaccines have also seeded doubts about their efficacy and necessity.”

Vaccination: More than just your health (accessed May 19th 2023) From a Harvard University Blog, published in 2018 and written by Madeleine Jennewein who the website lists as “a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Virology program at Harvard University.”

Exhibit L

“Our children are so much more likely to live a long life now. At the turn of the 20th century median age of survival was in the 40’s and now Americans, on average, live into their 70’s and beyond. No one disputes that it is antibiotics and vaccines coupled with sanitation that have made the most impact on our profound increase in survival.” – The Link Between Vaccines And Optimism – 2014 by Dr Wendy Sue Swanson (pediatrician) on her website.

5. Roadmap

This concludes the the first installment, Part 1. of this essay series. As mentioned in the introduction, the principle purpose of this first essay was to present the Exhibition of Vaccine Evangelists Preaching the Faith. Now we have firmly demonstrated, that yes, Vaccine Evangelists absolutely do promote the belief that vaccines played a primary role in causing the drastic decline in deaths attributed to infectious disease in general, and many major diseases in particular, that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially as this relates to the plummet in infant and child mortality rates. And they also imply and sometimes directly preach the corollary belief that, these diseases would return with comparable devastation if we stopped vaccination against them.

Where to from here? I present below a schematic of the next installments of this essay series, up to Part 7 (which I updated on November 26th, 2023, to reflect some changes I made to the order of this series).

Part 2. Apostasy – Part 2. will be an overview of Vaccine Apostates storming the Bailey and debunking the Vaccine Evangelist preaching (preachings, such as all the exhibits we reviewed in this first installment).

Part 3. The Red Herring: A Tour of the Motte – Just what the title implies; a walk through of the relatively undesirable but more defensible vaccinationist stronghold (notification of incidence data) to which they retreat when the Vaccine Apostates storm the Bailey, and an explanation of how Vaccine Apologists use incidence data and off topic questions, as red herrings to redirect the conversation away from the historical death data.

Part 4. Spanish Death Data Yes, precisely that.

Part 5. The Apologists – A deconstruction of vaccine apologetics, with point by point dissection and counter criticism of their arguments.

Includes a review of a selection of deceptive pro-vaccine graphs, and an exploration of what happened in Sweden when they suspended their pertussis vaccine program for 17 years.

Part 6. The Apologists Continued – Further exploration of vaccine apologetics, plus a review of some historical mortality profiles in Ireland, Sweden, and Norway.

Part 7. The Vaccine Apologists’ Playbook – An analysis and review of the principal strategies employed by the Vaccine Apologists.

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  1. Alden says:

    Diphtheria wasn’t just a childhood disease Tens of millions of adults died if it over the centuries. And it wasn’t just in the 19th century about one third of children died of diseases like TB scarlet fever those childhood deaths happened form the beginning of human history. So did adults die of disease. Diphtheria is incredibly contagious. So is smallpox. It was completely eradicated by the late 19th century.

    I myself never got a COVID vaccination. Because I knew it was a total hoax. How did I know COVID was a hoax. I read about COVID in the New York Times and other lying media.

    TB is a worse epidemic in America than COVID but the lying media completely covers it up. Only medical and public health people know about it. But they are under strict orders to keep quiet about it. Because TB is brought to America by immigrants.

    This site gets worse and worse. The Men of Unz have been protected all their lives by their childhood vaccinations. Not having children they can advocate ending vaccinations. Because only other peoples children will die of diphtheria scarlet fever polio smallpox and TB.

    This site vigorously promoted COVID hoax vaccines. But is against other vaccines.

  2. Anonymous[287] • Disclaimer says:
    @Alden

    Most reduction in mortality was caused by better sanitation and antibiotics, not vaccines. I’m not completely against vaccination but it should be completely voluntary. If the vaccine theory is right, then only the unvaccinated will die, right?

    Even assuming they help, vaccines are not magic — in particular modern vaccines of the mRNA type — and they do have significant drawbacks. (i.e. polio vaccine contaminating people with SV90, heart problems, mercury intoxication, autism).

    Migrants bringing in diseases is a separate problem, and should be resolved by ending migration, not by promoting even more vaccination, which is what they want (another “benefit” of migration, from their point of view).

  3. Excellent timing for this essay as the self-proclaimed ‘Godfather’ of the Operation Warp Speed, the DARPA Operation that pushed the ‘clot shot’ , Trump, the salesman and ultimate purveyor of the murderous poisonous crap nominates RFKjr., to be director of Health and Human Services….

    Will RFKjr have power to take aim at the culprits or was a deal made? And what was the deal? Or is there just some big tongue biting in order to get in position to perhaps see the reports on the assassinations of JFK and RFK….and to actually fulfill the passion to bring back healthy food to America….

    I wonder if Roundup will be round up and the the sterile GMO seeds be jettisoned, as Roundup and GMO foods might have something to do with fertility decline and the sexual identify disphorias?

  4. There are diseases for which there is no vaccine and yet have almost disappeared. The disappearance of many diseases happens to coincide with the spread of access to clean running water. There are conditions that were very rare before mandatory mass vaccination, autism comes to mind. I know, correlation is not causation. Except of course when lauding the achievements of the pharmaceutical industry. Just saying.

    • Agree: ariadna, Quincas Borba
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    , @Anonymous
  5. @Alden

    “TB is a worse epidemic in America than COVID but the lying media completely covers it up. Only medical and public health people know about it. But they are under strict orders to keep quiet about it. Because TB is brought to America by immigrants.”

    Confirmed.

    Two classmates of mine went on to teach in California high schools after grad school: one teaching Phys. Ed., the other teaching AP macroeconomics. Different districts.

    Both of them shared with me memos from school site/school district nurses naming new students with active TB. Both of them informed me that keeping said students out of their classroom and away from the rest of the student body was “not an option” because “they have rights.”

    The infected students were all from Latin America.

    This was well before covid19.

    • Replies: @Alden
  6. Rockefellers Secondary to Rothschilds
    By Eustace Mullins

    “Thus the ancient calumny of John D. Rockefeller as a man obsessed by greed (a category in which he has plenty of company) obscures the act that from the day the Rothschilds began to finance his march towards a total oil monopoly in the United States from their coffers at the National City Bank of Cleveland, Rockefeller was never an independent power, nor does any department of the Rockefeller Syndicate operate as an independent power.”

    • Agree: 2stateshmoostate
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    , @bjondo
  7. Poopsie says:

    Excellent points that’re rarely pointed out.

    To emphasize your mention of the fact that there seem to be several diseases that were never heard of before the advent and use of vaccines may I add others such as SIDS, SADS, shaken baby syndrome, various autoimmune disorders and perhaps some types of cancers, especially the so-called turbo cancers?

    Also, I suspect a possibility that atherosclerosis, which apparently is now being thought to originate in inflammation of blood vessels, and not due to high cholesterol, could be a product of the inflammation intentionally generated by the injections.

    Time may give us the answers.

    Addendum. Yesterday I was reading articles about public health measures initiated by the US in the Philippines and was struck by the emphasis on hygiene and sanitation in the prevention of infectious diseases. Vaccines were not mentioned at all yet they were largely successful in improving the situation.

    • Agree: The Real World
  8. Poopsie says:
    @Pepé Le Pew

    Speaking of Mullins,

    Murder By Injection. Eustace Mullins, 1988

    https://archive.org/details/MurderByInjection.EustaceMullins

    He mentioned this, which I also found quite interesting. First published, I believe, in 1949.

    The Drug Story; A Factological History of America’s $10,000,000,000 [dollars] Drug Cartel: Its Methods, Operations, Hidden Ownership, Profits and Terrific Impact on the Health of the American People :

    Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
    https://archive.org/details/the_drug_story2/mode/2up

  9. MGB says:
    @Alden

    Scarlet fever.

    So the decrease in deaths due to scarlet fever is the result of the scarlet fever vaccine.

    • Replies: @Wayne Lusvardi
  10. QCIC says:
    @Alden

    What is your response to RFK’s point (or claim) that none of the recommended childhood vaccines was properly tested before it was licensed? Does anyone here know if this topic has been reasonably addressed by his detractors?

    He is making a valid challenge which deserves a real response. I can think of several ways that a bureaucrat might weasel out of this question, but I have not seen which tricks are employed.

  11. This is for Ron and Kevin for whom I have the highest respect.

    Both of you had strong opinions on the origin and goal of the pandemic.
    As of this date, Ron had over 40 articles on the Covid Vaccine. In addition, I believe both of you stated that you took at least one jab.

    Typical of a big controversial event, many opinions in the first few years of an event are premature, and supporting evidence may not come for many years. This happened with the JFK assassination as well as the 9/11 event. Many changed their opinions as new information became available.

    It is reasonable to assume that supporting evidence of the intent of the pandemic and the intent of the vaccine would come out after the dust has settled and people became more rational about their views, making adjustments as new evidence surfaced.

    Provided for your review is a LINK to a Covid vaccine study that came out in July 2024. I would appreciate your take on this study and how does its information and conclusion fit in with the equation of your worldview. The 65 page study can be downloaded from the Link.

    REAL-TIME SELF-ASSEMBLY OF STEREOMICROSCOPICALLY VISIBLE ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN INCUBATED SPECIMENS OF MRNA PRODUCTS MAINLY FROM PFIZER AND MODERNA

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382358701_Real-Time_Self-Assembly_of_Stereomicroscopically_Visible_Artificial_Constructions_in_Incubated_Specimens_of_mRNA_Products_Mainly_from_Pfizer_and_Moderna_A_Comprehensive_Longitudinal_Study

    From page 47 of the pdf of the vaccine study:

    Wireless rechargers or external hard drives are useful and very common personal electronic devices. If recipient􏰃􏰁 of t􏰃he e􏰈xperimen􏰃tal injec􏰃tables􏰁 (v􏰄􏰅accine􏰁􏰆) ha􏰅ve t􏰃he􏰁se mat􏰃erials circu􏰉lat􏰃ing in t􏰃heir body and if they use these personal electronic devices, the devices themselves may, beyond routine electromagnetic field exposure, increase harm to their health, particularly to cellular regeneration, as the contents react synergistically with ambient radiation.
    If the injectable contents are designed, in part, to serve as both software and hardware for the clandestine construction of intracorporeal networks as Kyrie and Broudy (2022) suggest, the contents likely interact with electromagnetic energy fields outside the body.
    In the present developmental stage of mobile communications networks globally, we urge researchers to reproduce our efforts or setup alternative studies to better understand what remote effects there may be on human/animal/plant biology in the face of forthcoming 6G and 7G iterations of WiFi and LiFi.
    Despite rampant speculation in the literature regarding the use of COVID-19 injectable products and the development of wireless body area networks, abbreviated to WBAN (Jornet & Akyildiz, 2013; Jing et al., 2023), more interdisciplinary work is needed. Such studies would aid in the development of possible electromagnetic treatment modalities for recipients seeking alternatives to either standard chelation protocols or escaping entirely from an electromagnetic energy-polluted environment.

    From pdf page 60:

    Observational studies and comparative analysis suggest that intentional contaminations appear in the v􏰄􏰅accine􏰆 􏰅vials􏰁, in blood 􏰁sample􏰁s ext􏰈􏰃ract􏰃ed from test sub􏰁􏰉jects􏰃􏰁 ex􏰈po􏰁sed 􏰃to t􏰃he 􏰄􏰅vaccine􏰁,􏰆 and in t􏰃he subsequent shedding of synthetic biologicals (Woodruff & Maerkl, 2016).
    Both the morphology and behavioral characteristics of these observed phenomena suggest that far from being pure (Finn, 2011 p. 138), these injectables are composed of, hitherto, undisclosed additional engineered components responsive to a range of internal and ambient forms of energy, all of which are traceable to and described throughout the scholarly literature.

    Fallout evidence is starting to accumulate on the potential harm that the vaccines may have caused. Take for example the book released this summer titled TOXIC SHOT – Facing the Dangers of the Covid Vaccine by Byram Bridle Ph.D and Dr. Harvey Risch. Contributors to the book include:

    Matt Bain, MD
    Steven Hatfill, MD, MMed
    Peter McCullough, MD, MPH
    Jane Orient, MD
    Jessica Rose, PhD
    Josh Stirling, MBA
    James Thorp, MD
    Kelly Victory, MD
    Naomi Wolf, PhD
    Martin Wucher, DDS

    Several years ago I was looking for evidence of plans or opinions for the promotion of a depopulation strategy and I came across the EIR (Executive Intelligence Review), a very informative publication I considered a window into the past for predicting policy and events in the future.

    Back in the 70’s and 80’s depopulation was a big concern at the highest levels. As an example, the March 10, 1981 issue had an article titled:

    WHAT’S WRONG IN WASHINGTON: THE HAIG-KISSINGER DEPOPULATION POLICY.

    Depopulation was a big concern back then and I found many articles concerning depopulation on the EIR. It was reasonable to conclude that high level concerns would lead to strategy which would lead to technology which would lead to events.

    Could it be that the Covid Pandemic was the event preceded by the acquisition of technology preceded by a strategy which was preceded by high level concerns? In other words, these hi-tech vaccines were not experimental and were not rushed for benefiting the public in an emergency situation but were developed over many years for an event that evolved from a high level concern.

    A very special individual recognized the challenge:

    “Thus, once we successfully pierce some of the false narratives constructed by our dishonest media we should always consider the possibility that we are still trapped within another such layer of narrative, much deeper but equally false, and use the power of analogy as a tool to unravel those illusions.”

    Very well said. It is more than a destination, it is our journey.

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  12. ariadna says:

    I am surprised that Ron published this article, which will give commenters the opportunity to attack the “clot shot,” a topic that annoys him, on a controversy he considers definitively settled and closed.

    • Replies: @The Real World
    , @skrik
    , @Alden
  13. Bama says:

    Some vaccines are god sends( polio), others not so. Some diseases create a temporary immunity. The plague did not repeat often and yet sanitation was not available with no clean water, no clean toilets and disinfectants for hands.

    • Replies: @Poopsie
    , @Biff
  14. Poopsie says:

    It appears that cholera has been pretty much vanquished in the USA. Must be due to vaccine use. Oh, hold on a second!

    Let’s check what the CDC says about it.

    Cholera was prevalent in the United States in the 1800s. With modern water and sewer treatment systems, there are now typically fewer than 20 U.S. cholera cases a year…

    https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/about/about-cholera-in-the-united-states.html

  15. @Alden

    I believe that a MAJOR epidemic happening here is CANCER – in all its forms. One rarely hears about THIS in the MSM. Yet, there are millions of dollars available with which to construct the ever-growing number of cancer “treatment centers,” as well as for “research” on the causes and “cures” for various types of cancer.

    From what I’ve read on the subject, billions of dollars have been spent on breast cancer research, but “they” do not even know what causes it, and, of course, there is no real cure for it. Where has all this money for breast cancer research gone? No one knows; it’s JUST GONE!

    Thank you.

    • Replies: @Wayne Lusvardi
    , @Alden
  16. Linus says:
    @Alden

    I am sympathetic to your point here. But he addresses scarlet fever later in Pt. 2. What is your interpretation of this section? How do you interpret the graphs showing declining death rates prior to vaccination? It would help your argument if you could address this.

  17. Poopsie says:
    @Bama

    Some vaccines are god sends

    Depending on one’s point of view, probably all of them are, especially if Big Pharma is your thing.

    Regarding the godsend of the polio vax, that claim deserves investigation. E.g., remember the Cutter incident.

    Then there’s this.

    “Something momentous happened in the history of polio eradication in April 2016: … Dropping the type 2 component from the [polio] vaccine would end those [remaining polio types] cases as well, the thinking went.

    But “the switch,” as this global move has become known, became “an unqualified failure,” according to an unusually blunt draft report commissioned by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) that is now open for public comments. Unexpectedly, vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 has continued to circulate after the switch, paralyzing more than 3300 children. And GPEI has spent more than $1.8 billion trying to quash these outbreaks, mostly in Africa. Those numbers are certain to increase until the polio program finds a way to deal with the problem it inadvertently—and with the best of intentions—created.”

    https://www.science.org/content/article/unqualified-failure-polio-vaccine-policy-left-thousands-kids-paralyzed

  18. @ariadna

    Some people wake-up slowly. Perhaps Ron is now lifting from his slumber on this issue.

    I noticed a great many people, back in 2021 – 2022, who took the jabs, were very defensive about having done so. Even as they, or some people they knew, were getting diagnosed with new illnesses. They would deny the possible connection and thought it smarter to remain blind to reality.

    At this point, I can’t imagine there’s any American who hasn’t known many people battling new illnesses or having died from them since being jabbed. Often previously healthy people dying very quickly.

    Now, people in general don’t want to talk about the “vaxxes” at all! So, some have awakened.

    • Replies: @anarchyst
  19. bjondo says:
    @Pepé Le Pew

    Best cures for diseases such
    as Rothschild, Rockefeller:
    lynching, stoning, quartering.

    Should be done early.

    5ds

  20. @Alden

    There is no such diseases as smallpox, diptheria and leprosy. The pharmaceutical industry would just change names of diseases to make the claim that one disease was eliminated by vaccines but quietly would just rename it something else. Most of these rash skin diseases were from abject poverty and malnutrition. Pharma would hospitalize people with leprosy and give them a vaccine but also give them nutritious food and supplements, then claim they cured people of the disease.

    Polio is not a contagious-like disease. Its cause was environmental contamination from DDT and unsanitary drinking water. When municipal water departments came into existence to treat water for drinking and cooking, polio disappeared some 10+ years before the Salk Vaccine (which was ineffective). Nevertheless, school children had to take the polio vaccine in sugar cubes dispensed at public schools as a mandate.

    Vaccines are a social construction not biological immunization.

    You think I am wrong? Watch Russian naturopath doctor Kate Sugak’s documentary The Truth About Smallpox – LINK


    Video Link

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  21. @Brad Anbro

    All non-trauma disease has an origin in Leaky Gut and its accompanying Small Intestinal Bowel Overgrowth SIBO (a euphemistic term to disguise that poop from the large bowel is backing up through a compromised ileocecal valve and ascending back up 30 feet of the intestine into where digested food transfers transfers into the blood stream causing slow, insidious blood poisoning eventually resulting in death). Cancers, heart attacks and respiratory disease are just symptoms of leaky gut-SIBO. Even COVID is a neat trick to cover up leaky gut.

    Hey, oligarchs have known how to create plagues for centuries by stressing people, forced relocation, dehydration, malnutrition, or drugging, all of which compromise the gut. Weather has something to do with gut function, hence seasonal flu.

    You didn’t think the NIH and CDC were going to tell you what modernized plagues of Influenza or COVID really are did you, when their funding comes from the DOD and its germ warfare program? Sepsis comes from Endotoxins and Exotoxins from dead bacteria and fungi and are fecal based and transmission comes from the fecal-oral route mainly by eating foods with your hands rather than using utensils.

    Viruses have never been lab isolated or even seen in an electron microscope, because they are “obligate” – a medical term meaning a parasite that hides or is transported in a capsid and can’t be isolated from its host. Cancer occurs where tissue are dying often due to a cartilage deficiency or incontinence and then parasites form a nest around it to contain it from spreading until it becomes metastatic.

    I don’t have time or space to explain how tetanus infection (an anaerobic bacteria that thrives where there is no oxygen) can explain most sepsis.
    Read books by independent doctors Natasha McBride, MD, William Davis, MD, or Steven Gundry, MD.

  22. skrik says:
    @ariadna

    .. will give commenters the opportunity to attack the “clot shot,” a topic that annoys him

    Possibly, but the headline article only mentions mRNA once, and that ‘peripherally.’ Apropos mRNA, recall Holmes’ “The Dog that did not bark?” Mostly all quiet on the mRNA front, possibly indicating that there is still data being hidden [on excess mortality following receipt of mRNA – or if possible worse, ‘turbo’ cancers, say.] rgds

    • Replies: @ariadna
  23. If there was ever an every single time moment, it would be this one

  24. I haven’t read the article yet, but my take on mRNA tech is that it’s meant to serve as a template for developing new medicine, and can quickly be adapted to circumstance. Therein lies the problem, it’s meant to streamline the process to maximise profit and convenience, not to save lives. It benefits the industry, not mankind.

  25. Dutch Boy says:

    We will see all the deceptive strategies cited by Mr. Henderson on display at RFK, Jr.’s confirmation hearings. There will also be a generous helping of ad hominem arguments, always the favorite argument of politicians. I am skeptical that the obvious lies told by vaccine apologists are noble. Aside from the immense harm done by vaccines, the whole vaccine business has become so profitable that greed has pushed aside nobility. I am thinking in particular about creatures like Dr. Offit, who has become wealthy developing vaccines.

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
  26. Prolly true

  27. @Passing by

    There are diseases for which there is no vaccine and yet have almost disappeared.

    Such as? And what was their level of incidence compared to Diptheria, TB, measles, whooping cough, etc.

  28. @Wayne Lusvardi

    The name Steven Gundry is a red flag. His dietary advice is awful.

    • Replies: @Wayne Lusvardi
  29. ariadna says:
    @skrik

    The headline does not need to mention it. Just say the word “vaccine” and people will start talking/debating the one that wasn’t a vaccine…

    • Replies: @skrik
  30. ariadna says:
    @Wayne Lusvardi

    “I don’t have time or space to explain …”
    Thank God for small favors. You have already taken up space with utter nonsense.

  31. Agent76 says:

    November 15, 2024 Endorse Robert F. Kennedy Jr: The Covid “Killer Vaccine”.

    People Are Dying All Over the World. It’s A Criminal Undertaking. We Call Upon its Immediate Cancellation!  “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” said Donald Trump. 

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-covid-killer-vaccine-people-are-dying-all-over-the-world-its-a-criminal-undertaking/5800358 

  32. ariadna says:
    @Wayne Lusvardi

    “There is no such diseases as smallpox, diptheria and leprosy. The pharmaceutical industry would just change names of diseases to make the claim that one disease was eliminated by vaccines but quietly would just rename it something else.”

    There is no such disease as obdurate ignorance or assertive stupidity either. Yet the dismal level of basic eduction in the Western schools and now the internet, with its million of soap boxes, changed their names to make the claim they are “controversial opinions” or valid alternative views.

  33. @MGB

    See my reply to Comment #1 above regarding decrease in scarlet fever deaths. Wayne Lusvardi

  34. @QCIC

    What is your response to RFK’s point (or claim) that none of the recommended childhood vaccines was properly tested before it was licensed?

    Not the author, but RFK Jr. is just plain lying through his teeth when he describes current vaccine testing regimes including for children. In a way that’s so Manichean it’s clear he believes the people doing this at all levels, of all types, have at best a depraved indifference towards what happens with what they create. Which implies nothing good about what he’s going to try if he becomes part of the administration.

    Maybe it’s ignorance, depending on what others have told him, but it’s not at all hard to look up the truth, and wasn’t that hard before the Internet was available for things like https://clinicaltrials.gov/ I mean, he went to freaking Harvard, which has the best academic library system in the world! Its medical library is totally awesome.

    Thus RFK Jr.’s oeuvre is based on sentiment, not reason, and thus reason can’t be used to convince a third generation literal gangster like him, he’s a freaking Kennedy!!! See his failure to use reason in the proposal to stop natural gas production, Officially because it’s a feed stock of plastics.

    There’s absolutely a discussion to be had about plastics (although the research on microplastics is very poor in quality, like blindly choosing a wrong one to use as a model instead of examining (dead) humans to find out what’s actually accumulating), but this is akin to the “backyard furnaces” of Mao’s Great Leap Forward. A set of policies so stupid they killed tens of millions of people.

    Here JFK Jr. would indirectly shut down or make very expensive nitrogen fertilizer production in the US, and the general increase in the price of food would starve a lot of the population. Well, those survived winters without gas furnaces or 24×7 electrical power.

    If any net increase in health comes from RFK Jr. being part of this administration, it’s going to be entirely at random to the extent he isn’t successfully Resisted. It’s entirely possible he’s do something so dumb it will forever taint Trump/MAGA, ending for the foreseeable future any effective resistance to our ruling trash.

    Rather like how too much of the Right’s eternal lies since November 2020 about all COVID vaccines has convinced the rest of us you can’t be trusted with our future, however much you’re better than people who consciously desire to genocide us.

  35. Madbadger says:
    @Alden

    Amazing that the first comment is pro vaccine. Many of the diseases children are vaccinated for were never deadly. I’m 72 years old and had whooping cough, measles, mumps, chicken pox and various other things as a child. My mother as well as most parents, took us kids when I was four years old to visit someone who had measles. She wanted us to get the measles and get over it before we got too old. Everyone knew that measles was not deadly at a very young age. Although illness is not fun it was not considered deadly when I was a boy. That is part of the misinformation put out by vaxxers.

  36. @Henry's Cat

    At least Gundry gets the Leaky Gut aspect correct and he is independent of government funding. Leaky gut requires changing diet to connective tissue meats and cartilage (think pigs feet but chuck, shank, etc. also) rather than supplements. The gut lining is comprised of mucus, muscle and cartilage. Supplements are a poor substitute for food. But if you have Small Intestinal Bowel Overgrowth using appropriate probiotics may be of help otherwise we are subject to slow poisoning.

    • Replies: @Henry's Cat
  37. @That Would Be Telling

    Check it out: no vaccine study ever included a control group. So vaccines aren’t science based.

    • Agree: Truth Vigilante
    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
  38. @Linus

    But he addresses scarlet fever later in Pt. 2. What is your interpretation of this section? How do you interpret the graphs showing declining death rates prior to vaccination?

    Scarlet fever is a freaking bacterial infection! There’s no First World vaccine for it, although Wikipedia says there’s one from Argentina.

    You should entirely expect disease prevalence and resulting morbidity and mortality to generally go down based on generic pre-modern medicine public health measures. Here in the US that got really big after the War Between the States, but I haven’t studied this in any detail.

    This of course in part driven by realizing the germ theory of (much) disease was correct in the mid- to late 19th Century, but empirically I’m sure sanitary sewer and potable water systems were realized to be a good idea before them.

    Geeze, in general these fantasies including the rejection of the germ theory are First World Problems, from people who didn’t learn from their ancestors just how terrible things were before modern medicine, especially antibiotics. My mother is an early Silent Generation nurse who grew up on a farm, she was meticulous about sanitation et. al., especially in cooking.

    • Thanks: Alden
    • Replies: @Wayne Lusvardi
  39. anarchyst says:
    @The Real World

    Every person that has gotten the “clot shot” that I know has come up with illnesses, some new and some that were in complete remission for years, many cancers reasserting with a vengeance.
    I am reluctant to say “see, I told you so” to those who took the “clot shots” but I do so gently.
    I have always told people to do the research on your own, don’t believe the lugenpresse media and make your own decision regarding vaccines and therapeutics.

    • Replies: @The Real World
  40. anarchyst says:

    There is a solution:

    Abolish immunity for drug companies.

    If their products are safe, they should have no problem paying out for adverse reactions to their substances.

    • Replies: @ariadna
  41. @Wayne Lusvardi

    At least Gundry gets the Leaky Gut aspect correct and he is independent of government funding.

    So what does he get wrong?


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Wayne Lusvardi
  42. @Wayne Lusvardi

    Check it out: no vaccine study ever included a control group.

    What makes you think “pro-vaxxers” didn’t check this out??

    For COVID, the control group concept was publicized in the MSM, who talked to people who didn’t know which they got! But let’s go to clinicaltrials.gov which provides links to papers drilling down to the exact details of how many people got the vaccine being tested vs. a placebo (another great general and digested source of info is the FDA briefing documents prepared by staff for the recommendation committee):

    Study to Describe the Safety, Tolerability, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of RNA Vaccine Candidates Against COVID-19 in Healthy Individuals:

    This is a Phase 1/2/3, randomized, placebo-controlled….

    A Study of Ad26.COV2.S for the Prevention of SARS-CoV-2-Mediated COVID-19 in Adult Participants (ENSEMBLE)

    A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled….

    The latter by Janssen is particularly interesting, much more simple being only Phase 3, was very large in total participants, and had one instance of the clots in the veins that drain the brain very adverse effect. That was not enough data to down check it, by definition it took Phase 4 “post-marketing” by millions of people to find this more frequent, but not by much “one in a million” problem.

    Turns out adenoviruses are not a good vaccine vector, see also the Oxford clown show which AstraZeneca, a company with no vaccine experience, was arm twisted into producing. Sputnik V’s claims of no adverse effects of any type are not credible, but the inability by anyone to make the second dose in quantity made it mostly irrelevant on the ground (it used different serotypes for its two doses to prevent the immune system response from the first eating the second dose before it can do its job).

    Again, you prove anti-vaxxers cannot stop themselves from lying, you worship the prince of this world.

    • Thanks: Alden, Frau Katze
    • Replies: @Wayne Lusvardi
    , @QCIC
  43. pyrrhus says:
    @Alden

    The problem being that the polio vaccine, for example, has had no effect on polio cases in the US, but has caused polio and the Salk vaccine containing SV-40 caused a cancer outbreak…
    Not one vaccine has been subjected to a true safety test, or effectiveness test…and all vaccines can cause crib death…babies should not be vaccinated…

  44. Alden says:
    @QCIC

    They were tested except for smallpox. Back in the old days they just rubbed in cowpox pus. And once the cow pox pus was rubbed in no one got small pox Even back in southeast Europe in the 1600s.

  45. Alden says:
    @Brad Anbro

    Cancer is hereditary.

    • Replies: @Brad Anbro
  46. Covid-19 was one of the biggest scams and psyops in the the history of the world, covid-19 does not exist, it was colds and flu and pneumonia all rebranded as covid to scare the people into taking the genocide injections of MRNA , which has killed 10’s of millions and injured 10’s of millions and zionist front man Trump fronted for big pharma in rolling out this depopulation jab and Trump damn well knew it was a killer shot, but as usual he will do anything for the zionists, who were the ones behind this depopulation agenda.

    Zionists are destroyers of nations and humanity and they are proving it again in their genocide of the People of Palestine and Lebanon and Syria.

    • Agree: Quincas Borba
    • Replies: @Pepé Le Pew
  47. @Henry's Cat

    Disclosure – Gundry is my cardiologist. But he does not get anything in particular wrong but maybe supplements are less helpful than food. You say his food advice is bad, please provide an example otherwise we can’t have meaningful discussion.

    • Replies: @Henry's Cat
  48. @That Would Be Telling

    Look, we are talking past each other. Clarification – there were no control groups in the virus studies not the vaccines because the vaccines were approved without clinical trials. Is there such a thing as a corona virus? It has never been isolated or seen even in an electron microscope because it is a parasite that hides in a capsid and can’t be observed in isolation.

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
  49. Alden says:
    @Linus

    Scarlet fever was rampant as late in the 1930s. This thread is hysterical. 2020 Ron was adamant that the seasonal flu was some new and dreadful disease. Brewed up at Fort Derrick MD Brought to Wuhan China by American military and sprinkled around town by the Americans. He endorsed the clot shots. He urged everyone to be masked stay 6 feet from others. He and the other Men of Unz fell right into the government totalitarian regulations imposed on us proletarian cattle. I didn’t because I knew it was a total lie brewed up by the New York Times and those TV news programs I never watch.

    Covid regulations Just like the government imposed totalitarian TSA regulations on travelers after 9/11. Just like those WW2 movies of German soldiers in European train station bullying everyone.

    And the geriatric Kennedy worshippers are anti all vaccines excepts for COVID because someone with the Kennedy is against vaccines. A Kennedy with no medical or scientific credentials.

    • Replies: @Linus
    , @Truth Vigilante
  50. Anonymous[277] • Disclaimer says:
    @Alden

    the mainstream media are the ones who promote the “migrants carry tb” and other diseases bs as well. you’re a hypocrite, you pick and choose what you believe from tge msm. these childhood vaccines are destroying humanity both spiritually and physically, if you can’t see it then you haven’t done your research or are blind.

  51. Anonymous[277] • Disclaimer says:
    @Passing by

    people had those sicknesses due to working in mines and unsanitary factories, it has nothing to do with water. if anything, the water today is mostly polluted and not clean in any way.

  52. @Wayne Lusvardi

    Look, we are talking past each other.

    Only because every word you say is a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

    Here your pathetic bailey is that you misspoke, “no vaccine study ever included a control group” when vaccine clinical trials are obviously a subset of “vaccine studies.”

    Because it turns our you’re a virus truther, but that claim a dodge since there are plenty of vaccines against bacteria or bacteria toxins (TDaP for example for the latter).

    Is there such a thing as a corona virus? It has never been isolated or seen even in an electron microscope

    Are you for real? Electron microscope photos are what gave this class of viruses their name! The spike proteins are so big they appear to form a corona like the sun’s around the enveloped center of the virus.

    Plonk.

    • Agree: Frau Katze
    • Replies: @ariadna
    , @Wayne Lusvardi
  53. Linus says:
    @Alden

    Pretty weak evasion, man. Compare 1900 scarlet fever deaths vs. 1930 – aren’t there decreases beyond any vaccination campaign?

    I asked how you could explain the graphs showing declines prior to vaccination, and you are going off on C19? On Ron’s position back then? Who cares?

    The topic at hand is vaccination as per this author, not Ron. And you are complaining about Kennedy’s lack of CREDENTIALS – as if the credential class is anything other than the enemy?

  54. Agent76 says:

    JUL 22, 2024 Scientific Studies on Vaccine Injuries You want science? Here’s your science 

    I’m not a scientific researcher, data analyst, or medical professional. Neither are most of my readers. However I, and presumably they/you, are fully intellectually capable of reading and understanding the discussions and conclusions in most of the studies listed below. For those of you who prefer to skim, in most cases, after each link below, I include a short (2-3 sentence) summary of the study’s conclusions. 

     https://ladycasey.substack.com/p/scientific-studies-on-vaccine-injuries

  55. ariadna says:
    @anarchyst

    That immunity was one of the big red flags about the clot shot. Another was the secrecy of the content, supposed to remain sealed for some 75 years.

  56. @Alden

    Alden

    Bear in mind that you are reading the first of 7 parts. You may find your concerns adequately addressed throughout the subsequent installments. In this first installment I merely introduce the reader to this project with an overview, and I take pains to document the goal posts by giving numerous examples of vaccine advocates making historical mortality related claims.

    Beginning with the next essay installment (Part 2 – Apostasy), and continuing throughout the series, I test those historical mortality related claims that vaccine advocates make. At first the test is done by reviewing the material of other vaccine critics who have already tested those claims (This is what Part 2 is about), then, later I directly test the vaccine advocates’ claims myself, and expand the analysis by pulling the mortality data for more countries and cities from the respective archives, graphing it out, and juxtaposing it with vaccine introduction and coverage.

    So we begin with vaccine advocates’ historical mortality related claims – the evangelism. That’s what this first installment is all about; simply immersing ourselves in what the vaccine advocates are telling us, and compiling and documenting their claims.

    Then we put the vaccine advocates’ claims to the test by consulting the relevant data sources. That’s the apostasy, and that is conducted throughout the remaining installments of this series.

    Then we go another level deeper by surveying the responses from the pro-vaccine side. How do they respond to the vaccine critics who have put to the test the vaccine advocates historical mortality related claims? So we’re dealing with three levels:

    1st level. Vaccine advocates make their claims.
    2nd level. Vaccine critics criticize the vaccine advocates’ claims.
    3rd level. Vaccine apologists defend the vaccine advocates by counter criticizing the vaccine critics.

    Or – vaccine evangelists, apostates, and apologists.

    • Replies: @QCIC
  57. ariadna says:
    @That Would Be Telling

    Not true. The conjunctions and definite articles are correct.

  58. dearieme says:
    @That Would Be Telling

    OK. As I understand it his claim is that none of the childhood vaccinations that are compulsory in the USA were tested against a placebo in randomised controlled trials before their release.

    To prove him wrong why not point us to just such trials having been performed?

  59. @That Would Be Telling

    Oh stop with your assumptions. Show link to one real virus study where the methodology includes a control group, don’t just assume it.

    Electron microscopes only can see shadows through a mirror reflection not the real object. So would an electron microscope be able to show a virus in a capsid? It would all be a shadowy image.

    Can’t have an honest discussion with you even if I am wrong because of your taken for granted assumptions.

    • Agree: Quincas Borba
  60. QCIC says:
    @That Would Be Telling

    RFK has a high enough profile that it should be worth someone’s time to either add nuance to his claims about the lack of proper trials or refute them. Simply listing the trials and studies is no longer adequate since the number of flawed or tainted studies in modern medicine is known to be significant. In the post-COVID, poorly tested mRNA era, this should not be too much to ask of the medical community. Instead of making faces some independent researchers should do the study and show that no, about XX percent of the standard vaccines had reasonable trials and for YY percent the data are sketchy or outright missing. Maybe this work exists, I am looking for a link.

    Some of what you wrote makes the case for caution regarding vaccines in general and big pharma in particular. There have been numerous vaccines which were obviously inadequately tested since they were later removed from use due to side effect problems. I realize that initial wide release is actually the final stage of testing, but the fact that monitoring periods became longer as experience was gained shows that some researchers are not adequately cautious. The President Ford-era flu vaccine and some of the Polio vaccines appear to be poster children for this point. I have heard of numerous other vaccines which were removed from use due to problems. This also may be a strong criticism of the mRNA trials. History has shown that some side effects (or their complications) take time to show up. Expecting this with a very novel product is Science 101. Unfortunately the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) was used to justify the fast turnaround on the trials even after the mortality of the infection was shown to be low enough to probably void the EUA, not to mention other scandals.

    The mRNA travesty is a cross that strong pro-vaxxers must bear.

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
  61. @Wayne Lusvardi

    Avoiding foods that contain lectins on the basis that lectins are particularly detrimental to gut health.

    But could you explain what you mean by

    But he does not get anything in particular wrong but maybe supplements are less helpful than food

    What supplements are you referring to? In his role as your cardiologist, has he given you any dietary advice?

  62. QCIC says:
    @Jordan Henderson

    Jordan, thanks for your interesting article and approach. I am working my way through the sections. In any places do you discuss the explanations for the pre-vaccine reductions in mortality? Improved sanitation, clean water and improved nutrition are sometimes given credit. I am wondering if the details have been scientifically investigated.

    • Replies: @Jordan Henderson
  63. bjondo says:
    @QCIC

    …response to RFK’s point (or claim) that none of the recommended childhood vaccines was properly tested before it was licensed?

    For me doesn’t matter if properly tested then rabbi blessed,

    the number and types of vaxxines recommended/required

    by CDC are medically unwise, criminal, speaks of corruption.

    5ds

  64. Looger says:
    @Wayne Lusvardi

    Cancers, heart attacks and respiratory disease are just symptoms of leaky gut-SIBO. Even COVID is a neat trick to cover up leaky gut.

    The most unexpected (to me) part of Andrew Wakefield’s information and interview content, was how childrens’ gut health impacted his studies of autism. Many diagnoses of “autism” turned out to be sore stomachs, chronic pain, and children not being social or happy as a result.

    I was expecting some kind of “gotcha” provable link between vaccines and autism, but so many things are now “on the spectrum ” that it’s become murky.

    Gut health, more and more, is bring accepted by mainstream science / medicine as the cause of problems.

  65. belief were true, than the benefits

    played a primary roll in the drastic

    This is getting to be tough sledding. IS there QUALITY in here?

  66. anarchyst says:

    There have been many claims about the origin of viruses, especially today’s latest
    “COVID-19 coronavirus”.
    However, there is a long history of viruses throughout human history and false claims as to their points of origin.
    In fact, the “1918 Spanish flu” virus actually originated in the United States of America and was spread to Europe during the First World War, transmitted by the U. S. military during American military transports to Europe. It was an experimental meningitis “vaccine” which spread the disease. The commonly-accepted misinformation that this virus originated in Europe is false and can easily be proven by careful research.
    A majority of “1918 Spanish flu pandemic” deaths were not from the virus itself, but were from the then common practice of mask-wearing. In fact, “mask-wearers” were being buried by non-mask-wearers.
    You see, just as is the case today, breathing in one’s own exhalations is dangerous and is being promoted by the misguided government-imposed mandates to wear masks.
    99% of the deaths during the “1918 Spanish flu pandemic” were a result of bacterial pneumonia, NOT from the virus itself. As there were no treatments for bacterial pneumonia in those days, the death rate was horrendously high. Those who contracted the flu, but not pneumonia survived. As is the case today, almost everyone that dies with COVID-19 dies from complications from other causes, NOT from the virus itself.
    Fast forward to today, with our latest “COVID-19 pandemic”.
    Today’s “Chinese COVID-19 pandemic” actually originated at the American bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick Maryland and was purposely brought to China by an American military “trade delegation” where it was released into the Chinese population. Biowarfare at its worst…
    The “COVID-19 vaccines” being pushed are “game changers” as they are replete with substances which will materially change human DNA, unlike previous vaccines which were merely weakened or killed virus remnants which would evoke a protective antibody response.
    They are not “vaccines” in the traditional sense, but are “therapeutics”. In fact, the drug manufacturers changed their description of their poison “jabs”, claiming that they “lessen the severity” of COVID-19 symptoms.
    Sound familiar?
    Today’s “COVID-19 pandemic” is actually a “plandemic” that has been used to take down a legally elected president and to usher in a “new world order” in which medical tyranny will be used to subjugate an entire world population, using FEAR as a weapon.
    Today’s “pandemic” is misnamed as it does not meet the definition of a “pandemic” but is being touted as such for political reasons—nothing more. Observe non-medical types such as Bill Gates and others touting untested vaccines with questionable substances, mask-wearing, and other social restrictions such as (selective) business closures, lockdowns and social distancing.
    For one, Bill Gates is not a “doctor”, has no medical training, and is a major proponent of “depopulation”–genocide. Gates is a “silver spoon” recipient, both of his parents being proponents of forced sterilization and eventual world depopulation.
    In fact, Bill Gates’ “vaccination schemes” have resulted in not only diseases being spread, but the use of birth-control and sterilization agents surreptitiously being a part of Gates’ “vaccination” schemes without “informed consent” being a part of the vaccination protocol speaks VOLUMES. Recipients of Gates’ “vaccines” were not informed that they were being sterilized—a violation of the Nuremberg protocols on “informed consent”.
    Quite some time ago, the U S “Supreme Court” ruled that artificially constructed DNA sequences could be patented. As the COVID-19 “vaccines” contain artificially sequenced DNA it could easily be argued that once a person receives the mRNA “injection” he becomes the property of the artificially-constructed DNA “owner”–a slave.
    It is easy to see that there is much more going on than a response to a minor seasonal “flu virus”. Flu cases went down to ZERO when COVID-19 was rolled out.
    Its about CONTROL and eventual human genocide—nothing more. The “jabs” are genocidal poisons.
    WAKE UP PEOPLE!

  67. @QCIC

    In Part 5 – the Apologists, there’s a section titled “Unsubstantiated Claims About Modern Medicine.” There I go over some of the challenges involved in trying to pin down what did cause the mortality declines. Basically, so many things changed over the same time period that it would be very difficult to tease out one from another.

    Take nutrition, the better nourished the child the more resilient they are, but how much of a healthier weight would be due to higher quality food, vs a higher quantity of food, vs better water quality resulting in less diarrheal illness that depletes a child of nutrients? All those things are going on simultaneously with changes in child labor, breast feeding practices, urban air quality, and so forth. So there are a lot of chicken or the egg type questions with those mortality declines.

    I opted to cut most of what I wrote on it out of the essay; it was bogging the series down, and it’s not strictly necessary for my purposes. But I can certainly offer a few suggestions:

    Thomas McKeown’s 1979 book – The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis? Is a classic on the topic of what caused the mortality declines – numerous papers have been written since then but most of it is in response in some way to McKeowns book, so you can’t go wrong starting with his book (up till recently it could be read on the Internet Archive apparently not now – maybe interlibrary loan would be the best bet then).

    McKeown’s view was that nutrition was the single most important factor, he didn’t prove that, because again, there are so many different factors simultaneously at play that it’s hard to tell what contributed where, but he does make a good case in my opinion that it is likely that nutrition was the greatest factor.

    Clean water being a major player I don’t think anyone would dispute.

    Sanitation is a bit too unspecific to be helpful in my opinion. Take sewage systems, is the principal benefit there that it kept water from being contaminated with sewage? Then that would fall under Clean Water wouldn’t it? Or take better dairy practices, is the benefit there primarily higher quality milk, so maybe that falls more under the nutrition category. For analytical purposes I think it’s better to leave overly broad terms like sanitation to the side and instead list separately the specific areas that sanitation covers to avoid foggy concepts.

    Medicine is also overly broad in my opinion – when people attribute the mortality decline to medicine I would encourage them to provide relevant citations, that list specific examples of the medical interventions that they have in mind, along with some estimates of how widespread the intervention was, and how effective it was.

    Antibiotics are often listed, but they factor in much too late for most of the diseases, arriving after the majority of the mortality decline. That’s not to say they couldn’t of helped, just that they were absent when most the decline happened.

    Hope this helps.

    • Thanks: QCIC
  68. @That Would Be Telling

    Syllogism
    All science is bunk
    Therefore all scientists are_______

  69. @QCIC

    RFK has a high enough profile that it should be worth someone’s time to either add nuance to his claims about the lack of proper trials

    There is no nuance to add to his bald lies which assert all parties involved, academic, medical, pharma, and governmental have at best a level of depraved indifference requiring the removal of every one of them from the field, and redoing all drug and vaccine testing from scratch … who the hell could do it then? It reduces to an unsolvable people problem, no one can be trusted to do this, ever.

    Or we could observe that he’s lying and dismiss him as a crank, except that won’t be possible if he gets real power as Trump desires. If so, the 2024 election will in hindsight come down to who was more likely to kill millions of Americans, by idiocy or intent. No surprise, his uncle JFK came a hair’s breath away from the same with his string of foreign policy debacles that almost ended with a Soviet submarine captain starting nuclear WWIII. We would be better off banning the entire family from public life.

    We can skip the rest of your vague claims by noting your frank sociopathic Covidiocy, which is why I said the rest of humanity will never trust people like you with responsibility. That’s a cross you, personally and the rest of the Right must bear as long as the Right is so detached from reality and morality.

    • Replies: @Alden
    , @anarchyst
    , @QCIC
  70. @QCIC

    Food for thought my friend

    There are no long term studies/tests of any childhood vaccines with an un vaccinated control group, none.

    If there were long term studies of vaccines then they would be on going and we should be able to access the results.

    But they don’t exist (correct me if I’m wrong)

    They have in the past started these studies with a control group, but out of “fear” of the control group getting whatever disease the vaccine is supposed to prevent (how convenient for the pharm companies) the control group was vaccinated too.

    That makes the study totally useless to those getting injected, but gives a pass to the snake oil purveyors

    What does this mean?

    It means that none of these potions from the fake Jew controlled pharmaceutical industry have ever been tested for safety and effectiveness.

    I say we’re being deliberately poisoned

    BTW Pasteur has been proven to be a fraud

    • Replies: @QCIC
  71. John1955 says:

    Public transit workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each, federal jury decides

    https://abc7ny.com/post/bart-workers-fired-due-covid-vaccine-mandate-get-1-million-each-federal-jury-decides/15469448/

    Well, it is refreshing to know that I am not the only one anti-vaxxxer out there 😁

    Regretfully, instead of getting one cool million I wasted $20 ordering a blank Covid vax certificate from Etsy. Then filled it out myself. Then gave it to HR gal. That’s it.

    Who shall I contact to get back my $20 ?

    Where the hell is “Trust-the-Science” Homo Chimp Dr Fauci ? Disappeared like fart in the wind.

    If my $20 will not be reimbursed I will print my Etsy order and shove it up Dr Fauci well-worn a$$

    • Replies: @anarchyst
  72. Alden says:
    @Event Horizon

    Thank you. So rare to read an Unz comment based on personal information and observation. Back in the day people got TB just from moving into a home where someone with TB had lived.

    Kennedy worship is so strong on Unz the zombies believe an attorney NGO parasite is an expert on medicine.

  73. Alden says:

    Remember 3 years and 8 months ago this site was hysterical about Covid, the vaccines masking isolation and frozen dinners delivered or picked up at mass feeding sites. And the exponents Week one 1 covid patient week two 2 COVID patients week three 4 COVID patients week four 16 COVID patients week five 256 COVID patients until we’re all dead.

    And now on the word of a man with a law degree no medical or scientific knowledge a life long liberal grifter hustler NGO parasite with the magic Kennedy name Unz is against vaccines and pro TB polio smallpox diphtheria scarlet fever and other diseases once eradicated but Kennedy wants to bring back.

    The Unz readers seem to be prosperous but not rich. Which I define of family incomes of 300K a year take home spendable money not gross or 225 K a year take home spendable income not gross for a single person with no kids to support. And most of you are car owners who use them every day. Kennedy’s first parasite NGO was heavily involved in shutting an oil pipeline in the northern Midwest. The shutting of which caused gas prices to triple.

    It’s true that the end of believe in God and religion has led to worship of Mother Earth and trees, worship of sexual weirdos all sorts of lunatic new religions But this worship of Kennedys and believing everything they say is like little kids believe in Santa Claus.

  74. Liza says:
    @Alden

    Acute illnesses are not caused by lack of vaccination. You need to read the book (the updated version) Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries & Roman Bystrianyk. (You won’t, though.)

    No more casting of pearls before swine for me.

    • Replies: @Alden
  75. Alden says:
    @That Would Be Telling

    The despicable Kennedys are far left democrats not rightists. The sacred president John Kennedy blessed be his name was the first anti White affirmative action president. In fact he created the term affirmative action

    . In his infamous Executive Order 10925 gleefully signed March 6 1961 less than two months after his inauguration. Every federal agency every federal contractor any state or local government that gets any federal money and any other entity such as universities hospitals NGOs that gets federal money SHALL take affirmative action to hire negroes.

    It was president Kennedy’s DOJ headed by brother Robert that greatly accelerated school desegregation and busing. Concentrating on the northern cities where the democrat voters lived.

    Affirmative action negro worship black savages bullying White children and total destruction of the reliable heart of the democrat party; the big cities by the blacks so beloved by the Kennedys

    That’s what the Kennedys and the democrats did.

    But the idiot Men of Unz worship the name Kennedy the way Protestant hillbillies worship Israel

  76. anarchyst says:
    @That Would Be Telling

    The only concern I have about RFK is his own biases. He may attempt to curtail truly effective treatments that he does not agree with. For one, he is not a doctor.
    What he should do is remove the blanket immunity that drug companies presently enjoy. This one move would do more to reign in the industry than just about any other action.
    If I had my way…
    A two-tier system for access to prescription drugs would be established.
    If going through a medical professional one would be protected, having the ability to sue for adverse reactions.
    Procuring drugs without a prescription would be permitted. The ability to sue for damages would not be allowed.

  77. anarchyst says:
    @John1955

    During the COVID plandemic, vaxx card files were available for free as pdf files on the internet. Printing them on card stock, one could not tell the fake from the real thing…

  78. Biff says:
    @Bama

    “Some vaccines are god sends( polio), ,”

    Turtles all the way down – Everywhere nerve agent pesticides went, crippled children followed. The polio virus is harmless.

  79. QCIC says:
    @That Would Be Telling

    I am not on the Right and am no fan of RFKJ.

    Kennedy has amplified some troubling points made by others. If his rhetoric is too strong that is fine, just look at the bigger picture. The best you could say might be, “Yeah, vaccines have known side effects, we’re sorry your kid has brain damage, that’s just tough luck. It’s for the greater good!” If some broken parent asks you, “Well what is the incidence of brain damage? Since you people knew of this life crushing side effect are there contraindications for the vaccine and oh, by the way, what are the real benefits? Please show me the data so that I can sleep knowing my kid at least got a fair chance at life.”

    I realize these points are at least occasionally given lip service, but that is not good enough.

  80. @anarchyst

    do the research on your own, ………. and make your own decision regarding vaccines and therapeutics.

    Agreed. But, people need to open their minds to ALL of what is recommended to them by the medical establishment.

    So many people I know who use those dang CPAP machines! Those things are an annuity racket. Breathing is literally our most basic human function. THAT MANY people are not having inherent breathing problems. There are lame home sleeping tests and WHO validates the methodology of those tests? Hey, who owns the testing companies? Probably the CPAP manufacturers. See what I mean? (Btw, dairy products often cause a lot of nasal and throat mucus and most alcohols have histamines in them that create very stuffy nasal passages. Hello? There are the problems that disrupt sleep.)

    How about the stunning number of joint replacements people get? It’s crazy. Some need them while, I think, many do not seek alternative methods to solve their problems before going under the knife. The Doc won’t tell them – they make no money if you solve the issue alternatively.

    YES! Question all of it so, you actually understand WHY you are taking that med or submitting to that surgery.

  81. QCIC says:
    @2stateshmoostate

    I understand your position.

    I’m confident there are serious vaccine trials in some cases and I believe at least some of these were completed in a reasonable manner with promising results. On the other hand I agree that some trials have been corrupted by vaccinating the control group, unblinding or monkeying with the data. Some researchers in this area must have done some digging.

    • Replies: @2stateshmoostate
  82. @That Would Be Telling

    That Would Be Trolling (TWBT) is up to his old tricks again with this falsehood of his:

    Not the author, but RFK Jr. is just plain lying through his teeth when he describes current vaccine testing regimes including for children.

    I ask UR readers to take the time and watch all of this short video and tell me, if it’s RFK Jr that’s doing the lying or the known-to-be-mendacious TWBT who is telling whoppers:

    Video Link
    I have been following the output of RFK Jr and his Children’s Heath Defence organisation for many years, beginning well before the Covid Psyop was foisted on the world.
    And I can state that HE HAS NOT GOT A SINGLE THING WRONG ON VACCINES in that entire period.

    He’s a lawyer, and is VERY careful in what he says (for fear that he may be sued by ZOG owned Big Pharma for any misstep), and he ALWAYS crosses his t’s and dots his i’s.
    He never says anything on this issue unless he is 100% sure.

    UR readers will also get something out of this article titled ‘Childhood Vaccine Schedule Led to ‘Greatest Decline in Public Health in Human History’ by the brilliant Dr. Joseph Mercola:

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/05/joseph-mercola/childhood-vaccine-schedule-led-to-greatest-decline-in-public-health-in-human-history/

    Lastly, we have this article titled ‘Autism Rates Skyrocket with Intensified Childhood Vaccination Schedules’ by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, and Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH:

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/no_author/autism-rates-skyrocket-with-intensified-childhood-vaccination-schedules/

    I recall watching a video a year or so featuring Dr Peter McCullough, where he was speaking about the obvious link between the child vaccination schedule in the U.S and the catastrophic rates of autism (watch the couple of minutes beginning at 25:00 in the clip below):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG38_53SEbU&t=715s

    Video Link
    In that interview McCullough went on to say there was a huge correlation between the high incidence of LGBTQ outcomes and those diagnosed with autism. (Also watch the few minutes from 20:00-23:40 for his opinion on the Covid vaccines).

    • Thanks: Agent76
    • Replies: @vinteuil
  83. @Desert Fox

  84. @Alden

    And the geriatric Kennedy worshippers are anti all vaccines excepts for COVID because someone with the Kennedy is against vaccines.
    A Kennedy with no medical or scientific credentials.

    Typical Jewess that Alden is, she takes every opportunity to smear any and all Kennedy’s.
    She recognises that JFK came the closest of all American POTI (is that a plural of POTUS?), to bringing about the demise of ZOG.
    And she will hate him until the day she dies.

    As for RFK Jr having no medical credentials, what difference does that make, in view of what I have to say below?

    After all, Bobby Jr is just the MESSENGER.
    He collects the info coming from the best physicians not beholden to ZOG in the world (and I do mean the VERY BEST), like Dr Peter McCullough, Dr Pierre Kory, Dr Robert Malone, Jay Bhattacharya, Sucharit Bachti, Wolfgang Wodarg, John Ioannidis, Dr Roger Hodkinson and countless others, and relays that info to us (info which the ZOG owned authorities have been deliberately hiding from us).

    So, my mischievous little Jewess, let’s have a brief look at Peter McCullough’s bio, and you tell me if he’s not qualified to be speaking up on the lethal clot shots:

    Professor at Texas A & M College of Medicine, President, Cardiorenal Society of America, Editor-in-Chief, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, Senior Associate Editor, American Journal of Cardiology and others.

    He has written 46 peer-reviewed publications on COVID-19 and is considered among the world’s EXPERTS on the topic, testifying in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in November 2020, and throughout 2021 in the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, in the Colorado General Assembly, and in the New Hampshire Senate, concerning many aspects of the pandemic response.

    He’s an epidemiologist and in those fields he specialises in (Cardio/Renal), he is the most published medical professional in the world, in HISTORY.

    This man is held in high regard all over the planet. That’s not just my opinion.
    The European Parliament thought so too, and invited him to speak there about the Covid vaccines in this reasonably brief interview (packed to the gills with important info), that everyone needs to hear:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3StJGMs0Q4

    Video Link

    (If the video above does not appear in your location, seeing as You Tube has been purging some of McCullough’s output, you can find it on Rumble under ‘Peter McCullough European Parliament speech’ or something like that – approx a 17 min video from memory).

  85. @QCIC

    If you are correct that there are these studies, I have been unable to find them

    Not to mention, If there are these ongoing tests the Pharmaceutical industry would be holding them up to the world so as to prove that vaccines actually work, but where are they?

    It is my contention that there are not any long term tests

    As I said in my comment all the test subjects get the vaccine eventually. Therefore the study is invalid

    Here’s a doctor that convincingly presents the other side of the story.


    Video Link

    • Thanks: QCIC
    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  86. Here’s something more to consider when deciding on whether or not to vaccinate your kids:

    Meanwhile, in relation to the Covid Psyop, as bad as the western MSM was in the aftermath of the vaxx rollout, there were a few honest media entities that told us the unvarnished truth about the collateral damage from the clot shots:

    Many of you will be aware that the cost of a typical plane ticket went through the roof after the vaxx rollout and flying restrictions were lifted.
    A major contributing factor was the shortage of airline pilots – some of whom refused to take the clot shot and were fired.

    But many more did take the experimental mRNA gene therapies that masqueraded as Covid vaccines, and suffered a worse fate.
    This prevented* them from flying as a result of cardio related afflictions (as this article titled ‘Pentagon data shows heart failure spiked nearly 1,000% among pilots in 2022’ clearly demonstrates):

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pentagon-heart-failure-spiked-1000/?utm_source=popular

    • Replies: @2stateshmoostate
  87. Ed Case says:

    The Australian author Greg Beattie discusses in detail an Australian show, Norman Swan’s The Health Report (Radio National – ABC), directed by a respected pediatrician which walks you through an old cemetery,…

    Norman Swan is a medical doctor, but he isn’t a pediatrician and hasn’t practised medicine since he began at rhe ABC Radio Health Reportin the early 80s.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Swan

    Swan was awarded the Gold Walkley in 1988 for revealing scientific fraud conducted by gynaecologist William McBride. Swan’s investigation sent “shock waves throughout the medical world” and led to McBride’s deregistration as a medical practitioner.

    • Replies: @Jordan Henderson
  88. @2stateshmoostate

    What a good girl Dr Sam Bailey has been throughout the Covid Psyop.

    This Kiwi lass has been telling the truth from the get go, in a simple to understand manner that even the layman can comprehend.
    UR readers would be well advised to look at her You Tube channel and see for themselves the great output she’s produced* over the last few years:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyD52JnQnXkLe5HGm4IArHw

    (*A lot seems to have been taken down. But the You Tube link directs you to her Substack where you can get the good stuff).

    • Agree: 2stateshmoostate
  89. @Truth Vigilante

    Yes.

    Just reading your comment should be enough to cause any rational person to think twice on having their child injected

    Once one begins to suspect that vaccines not only don’t work, but are actually dangerous.

    Then it won’t be long before one begins to question the entire western medical establishment and those that promote it (the Jewish Press)

    This is serious business.

    • Agree: Truth Vigilante
  90. @Alden

    What an OUTSTANDING reply to my comment!

    Regarding cancer being hereditary, neither of my grandmothers had cancer, although both of my grandfathers died from it. My mother had cancer, while my father did not. My mother smoked, but not nearly as much as my father did. Neither my sister nor I (yet) have cancer; she is 74 and I am 73 years of age.

    Back in the 1910s and 1920s, people rarely came down with cancer. And they smoked and chewed tobacco at least as much as they do now; probably more.

    You completely missed the gist of my post. The various forms of cancer are at EPIDEMIC LEVELS here in the USA, BILLIONS of dollars have been raised and spent on “cancer research,” and the CAUSE(S) of cancer is/are not even known and certainly there are no cures. And there will be NO CURES, if the fraudulent pharmaceutical and medical INDUSTRIES have their way – there’s just too much money to be made in the “fight” against cancer.

    The United States is spending more money on medical treatment and “medicines” than ever before and the citizens of this country ARE SICKER than they have ever been. My cousin, who is the same age as myself and a retired registered nurse AGREED with the statement that I just made.

    “Cancer is hereditary.” OK. Thank you for all your wisdom!

    • Agree: Quincas Borba
  91. @Brad Anbro

    I agree

    The medical establishment in the West is not about helping people

    It’s about Kulaking people

    It is simply making money off of mass murder.

  92. Alden says:
    @ariadna

    Ron reads and believes the New York Times.

  93. vinteuil says:
    @Truth Vigilante

    It has long been obvious that TWBT is a bought & sold big pharma shill.

  94. @Linus

    There is no vaccination for scarlet fever. It’s controlled with antibiotics.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_fever

    • Replies: @Jordan Henderson
  95. @Dutch Boy

    I am thinking in particular about creatures like Dr. Offit, who has become wealthy developing vaccines.

    Lie spread by RFK Jr.

    https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy

    (Free to read.)

    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  96. @Ed Case

    Here are a couple excerpts where we can see Dr. Norman Swan presented as a pediatrician or reference to his training in pediatrics.

    “One of the best ways to become a better health journalist is to find out what the best in the biz are doing — and then make it your own. Great health journalism is happening all over the world, and, with his diverse, far-reaching résumé, pediatrician and broadcast journalist Norman Swan demonstrates the breadth of what journalists can accomplish.”

    https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2018/09/australian-physician-journalist-offers-pearls-for-health-journalists/

    “A qualified doctor, Swan worked in paediatrics before moving into journalism and joined the ABC in 1982. (ABC archives)”

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/redirects/backstory/2020-11-05/abc-dr-norman-swan-daughter-anna-trauma-coronacast-covid19/12846668

    Now it is true that it has been a long time since he practiced, he is more of a celebrity doctor/health journalist type. I suppose we could quibble how best to describe influential doctors that use their credentials and background primarily for journalistic purposes, but I don’t think it’s worth splitting hairs over this.

    The point remains the public is receiving these messages (Graveyard Gambits, Lifespans Lectures, etc) from many sources including trusted health authorities.

    If Dr. Norman Swan is for some reason an inadequate example in your opinion, the same point can easily be made by simply reviewing the very similar claims made by other pediatricians. Other pediatricians documented making Graveyard Gambits in my essay include:

    1. Dr. Ari Brown, documented in the first essay installment (above) as Exhibit A of vaccine evangelism.

    2. Dr. Luis Velazquez, documented in the 7th essay installment as Exhibit W of vaccine evangelism.

    3 Dr. Pyhllis Townsend, documented also in the 7th essay installment as Exhibit Y of vaccine evangelism.

  97. @Frau Katze

    Linus is responding to Alden’s comment because Alden claims this:

    “This site gets worse and worse. The Men of Unz have been protected all their lives by their childhood vaccinations. Not having children they can advocate ending vaccinations. Because only other peoples children will die of diphtheria scarlet fever polio smallpox and TB.”

    Now among other things Alden is here implying that vaccines are what is keeping these disease from killing children, and he mentions scarlet fever among them.

    As you point out there is no vaccine for scarlet fever (well technically there was but it was such a failure and so little used that usually you see places like Wikipedia and government health websites just say that there is no vaccine – I go over this in the scarlet fever section of Part 2 of this series).

    So what we have here is a fairly extreme example of someone (in this case Alden) crediting a vaccine for being the reason that scarlet fever is no longer a major killer, but of course that can’t be as what scarlet fever vaccines there were, were used only sporadically and ultimately abandoned.

    Alden does this too with tuberculosis, implying that we have vaccines to thank. There is a tuberculosis vaccine (BCG), but it was never incorporated into the routine immunization program in the USA and most people in the USA haven’t received it (I go over this a little also in Part 2 of this series).

    So why would someone automatically believe a vaccine is the reason a given infectious disease is no longer being such a killer? Especially for diseases such as tuberculosis in the USA and scarlet fever?

    Well that’s what the first part of this essay is all about; establishing why people end up with these vaccine beliefs that are not supported by the hard data. The belief that I (somewhat mockingly) call the Doctrine of Salvation Through Vaccination.

    All those examples I just gave in the essay above of doctors, pediatricians and journalists crediting vaccines for the steep historical mortality decline in infectious disease show us why people believe this – it’s what they’re told.

    In the subsequent installments I put those historical mortality and vaccines claims that health authorities make to the test.

    All seven parts are available here on the Unz Review. With links to each one at the beginning of this article.

    I have a subsection in the second part titled “A brief note on scarlet fever and antibiotics.” I think you would find it interesting.

  98. @Frau Katze

    Lie spread by RFK Jr.

    UR readers be warned.
    The Jewess Katze is yet another mendacious sayan posting B.S in the commentary.

    Everything I’ve read from her is either a distortion or a bald-faced lie.
    This woman knows no other way.

  99. The following video featuring Jimmy Dore did not start off on the topic of the Covid vaxx, the lies we were fed by the ZOG controlled establishment or the Covid tyranny that was imposed on us – but it certainly segued in that direction in a hurry.
    It began with the matter of social media censorship and how the shitlib Democrats want to muzzle what’s being said there.

    Watch the minute or two from 1:40-3:15 in the video below, as Jimmy Dore conducts one of his trademark rants that exposes how we’d all be f*cked if it weren’t for what remains of freedom of speech on the internet:

  100. I’m not necessarily anti-vax, if some truly dreadful new disease became rampant I would consider the possible side-effects of a vaccination worth the risk, however covid-19 is not that disease. At the time of outbreak I had access to (by then almost-)uncensored social media(LiveLeak), so I believed MSM covid narrative to be unreliable and coercive.

    By the time South Africa went into lockdown I was already sure that social distancing and masks were ineffective, and that covid only posed a danger a minority of people, those with comorbidities like old age or overweight or other existing health problems. No need for a vaccine then, unless you were afraid, which I totally get, just don’t expect me to be afraid. That’s how it turned out too, covid was no worse than the flu, and a few days of bed rest was enough to recover fully.

  101. @Alden

    There’s the principle of vaccination, there are vaccines, there are adjuvants in vaccines, among them aluminum, there are debilitating diseases, there are non-debilitating diseases, there are diseases that a child risks catching, there are diseases that a child doesn’t risk catching, there are childhood diseases that a child will catch, get over them and remain immune to them for the rest of his life and there are vaccines against those diseases that provide immunity for a limited period of time.
    Is it reasonable to vaccinate newborns and inject aluminum in their bodies and their not fully configured brains when the risk that they catch the diseases against which they are vaccinated is nil b/c for heaven’s sake, they’re newborns, they don’t run around picking up diseases and the only people in close contact with them are their parents? Is it reasonable to vaccinate a toddler against hepatitis B knowing that by the time a child will become at risk to catch it, it will have to be renewed and knowing that the vaccine doesn’t cure people who already carry the virus? Is it reasonable to vaccinate a toddler against mumps knowing that after getting it, immunity is for life while the vaccine must be renewed every ten years? Who is at greater risk to suffer the life altering consequences of mumps after childhood, the kid who’s had them or the kid who inherited his mother’s immunity like I did or the kid who was vaccinated?
    Vaccination must be a case by case decision, it must be voluntary and for Christ’s sake, how on Earth can anyone think that it is a good idea to jab kids against a dozen diseases before they can even walk or talk and before they get the chance of having their immunity develop naturally? It’s actually the surest way to create addicts to big pharma crap b/c they won’t be able to get over a mild cold without ransacking the nearest pharmacy.

  102. skrik says:
    @ariadna

    people will start talking/debating the one that wasn’t a vaccine

    Entirely reasonable, and to be applauded. Mr Unz is very tolerant, but dislikes responding to some of the challenges from ‘the floor.’ Here, presumably the headline author [or his representative] does the moderating, and what we see so far seems quite reasonable. rgds

  103. Meanwhile, we still hear from time to time the pro-vaxx cultists who will assert that Covid killed more than a million Americans and how it was necessary to take a chance on this experimental mRNA ‘vaccine’ because the rate of mortality from the coronavirus was so high.

    Of course that was complete B.S.

    UR readers should watch the 9 mins of the following interview (from 35:30-44:20) from The Tom Wood Show, and see for themselves how the official Covid mortality tallies were faked:

    If that doesn’t satisfy you, watch the following 44 sec video and hear for yourself an admission by a public health official (Director: Dept of Public Health Illinois) of the preposterous methodology they employed in counting Covid deaths:

    SIMPLY PUT: People who died WITH* Covid were classified as having died FROM Covid.
    (*Which was all the more ridiculous in light of the fact that the PCR test, when run at high cycle thresholds – as they were in all western countries – was notoriously unreliable and was known to produce up to 97% false positives).

    Hence the reason for the massively inflated figures of Covid mortality in the U.S – which was NEEDED to scare the bejeezus out of the gullible masses into taking the toxic clot shots.

    • Replies: @acementhead
  104. My apologies, in relation to the last comment of mine.

    I forgot to include the following 44 sec video which demonstrates the LUDICROUS manner in which Covid mortality was tallied:

  105. @Truth Vigilante

    Thanks for this me Vigilant mate.

    Here are two graphs(from Macrotrends) that show that statistically ZERO people died from ‘covid’ in the UK or the US. These don’t show ‘not many’ they show ZERO. Deaths actually FELL during the covid crime against humanity.

    The Diamond Princess showed us in advance that there was no cause for ANY concern. The Macrotrends graphs prove it in real time.

    https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate

    https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/death-rate

    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  106. @acementhead

    As I’ve come to expect from you my knowledgeable Kiwi friend, excellent stuff.

    Meanwhile, here’s a book every one should read to get up to date with what really went on during the Covid Psyop. It’s titled ‘DIARY OF A PSYCHOSIS: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania’ – a title which pretty much sums up what went on all over the western world during this period.
    (I recommended it to Ron Unz some time ago, but he is yet to confirm if he purchased it/read it):

    It is written by Tom Woods Phd (someone who Ron Unz knows well – Ron has appeared on Tom’s podcast in the past for an interview).
    Tom is a highly acclaimed author, a graduate of Harvard and Columbia (postgraduate), and one of the lead authors of the Ron Paul Home School Curriculum.

    Tom is one of the great libertarian minds on the planet. Proof of that is his being honoured with the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award in Vienna in 2019 – the most prestigious prize in its field.

    The back cover of the book has these glowing appraisals from prominent individuals:

    ‘Tom Woods has done Americans a great service by publishing Diary of a Psychosis. The COVID-19 pandemic was studded with a countless array of policy decisions, and it’s easy to forget just how authoritarian, overbearing and senseless nearly every government was.
    Tom captures every important moment. Lovers of freedom whose memories may not be as good as his will benefit from reading this book and refamiliarising themselves with just what we are up against.’
    …. Dr Joesph Ladapo (Surgeon General of Florida).

    ‘Tom was a voice of reason and science throughout the pandemic’.
    ….. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD (Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University – and one of the lead signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration).

    ‘Tens of millions of Americans believed they were ‘saving lives’ by wearing masks and denouncing their neighbours. Diary of a Psychosis tells that story complete with all the shocking details, and it demolishes the case for the restrictions so mercilessly that you almost feel sorry for Dr Fauci – almost.
    On this topic my friend Tom Woods is at his best: informative, entertaining, and flat-out devastating. You will not want to put down this outstanding book!’
    ….Dr Ron Paul MD, Former U.S Congressman from Texas.

    For those among you that prefer to see Tom Woods in the flesh (he is an outstanding orator), watch this 20 min video titled ‘The Covid Cult | Thomas E. Woods, Jr’, as Tom delivers a masterclass:

    https://rumble.com/vb4ni9-the-covid-cult-thomas-e.-woods-jr..html

  107. UR readers need to watch the following video titled ‘IS THE COVID VACCINE CAUSING TURBO CANCERS?’, as Del Bigtree interviews the brilliant Dr William Makis:

    https://rumble.com/v3jxx2d-is-the-covid-vaccine-causing-turbo-cancers.html

    Also we have the much anticipated film: ‘VAXXED III: AUTHORIZED TO KILL (Children’s Health Defense)’ which came out recently:

    https://odysee.com/@AmalekInternational:6/Vaxxed-3-Authorized-To-Kill:2

    The last video above is especially important because, over and above the deaths caused by the toxic clot shots, it details the countless scores of thousands (and likely hundreds of thousands) that were killed by the hospital protocols.

    A must watch.

  108. @Brad Anbro

    The vast majority of people eat chemicals labeled as food. Soda isn’t a food and shouldn’t be consumed. The ‘snack foods’ shouldn’t exist because snacking is what makes people fat. If there was a gov’t looking out for its people, there would be no food or drink that contained any chemical concoctions like preservatives, coloring, artificial flavoring, etc. The EU got rid of Germany’s Reinheitsgebot, the purity law that made German beer some of the best in the world.

    People get sick when they eat things that aren’t food and drink things that aren’t from nature. The grocery stores have whole isles full of artificial garbage like Doritos, Twinkies, Gatorade, kids cereals full of sweeteners, chemicals and color added, manufactured ‘dinners’, etc. If people were to stick to the vegetable isle, the meat counter and pick up artisinal bread, drink pure water, uncontaminated beer and wine, they would be fine.

    People have been drinking coffee, beer and wine for thousands of years; the test of time says they are fine. The ‘blue zones’ around the world are testament to how people should eat.

  109. Wild Man says:

    I am posting this comment here, as per Unz`s directive that no covid vaxx comments will be tolerated at The Unz Review except under articles listed under the ‘Anti-Vaxx Articles’ banner.

    In the interest of credibility-reputation among trusted commentators all round, which is becoming a big big deal now, with respect to interpretations of the true intentions of the incoming Trump admin (around this incoming admin’s seeming ‘Israel First’, and perhaps even ‘Greater Israel First’ international policy, for instance), I do note that this credibility-reputation issue has not been even remotely fully investigated with respect to the overall covid rhetoric emanating for many otherwise trusted commentators. In that vein, here is a recent article on just that (credibility, all round, with respect to mandated covid interventions):

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-most-devastating-report-so-far/

    I do not see how Unz can continue to ignore the destruction of his own credibility-reputation, by his own actions, in this vein (ie. – within the vein of his idiotic anti-vaxxer rhetoric, whereby he chose to paint every commenter who had issues with the interventions, with the same brush). It bugs me alot that I never claimed anything beyond what is now becoming well known, with respect to these stupid mandated covid interventions, including the vaxx coercion, yet Unz refuses to come clean or apologize but seems to instead often just choose to censor (without answering queries). To my mind Unz should be ashamed of himself on this front. An apology and an explanation (for said rhetoric) would go a long way with respect to clearing the air around Unz’s credibility-reputation.

    I would be alot more willing to be an advertising agent for TUR, telling everyone I know (and don’t know), far and wide, to read here, … maybe even post notices all over my City about unz.com (I ride the bike alot so this would be an easy task for me), as Unz has professed he would very much like to see (much wider readership here), with respect to unz.com being Grand Central Station for all things ‘Jewish Question’ related. But an issue of trust still remains unresolved. I am sure he could get back pret near all the trust he squandered among the commentariat here, if he would finally address this. He must realize that commenters here, would be among his best new-readership-interest-manna-makers, if trust could be restored. Unz has invested alot of time here at TUR. So have many many commenters. It is a shame to let that invested effort, both ways, be so squandered. If it is an issue of arrogance, well, … what does Unz ultimately want? To uphold unwarranted personal arrogance, or more readership?

    • Replies: @Alden
  110. Alden says:
    @Liza

    No, I won’t read a book advocating a return to polio diphtheria and even smallpox. Dr Suzanne I bet she and any children she has are vaccinated.

  111. Alden says:
    @Wild Man

    I dunno know about recommending people read UNZ. I’ve recommended UNZ to maybe 30 men middle aged to mid teens. And they all, everyone think both the articles and commenters are” a buncha crazy old farts”

    Someone mentioned “ doing your own research “ about vaccines. How can the Men of Unz do medical research? Via google? Most of you live about 300 miles from a medical library. . How could you possibly do research? You’re anti vaccine because your zombie brains are attached to the Kennedy name the way old Mexican women are attached to their favorite saint

    There’s no difference from the my kid has autism fad of the 1990s and 50 percent of kids desperately need transgender surgery puberty blockers and life long hormone and psychiatric treatment free on Medicaid of today . Latest fad is abolish vaccinations because diphtheria smallpox scarlet. fever whooping cough and TB no longer exist.

    TB does still exist and there’s a vast increase due to immigration from TB ravaged countries. But it’s kept very quiet because America can’t possibly blame immigrants for the rise in TB.

    I never had the COVID vaccination because I knew it was a fraud from the start. From hysteria about everyone must be vaccinated against COVID to vaccines should be abolished because you’re so credulous naive and ignorant to believe a life long NGO grifter hustler with no medical knowledge whose never had a real job in his life claims vaccines are bad. What’s wrong with old people that they believe anything a Kennedy days.

    One of Kennedy’s first NGO grifts was ending a sorely needed gas line. You Kennedy worshippers must also love John and Robert Sr Kennedy’s infliction of affirmative action and school de segregation while they sent their kids to private schools and had no need to ever apply for a job.

    Just form a Delaware non profit hire a grant writer sit back and let the tax deduct able donations flow in.

    And it’s very evil for people who don’t have children and never will have children to crusade against vaccines. Just as it’s evil for woke faggot progressive childless scum to crusade to take away parental rights and have some scum school teacher take kids for transgender treatments .

    Kids can’t even get their ears pierced without parental consent. But some childless school teacher can take them to a trans treatment t center without parental permission.

    Amazing 2020 the Men of UNZ were all getting COVID fraud vaccines going about masked and believed COVID was real. Now you’re all crusading to end vaccines and going back to diphtheria polio scarlet fever and TB epidemics

    The Kennedy family was nothing more than the work of master of publicity old Joe Kennedy. Whose publicity machine used exactly the same methods his RKO studios used to create their movie stars back when he was a movie producer.

    You all believed the COVID fraud. Now you believe the anti vaccine fraud. Because the Kennedy name is attached.

    And the naive credulous Men of UNZ still believe the Kennedy myth. Even those who experienced the full horrors of John and Robert Sr’s school bussing of black savages when your were children

  112. @Alden

    Alden you must be very desperate for attention.

    “…Unz do medical research? Via google? Most of you live about 300 miles from a medical library. . How could you possibly do research?”

    You appear to have no knowledge about the modern world, in general, and about science, technology, and medicine in particular.

    Even living right next door to a “medical library” it is easier to read papers published online than it is those published on dead trees in the “medical library”, which almost certainly will not admit you.

    Smallpox was eradicated in 1979, worldwide. I started to travel internationally in 1964, and in those days a smallpox vaccine had to be redone every five years. I am fairly sure that I had only 2 smallpox vaccinations even though I travelled every year, albeit only in New Zealand, Australia and the US(Hawaii in the 70s). So it’s overwhelmingly certain that you have never had a smallpox vaccination and that smallpox is not ‘kept at bay’ by people being vaccinated. Small pox does not exist in the wild and it is not coming back unless released by the US or its proxy in The Ukraine.

  113. @Alden

    You’re anti vaccine because your zombie brains are attached to the Kennedy name the way old Mexican women are attached to their favorite saint

    And you’re pro-vaccine because you have a (((tribal))) attachment to ZOG ownend Big Pharma.

    You also wrote:

    Amazing 2020 the Men of UNZ were all getting COVID fraud vaccines going about masked and believed COVID was real.
    Now you’re all crusading to end vaccines and going back to diphtheria polio scarlet fever and TB epidemics

    You are one dumb (and lazy) Jewess indeed.

    You need only scroll back to the UR articles in 2021/2022 and you’ll see that the overwhelming bulk of UR commenters were SCATHING in their opinions of the experimental mRNA gene therapies that masqueraded as vaccines.
    As with most things, you get things arse backwards – a typical Jewish trait.

    You need only trawl through my commentary history to see my merciless destruction of the pro-vaxx/pro-face mask morons (and I can vouch that Wild Man was amongst the vanguard of those individuals doing likewise).

    I have countless comments posted in UR that state I’ve never worn the face mask for even one second, and I went where I wanted, when I wanted, never following Socialist Distancing guidelines and such (I went on public transport, went into shopping malls etc – all of which had mask mandates and penalties in my locale for not doing so).
    Needless to say, neither I nor most of my loved ones took the clot shots.

    And I see your ‘Kennedy hysteria’ has flared up once again.
    You and your Jewish ilk can never forget how JFK came so close to bringing about the demise of ZOG (or at least making significant inroads to that end during his 34 months in office).

    Alden, you are one despicable little Jewess. No one pays heed to anything you say.
    Why do you bother? How much does the ADL and B’nai B’rith pay you to spew your bile?

  114. @Alden

    Quote:

    “Amazing 2020 the Men of UNZ were all getting COVID fraud vaccines going about masked and believed COVID was real.”

    Maybe you could take a course in remedial English and learn how to construct a sentence properly…

    I have to assume that you are including me in your “2020 the Men of Unz” group. For your information, I have NEVER received any “covid” vaccines, nor any of the other bullshit (pardon my language) vaccines that (they) are pushing off on the American people. In my entire life, I have received ONE “flu shot” and that was sometime between the year 1994 and the year 2000. I cannot remember the last time I had the flu – maybe 40 years ago.

    And, why this “hard on” regarding John F. Kennedy? As I asked YOU in another post, what have YOU done for the United States or for any of its honest, productive workers? Probably nothing.

  115. Further, in relation to the Mass Formation Psychosis that took hold during the Covid Psyop, here is an excerpt from Tom Woods’ book (that I mentioned in my comment # 107 in this thread), that highlights the ineffectiveness of lockdowns:

    ‘Meanwhile, if you take the data from the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker index and plot it against health outcomes – in other words, if you look to see if there’s any apparent connection between severity of lockdowns and health outcomes – you find NO CONNECTION at all.
    The distribution is entirely random.

    As future ages look back on the 21st century, our ‘public health’ establishment will be a laughingstock dressed in white coats and holding clipboards, but prescribing leeches, rain dances, human sacrifice and calling it ‘science’.

    Of course the reality is that Tom Woods is being overly generous, because in many places the lockdowns were far worse than in neighbouring regions which were almost unrestricted.

    I’m in Australia (which consists of 6 states and two territories), and other than that brief period of a few weeks beginning in mid-March 2020, pretty much the whole of Australia had no lockdowns and everyone went about their lives as normal for the first 18 months of the Covid Psyop.
    (ie: from the start of 2020 until mid 2021 when the clot shots started being received by a critical mass of the citizenry).

    However, there was one exception, and that was the state of Victoria, which had on-again off-again brutal lockdowns throughout that period.
    Up until the mass rollout of the Covid vaxx in mid 2021, the WHOLE of Australia had less then one thousand (1000) total Covid deaths – and over 80% of those came from ONE STATE.

    You guessed it, it was the Lockdown Capital of the country – the state of Victoria (not even the most populous state).
    Then after the vaxx rollout in mid 2021, the whole country went into hard lockdown, and people started dropping like flies (not from the relatively harmless Covid virus, but from the toxic clot shots).

    FACT: In Australia the Covid mortality was far worse whenever hard lockdowns were in place.
    Which makes sense. When you’re out and about in the sunshine absorbing Vitamin D from the sun’s rays, your immune system is enhanced, and you easily combat this mild flu-like virus in no time and thereafter reach herd immunity faster.
    But, isolated from your friends and family and confined to your damp, dark basements as you practise Socialist Disatancing, your sanity is compromised and you worry yourself, and your immune system, into a deteriorated state.

    And, as far as Health Bureaucracy chicanery goes, it doesn’t end there.
    Let’s do a deep dive into the phenomenon of the ‘day of report’ in relation to Covid deaths.
    The following excerpt is also from the book by Tom Woods:

    ‘People make this mistake with deaths all the time, which is why my state of Florida looked a lot worse than it was.
    [The corrupt MSM would announce] … 150 deaths ‘reported’ today, but only 35 deaths [had actually occurred] on that day. The others were:
    RETROACTIVE CLASSIFICATIONS FROM AS LONG AGO AS 6 WEEKS’.

    In a nutshell, the Health authorities in a particular state of the U.S would tally up the AGGREGATE number of deaths from say a 4 or 6 week period (which may have been 150 deaths for example), and the media headline would read:
    ‘150 Covid deaths REPORTED today’.

    This gave the dumbed down masses the impression that 150 had died in a SINGLE day from Covid, when in fact all it meant was that the total number of deaths from the last month or more just happened to be ‘reported’ all at once.

    By goosing up the numbers it was a means to further alarm the citizenry, and give them the impression that the Black Death was nigh – unless they rushed out in a hurry to get that vaxx* from Ol’ Reliable Big Pharma.

    (*You know the one I mean – the experimental mRNA potion that proved disastrous in animal trials and killed every one of those creatures).

  116. @Alden

    The doctor who is credited with wiping out smallpox said the vax did not end smallpox, clean living ended smallpox, not living in filth. IT IS A SKIN DISEASE!

    We take modern infrastructure for granted.
    Go to Haiti, Liberia, or Guyana and walk around.

    TB rarely affects a healthy person. It takes a lot of exposure and then a stress or run down period for a healthy person to be stricken with TB.

    And TB is a bacterial infection typically treated with antibiotics. Vaccines are mostly used to try and prevent so called “viral” infections.

    Currently many young doctors and medical researchers are beginning to question the science of virology as false.
    See “Virilogy’s Event Horizon” by Dr. Mark Bailey:

    drsambailey.com

    Or for direct refutation of the”virus” theory, see:

    Viroliegy.com

    • Thanks: Truth Vigilante
  117. Further, following up on my last comment on the disaster that Lockdowns proved to be during the Covid Psyop, we have this excerpt also taken from Tom Woods’ great book ‘DIARY OF A PSYCHOSIS: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania’ (a headline from the Daily Mail):

    ‘The country with the world’s strictest lockdown is now the worst for excess deaths’.
    They’re talking about Peru, a poor country that has been decimated by the lockdowns.
    The poor people are much poorer, and the tourism industry is destroyed’.

    Meanwhile, let’s talk about the calibre of people that were telling the truth during the Covid Psyop, people who were screaming out loud that there were safe, effective and low cost treatments for Covid, which the ZOG controlled western Health Bureaucracies were deliberately preventing from being administered.

    One such individual was Harvey Risch. Here’s a brief bio:

    Risch is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.
    He is an associate editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, editor of the International Journal of Cancer, and member of the board of editors of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Risch has been outspoken on defence of Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19.

    The following few paragraphs are taken from the great book by Tom Woods:
    ‘As a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals.
    I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions WITHIN the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment [HCQ] that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines.
    As a result, tens of thousands of patients with Covid-19 are dying unnecessarily’.

    ‘Physicians who have been using these medications [HCQ, Ivermectin] in the face of widespread scepticism have been truly heroic.
    They have done what the science shows is best for their patients, often at great personal risk.
    I myself know of two doctors who have saved the lives of hundreds of patients with these medications, but are now fighting state medical boards to save their licences and reputation.

    SUMMARY: All the BEST people, the most qualified in their respective fields, were calling out the ineffectiveness of lockdowns, the hospital protocols, the decisions to withhold life saving low cost treatments like Ivermectin and HCQ, the dangers of the experimental mRNA gene therapies that masqueraded as Covid vaccines etc.

    The people in charge of the western Health Bureaucracies, the ones propagating those wildly inflated Covid mortality figures in the U.S and elsewhere, were often amongst the least qualified people to be making these calls.

    They were manoeuvred into those positions by ZOG (the perpetrators of the Covid Psyop).
    They got to where they are because they were compliant yes-men and women that would dutifully do the bidding of their ZOG masters.

    Ron Unz, I hope you’re reading this. Because that’s the long and short of it.
    This webzine desperately needs to do an in depth American Pravda series investigation into the lethality of the Covid clot shots, to investigate the ongoing increase in All Cause Mortality that we are STILL experiencing in all the heavily vaxxed** countries, the prevalence of these turbo cancers/cardiac issues amongst normally healthy younger people.

    (**Interestingly, no such problems are being experienced in those countries that were minimally vaxxed. Hmmm…. strange coincidence, don’t you think?).

  118. Here’s an article I read today about the Covid Cover-up:

    https://covidreason.substack.com/p/the-covid-cover-up-19-questions-we?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=64295&post_id=151934095&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9atnc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    From that article:

    Dr Fauci, did he get anything right?

    * Origin of the disease—wrong
    * Transmission—wrong
    * Asymptomatic spread—wrong
    * PCR testing—wrong
    * Fatality rate—wrong
    * Lockdowns—wrong
    * Community triggers—wrong
    * Business closures—wrong
    * School closures—wrong
    * Quarantining the healthy—wrong
    * Impact on youth—wrong
    * Hospital overload—wrong
    * Plexiglass barriers—wrong
    * Social distancing—wrong
    * Outdoor spread—wrong
    * Masks—wrong
    * Variant impact—wrong
    * Natural immunity—wrong
    * Vaccine efficacy—wrong
    * Vaccine injury—wrong

    Well, Fauci was at least consistent. We can’t take that away from him.

    • Agree: acementhead
    • Thanks: James of Africa
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  119. Last week in the Washington Post came this headline:

    “Jay Bhattacharya, an NIH Critic, emerges as a Top Candidate to Lead the Agency”

    For those of you not familiar with Bhattacharya, he is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and was one of three authors — with Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff and Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta — of the Great Barrington Declaration, which decried lockdown hysteria as a catastrophically bad policy decision.

    Jay was also kind enough to write the foreword to Tom Woods’ book ‘Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania’ (scroll up to my comment # 107 to learn more about that).

    Well, the speculation as to who might be appointed director of the National Institutes of Health is over, because Jay Bhattacharya has been nominated to be the director of the NIH.
    He was smeared by Francis Collins [in 2020], who was director of the very institution Jay will now direct, as a “fringe epidemiologist” because he correctly insisted that lockdowns were no part of any pandemic policy ever proposed anywhere.

    Now UR readers, let’s not get too excited just yet. We all saw how the nomination of Matt Gaetz as AG went – before it was torpedoed by the usual culprits.

    Let’s hope it turns out better for Jay, because he is a seriously good guy.
    Jay has appeared on the Tom Woods Show podcast on several occasions, the last one being Episode 2242.
    I don’t know if the following link will get you through to that episode, but here it goes anyway:

    https://tomwoods.com/2242

  120. I read the following article today in LewRockwell.com, which I believe will interest some readers:

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/no_author/big-pharmas-license-to-kill/

    Titled ‘Big Pharma’s “License To Kill’, it also speaks at length about iatrogenic deaths and Big Pharma behemoth Johnson & Johnson’s history of criminal business practices.
    It has some interesting things to say about the Covid clot shots as well:

    [The Covid] vaccines are implicated in a wide variety of serious adverse events including myocarditis and pericarditis, thrombosis, neurological conditions, encephalomyelitis, transverse myelitis, Bell’s Palsy, exacerbation of autoimmune diseases, miscarriages, and very likely turbo cancers.

    In addition to that, it highlights the waste of taxpayers money and governmental chicanery in trying to cover up the damage from the clot shots, the lockdowns and health protocols utilised in the hospitals, all of which exacerbated the mortality and collateral damage to the community where they were applied.

    The recent revelations that the Biden administration spent $260 million to suppress information about the pandemic and the mRNA vaccines highlights Big Pharma’s financial and political power over Washington.

    So all you pro-vaxxers out there, if the Covid clot shots and the government recommendations during the Covid Psyop (eg: wearing face masks, Socialist Distancing, the lockdowns, reliance on ‘Case numbers’ when the PCR run at high cycle thresholds was notoriously unreliable), if all these measures were so beneficial, WHY the need to spend countless hundreds of millions SUPPRESSING the information?

    Surely, if you’re on the side of truth, then everything that was done during the Covid Psyop should be able to withstand scrutiny all by itself.

    But of course the pro-vaxxers are NOT on the side of truth. They’re on the side of pseudoscience.
    They’re siding with the ZOG miscreants that foisted this Mass Cull of Humanity on us.

    All of you should be ashamed of how you behaved during the Covid Psyop – and how many of you still clutch at straws in trying to justify what went on during that time.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  121. @socratesjr

    The planet CANNOT support eight billion plus human beings and their consumption. Ergo, population reduction MUST and WILL happen, either slowly and humanely, by reducing rich world and, in particular, elite over-consumption, by emancipating and educating women, by ready availability of safe contraception, by rewarding small families financially etc, or abruptly and horrifically as the planet’s life-sustaining bio-systems collapse.
    The first is expensive, so the rich parasites VERY much prefer the latter-day Malthusian approach.

    • Replies: @Looger
  122. @Truth Vigilante

    The pro gene therapy modified mRNA injections claque ignored several things. First, they banished, perhaps for good, ANY discussion, even among highly credited experts. It was the revealed wisdom or ostracism. So much for the Western Moral Value of ‘free speech’.
    Then they ignored the Nuremberg Laws, the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association of 1964, regarded as a cornerstone of medical ethics, and the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (particularly Section 6 on Consent) of 2005, all of which ban coercion in medical treatment eg ‘vaccines’, outright. ALL down the shitter, with the know-it-all experts in everything, feminazi she-male cunts from the likes of the Guardian, and their various male colleagues, cheering on the total elimination of International Law.
    And now they are LYING, as ever regarding the ill-effects of the gene therapy injections. Such are the scum who rule the world.

  123. @Truth Vigilante

    He took Vitamin D supplementation for himself-correct. But he did not recommend this cheap and safe prophylaxis for others, particularly for those of darker complexion, therefore at higher risk, than he-EVIL.

  124. Looger says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    he planet CANNOT support eight billion plus human beings and their consumption. Ergo, population reduction MUST and WILL happen, either slowly and humanely

    Sure thing BILL

    Hey I’ve still got a copy of Windows 3.1 on 3.5″ floppies that never really worked. What are you going to do about THAT?

    3.5″ disks? Really? I know the 4.25″s are “floppier” but they are larger (to reach those places deep inside). Always liked the sound they made anyway. Wing Commander shipped on the big floppies, and you have to use those wee ones?

    Less population to recognize your weird sexual admissions and fetishes, buried decades ago in the software sales decisions???

  125. Further, in relation to my comment # 120 where I spoke about the nomination of Prof. Jay Bhattacharya* to head the NIH in Donald Chump’s administration, we have this video where Jimmy Dore gives his take on the matter:

    (*Bhattacharya was one of the lead signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration and Champions of Truth during the Covid Psyop).

    The video is titled ‘Fauci SMEARED Him & Now He’ll Be Running The NIH’.
    All I can say is that anyone that Fauci smears is my sorta guy.

  126. Some weeks ago I read this article titled ’55 Chemicals Found in Covid Vaccines, Including Heavy Metals’ in LewRockwell.com:
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/jon-rappoport/55-chemicals-found-in-covid-vaccines-including-heavy-metals/
    The first three paragraphs of that article read:

    “A group of Argentine scientists identified 55 chemical elements—not listed on package inserts—in the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, CanSino, Sinopharm and Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines, according to a study published last week in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.”

    “The chemical elements include 11 heavy metals—such as chromium, arsenic, nickel, aluminum, cobalt and copper—which scientists consider systemic toxicants known to be carcinogenic and to induce organ damage, even at low exposure levels.”

    ARSENIC in the vaccines? How does that happen? I can’t see how a vaccine assembly line would be accidentally contaminated with arsenic, from other prior uses.

    Don’t you worry yourselves too much, all you pro-vaxxers out there.
    You just keep taking those Covid vaxxes like your Big Gubmint overlords keep telling you to do.

    You’re up to your tenth Covid booster I believe. Anyway, according to your betters in Big Pharma you can never get too much of a good thing.
    Just keep boosting away. It’ll improve the gene pool of humanity once you and your like minded ilk suffer a premature demise.

  127. Paul Craig Roberts has a new article posted in UR titled ‘Rising Death Rates and Health Injuries from Covid Vax Can No Longer be Covered Up’:
    https://www.unz.com/proberts/rising-death-rates-and-health-injuries-from-covid-vax-can-no-longer-be-covered-up/

    From that article comes this paragraph:

    Now medical experts and public authorities are calling for a halt to all mRNA vaccination.
    The rising deaths and enormous increase in deadly diseases and health conditions following the mass vaccinations can no longer be denied.

    The excess All Cause Mortality in all the heavily vaxxed countries cannot be denied.
    Amazingly however, some people STILL deny it and just bury their heads in the sand when confronted with the evidence.

  128. Wild Man says:

    [Comments filled with complaints about website policy are likely to be trashed. You have been warned. You would probably be much happier on an anti-vaxxing website.]

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  129. Wild Man says:
    @Wild Man

    [Anti-vaxxing comments may be published. Lengthy complaints about website policy will be trashed. There are plenty of other places you can go and endlessly rant about vaxxing.]

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