Story at a Glance:
•Something
about vaccines (e.g., their promise of a simple injection being
sufficient to safely and effectively end all diseases) has always deeply
appealed to the minds of government officials.
•That
promise is often a lie. Over and over, unsafe and ineffective vaccines
reach the market, and each time, the officials invested in them do
everything they can to shield the vaccines from scrutiny and bury the
red flags. The medical field has dutifully gone along.
•In
earlier decades, the press was far less captured than it is now, and it
occasionally aired real investigations into what was happening —
segments that documented the suffering of the injured.
•Watched
together, these reports show two things at once: how much more candid
the media used to be, and how precisely the lies of that era match the
lies we face now.
•I compiled this article in the
hope of breaking the collective amnesia, now that the pharmaceutical
industry’s grip on the media is finally slipping. Below are 75 news
reports on the dangers of vaccination that have been almost entirely
forgotten and would never be broadcast today.
A
key theme I’ve tried to highlight in this publication is that the same
medical catastrophes keep repeating (because those responsible are never
held accountable), so by understanding what happened in the past, you
can see and understand what is happening now and what will likely happen
in the future.
For example, because vaccines are “risky but
necessary,” the medical profession and government, again and again,
concluded that they needed to tell the public all vaccines were “safe
and effective” as the potential injuries a mass vaccination campaign
would cause were outweighed by “necessary” benefit the vaccines could
offer. As such, examples can be found again and again of severe injuries
being systematically covered up for the “greater good” (e.g., the
earliest documented example I know of this happened in 1874 with the smallpox vaccine) and health authorities concocting the same set of excuses we’ve seen since smallpox as to why those vaccines failed to prevent the diseases they were supposed to.
Since the risks of most vaccines (detailed here)
far outweigh their benefits, a mass-vaccination paradigm can only be
sustained by censoring the evidence of harm — and then citing that
manufactured silence as proof of safety. Over the decades, more and more
has been done to conceal those harms. For almost a century, severe neurological injuries after vaccination were routinely reported in the medical literature.
Now vaccine injuries are censored, and it is nearly impossible to
publish anything critical of vaccines in a “reputable” journal.
Likewise,
despite the “science” that says vaccines are safe, it is nearly
impossible to obtain the raw datasets that could actually answer the
question — as Steve Kirsch showed the public throughout COVID-19 with
his relentless, endlessly stonewalled quest to get that data. Likewise,
VAERS, a public injury-reporting database only exists because the 1986
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act required a way for patients to
bypass doctors refusing to report their injuries, and as such, ever
since a law mandated its creation, everything possible has been done to undermine and discredit VAERS (except when the industry uses it as “proof” to prove vaccines are safe).
This
is the inescapable problem at the heart of mass vaccination. When you
take a product that is not completely safe and give it to an entire
population, tens of millions of healthy people, most of whom were never
at meaningful risk from the disease, even a small rate of serious harm
guarantees that enormous numbers are injured or killed. Since there is
no way around that arithmetic the authorities have chosen concealment
every time, suppressing the data, reclassifying the injuries, and
dismissing each casualty as a coincidence, because the alternative is
admitting the paradigm itself produces the ever-increasing wave of
chronic illness sweeping our society.
For a long
time, the injuries were too numerous to fully hide, so the public kept
reawakening to them and the mainstream media kept covering them. The
industry’s solution came after it won liability protection in the 1986
vaccine law: spend whatever it took to censor the coverage and bury the
injuries. But removing that check, the public finding out and objecting,
removed the only real constraint on toxic vaccines reaching the market,
and progressively more dangerous ones followed, until the COVID-19
catastrophe injured so many people that even a robust censorship
apparatus couldn’t contain it. Numerous polls I’ve summarized in detail here
demonstrate the scale of the vaccine injuries: depending on the survey,
7% to 13% of recipients reported a serious side effect, 24% to 28% say
they know someone they believe died from the shot, and 46% to 55%
believe the COVID vaccines have killed a significant number of people.
Propaganda has its limits, and once numbers like those take hold, a new
awareness of vaccine injury surfaces across the media ecosystem,
occasionally on conservative networks, but mostly in the independent
press.
Because we keep forgetting the past, the cycle
repeats. My goal here is to show that what we are seeing now is nothing
new, that it has happened countless times before, on a smaller scale
that was easier to sweep under the rug, by collecting dozens of clips
that were once routinely aired on television and are almost
inconceivable today, given how brutal the censorship has become.
Watch
them in sequence and two patterns jump out. The same lines protected
the schedule every time. We just need more research before we change
anything, and we’ll do that research soon. Yet decades later, we still
“need more research.” And the things vaccine-safety advocates warned
about, and were denounced for warning about, kept coming true.
Note: after publishing this article ten months ago, its message
generated immense interest and I subsequently found a much larger number
of buried news reports so I have been gradually updating it since then
(and likely will add a few more in the future). As such, if you have any
segments you know of which are not in here their additions would be
greatly appreciated (and helpful to many).
Actions
like these were only possible because the corporate media suppressed
dissent — even when large numbers of Americans believed the mandatory
vaccines were injuring or killing their children, which is exactly the
kind of story the press has a foundational duty to cover.
In response to a FOIA request filed by TheBlaze,
[Biden’s] HHS revealed that it purchased advertising from major news
networks including ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable TV news stations Fox News,
CNN, and MSNBC, legacy media publications including the New York Post,
the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, digital media companies
like BuzzFeed News and Newsmax, and hundreds of local newspapers and TV
stations. These outlets were collectively responsible for publishing
countless articles and video segments regarding the vaccine that were
nearly uniformly positive about the vaccine in terms of both its
efficacy and safety.
Note: the amount spent per network is unknown, but likely totaled a billion. Additionally, in 2009, the H.H.S. Secretary testified to congress about similar partnerships (e.g., with Seasame Street) to promote the H1N1 vaccine.
Because
of this, many people in the media wanted to speak out against the
vaccines, but effectively could not, and to my knowledge, other than a
few Fox hosts lightly criticizing them, only two did. One, a recently hired reporter at a local station, on live television announced Fox was muzzling stories the public wanted to hear (and was promptly fired) after which she provided secret recordings to Project Veritas corroborating this censorship.
The
other was Tucker Carlson, who was able to leverage both being the most
popular news host in America and having a show which did not rely upon
pharmaceutical funding to speak out against the vaccines without being
fired. Nonetheless, this was still a huge risk for him and eventually,
after airing this remarkable 4-19-23 segment (which took a lot of courage), at immense cost to Fox News, was immediately fired.
Once
he left, he began talking openly about how much pharmaceutical money
kept these stories off the air — and other former hosts corroborated
him:
When I was on Fox News
[circa 2007] and we talked about the possibility of vaccine injuries …
They would RUN out to the set to tell you to shut that down.—Megyn Kelly
Likewise, Sharyl Attkisson (an acclaimed CBS investigative journalist) has extensively chronicled (e.g., in her 2020 book and even more so in her 2025 book)
how in the early 2000s, the pharmaceutical industry, feeling the
pressure from negative coverage of disastrous vaccination programs was
creating for them, lobbied to prevent future negative coverage. Once
this happened, it became impossible for her to air well produced
segments which were critical of any vaccine initiative, and likewise,
that in the post-2000s, stories on vaccine risks “disappeared” due to advertiser pressure.
However,
things were not always this way. Rather, major networks used to air
numerous scathing stories about vaccine disasters—and in many cases, the
dangers they covered were so explicit by current journalistic standards
that I frequently find sharing those (previously inconceivable)
segments with people on the fence about vaccination opens their minds to
the entire mess.
Let’s now review some of the forgotten vaccine disasters and the evolving censorship emerging alongside them.
The Vietnam War was considered by many to be the event that broke the public’s trust in the Federal Government.
Note: many believe the specific event which turned the American public against the Vietnam War was the My Lai massacre—an
event where American soldiers decided to commit war crimes against
Vietnamese civilians until a different group of American soldiers on
their own volition decided to stop the massacre.
That
collapse of trust alarmed the government and prompted the Pentagon to
make sure it never happened again, which it accomplished by ending the
draft and switching to an all-volunteer army, and by ensuring the public
only ever saw a sanitized picture of future wars — embedded journalists
supplying government-approved footage, and the press strongly
discouraged from showing anything that exposed the horror.
Major Colin Powell was
one of the officers who helped cover up My Lai. He rose through the
ranks, became Secretary of State, and infamously lied to the UN about
Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction — a lie that killed hundreds of
thousands and cost trillions. Powell is one of many cases that
illustrate how richly the government rewards those who cover up its
atrocities.
It is hard to overstate how much work
went into hiding the horrors of war, and how effective it was —
transforming war from something much of the public vehemently opposed
into an abstraction they were largely apathetic about (the best
documentary I’ve seen on how military propaganda evolved is Why We Fight).
The sanitizing of war parallels the medical censorship we now face. The same PR (public relations) firm that manufactured a heart-wrenching but entirely made up testimony that dragged the U.S. into the Gulf War has a long history of pharmaceutical work — and was contracted both to promote the COVID narrative and to eliminate “vaccine hesitancy.”1,2,3
Numerous
medical catastrophes have happened which provoked widespread public
outrage, and like the Vietnam War, those events brought the government
to conclude it was imperative the public was prevented from becoming
aware of future medical atrocities. Some of those events include:
In
1955, after an expedited approval, the government released a
much-heralded vaccine, and two weeks later, children across America
began turning up paralyzed in the exact limb where they’d received
Salk’s polio shot.
After some investigation, it was discovered that:
•Only
two of the five vaccine manufacturers had produced the same “safe”
vaccines used in the clinical trials—which meant many of the vaccines
the public got (which at the time were a new experimental technology)
had never been tested in humans.
•At the urging of
Salk, when the vaccine was mass produced, a different and less safe
production process was used for the vaccine so the orders could be met.
Note: this also happened with the COVID-19 vaccines and many now believe this is a key reason why they were so dangerous.
•Bernice Eddy, an NIH employee, had immediately discovered this mass produced vaccine caused paralysis in monkeys.
Note:
Eddy had previously upset the NIH after she discovered that adenovirus
vaccines caused cancers (which caused the NIH to put up innumerable
obstacles to her work) but eventually Eddy won and adenovirus vaccines
stopped being given to children—at least until COVID-19 (as the J&J
vaccine is a modified adenovirus).
•All of the paralyzing vaccines came from the same manufacturer (Cutter Laboratories).
Note: later paralyzing lots were also identified from Wyeth (better known for making the highly dangerous DPT vaccine—which also had major hot lot issues),
but the general public was never made aware of the other hot polio
lots—which the head of the CDC’s polio surveillance unit believed was
done to prevent the public from realizing the Polio vaccine in general
was unsafe and ineffective.
•The (early) FDA delegated testing of the vaccine for safety to the vaccine manufacturers rather than doing so itself.
Note: I believe this is a key reason why “hot” vaccine lots that disproportionately injure their recipients are a recurring issue with our vaccines.
•There
were many safety concerns with the testing of the Salk vaccine, but the
professional publications chose to censor them and instead continually
repeated the message that the vaccine was completely safe and effective.
The
public was outraged, the government faced a public-relations crisis,
and lawsuits dragged on against Cutter. In response, the federal
government took direct control of every aspect of the vaccine program —
switching from a neutral external auditor to a major stakeholder. As
you’d expect, that conflict of interest gave the government every
incentive to bury safety problems, and business as usual soon resumed.
To quote Turtles All The Way Down:
Perhaps
the most disturbing element of the entire program has been the
disparity between the risks that were known to be involved and the
repeated assurances of safety.—Paul Meier, professor of epidemiology at
the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
The
National Foundation told doctors, in a memo, that the vaccine was
completely safe and the risk of paralysis was “zero.” Meier, at an
expert panel, described the operating philosophy plainly:
The
best way to push forward a new program is to decide on what you think
the best decision is and not question it thereafter, and further, not to
raise questions before the public or expose the public to open
discussion of the issue.—Paul Meier speaking at an expert panel on the
vaccine.
In 1960, five years after Cutter, Bernice
Eddy determined that the polio vaccines were contaminated with a
cancer-causing virus, SV-40, and were not fit for the public. Ordered to
keep quiet so the public wouldn’t lose faith in the program, she
published anyway — and was immediately demoted and stripped of her lab.
Officials had known since 1959 that their vaccine caused cancer (a
consequence of cutting costs with imported monkey kidneys) and were
scrambling to address it while still promoting the shot. Only in 1963
did the government force manufacturers to stop growing the vaccine on
contaminated kidneys — by which point between 40 and 98 million
Americans had been infected, and a case can be made that SV-40 lingered
in some vaccines until around 2000. This drove an increase in cancer
that, until COVID, was unprecedented.
Around 1997, Canada’s
Broadcasting Corporation aired a remarkable program on the recent
findings that SV-40 was turning up in tumors, how it caused cancer, and
the full history of how the polio vaccines became contaminated with it.
Many
severe kidney diseases are also strongly associated with SV-40, and
have likewise exploded since the polio vaccines. Because SV-40 was
introduced into the population through the program (and transmits
between humans and to fetuses) there has been a persistent reluctance to
study its danger or admit it lingered in the supply for decades.
Additionally,
many horrible kidney diseases are strongly associated with SV-40 (and
likewise have exploded in incidence since the Polio vaccines hit the
market). Sadly, since SV-40 was introduced to the population through
the vaccine program (and transmits between humans and fetuses) there has
been a general reluctance to study its danger—or to acknowledge it was
still present in the vaccine supply decades later.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries covered what happened in a 28-minute video:
One of the most important admissions of the entire polio fiasco came from the FDA in the Federal Register:
that any doubts about a vaccine’s safety, valid or not, could not be
permitted to exist, because they would reduce vaccine uptake.
When
the earliest influenza vaccines hit the market in 1945, they received
minimal interest from the public. Joseph Anthony Morris PhD was
recruited by the early FDA to conduct the research to prove those
vaccines were safe and effective (eventually leading to him becoming the
FDA’s Chief Vaccine Control Officer). Yet, after he found they were
ineffective (only working 0-40% of the time) and unsafe, his superiors
ignored his data and released the vaccines while claiming they were safe
and effective.
Like Bernice Eddy, he also faced significant
retaliation, being harassed, demoted, losing access to his lab and
blocked from publishing his results. Before being fired, Morris decided
to fight the FDA’s gross misconduct by hiring a lawyer and going to the
Senate. This prompted a 1972 Senate hearing (detailed in Dr. Humphries’
28 minute video above) which concluded the issues Morris raised were
only the tip of the iceberg, and as a result of the hearing, thirty-two
unsafe and unproven vaccines were taken off the market. Most
importantly, the conduct of the FDA’s progenitor (called the DBS) was
deemed so egregious that it was scrapped and replaced with the modern
FDA (which unfortunately did not fix the rot within the agency).
After
being transferred to the new FDA (where he was protected from
termination due to the recent Senate investigation), he continued to be
responsible for influenza, and in February of 1976, a swine flu strain
was found in a soldier who died in March. As the FDA tried to drum up
fear about a new 1918 influenza, Morris was called into the
investigation and concluded that swine flu strain was not something to
be concerned about as it rarely travelled from person to person.
Note:
As far as I know, the three deadliest plagues in human history were the
Black Death (of which much is still not known), its predecessor the
Justinianic Plague, and the 1918 Influenza. Because of the 1918
Influenza, the medical community became fixated on preventing anything
like it from happening again, which amongst other things resulted in an
enormous influenza vaccination apparatus flooding America, which sadly has injured many but consistently failed to provide any benefit.
Since
that swine flu strain reproduced slowly, it was not feasible to produce
enough of it to make a vaccine before the “pandemic” faded into memory,
so someone had a truly astounding idea. Why not hybridize it with the fast-growing 1918 influenza? As this provided a way to meet the vaccine production timeline, it was supported by the government.
Dr. Morris did not support this idea, and before long discovered that the emergency
vaccine was unsafe and ineffective, but when he reported this to his
superiors at the FDA, he was told to keep his concerns to himself.
Morris then decided to go on a speaking tour which included the Donahue
show (one of the largest talk shows in America) and warned the public of
the vaccine’s danger.
Note: I have been unable to find a transcript or copy of that 1976 show. However, according to one account of it,
Morris “warned the experimental vaccine could cause serious allergic
and neurological reactions, had a very low potency, and was completely
unnecessary as the virus concerned was an ordinary pig virus, and not
highly pathogenic, and had died out within two weeks of its being
detected in February, and had not been seen anywhere else.”
However,
his warning went unheeded, and the vaccine was distributed across
America. Before long, the injuries piled up from this experimental
vaccine, with hundreds becoming paralyzed from Guillain-Barré syndrome,
dozens died, and thousands of lawsuits were filed.
Note:
the official count (which claimed 1 in 100,000 developed GBS) likely
underestimated the actual injuries. For example, a colleague who was in
practice at the time shared 6% of their patients developed GBS and one reader here shared they did as well.
Likewise, when the COVID-19 vaccines came out, a patient who refused to
vaccinate shared with me she was still dealing with severe injuries
from the 1976 vaccine and was not going to fall for the government’s
scam again.
In the same way it is remarkable that the
Donahue show was willing to publicly give a platform to Dr. Morris’s
concerns, consider the 1979 program Sixty Minutes aired across America
and how eerily it parallels what happened decades later with the
COVID-19 vaccines:
Note: throughout this article, I designated some of the news clips like the above one as “programs.”
Those are the more detailed segments with hard-hitting investigative
journalism (rather than ones either with people from opposing sides
debating the topic or a guest sharing the dangers of vaccination).
What
I find most extraordinary about this program is that while the 1976
vaccine was much less damaging than the COVID-19 vaccine, in this
current era of mass censorship, airing a segment like this would be
unthinkable.
One of the more remarkable things about these
events is how they were seen in the eyes of government officials. The
Public Health Crisis Survival Guide (quoted via Oxford) provides a remarkable illustration into the administrative mindset:
Early
in 1976, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention proposed and
President Gerald Ford approved a plan to vaccinate the country against
swine influenza, a new infection that had only recently appeared on a
New Jersey army base. While agency leaders imagined themselves rising to
the challenge of a crisis, mismanagement and poor communication led to a
debacle for public health. Problems included logistical difficulties in
manufacturing the vaccine, disputes with Congress, and the inability to
revise the vaccination goal in light of the fact that the disease never
returned. When people who were vaccinated fell ill with neurological
complications, the vaccine effort ended, but not before causing grave
damage to confidence in public health agencies.
Note:
this effectively says the “mistake” in this debacle was poor control of
the media that damaged public trust in the all-important vaccination
program, rather than say...pushing an unsafe, ineffective and unneeded
vaccine onto the market and ignoring every warning to the contrary.
Lastly,
in 2009, when a new swine flu vaccine was being promoted (which also
was ultimately unnecessary and had some safety issues), CBS aired a
segment which generally pro-vaccine but acknowledged some concerns from
parents.
Likewise,
in 2009, Fox aired a segment on the need to understand the risks and
benefits of vaccinating which focused on the potential issues with
getting the experimental swine flu vaccine where it was too soon to know
the risk profile of it.
Note: larger datasets later detected serious issues with that vaccine such as it causing narcolepsy.
Finally,
in 2010, England’s Channel 4 news aired a segment highlighting that the
swine flu pandemic was a scam governments wasted billions of dollars on
after the WHO’s “experts” exaggerated how bad it would be due to
pharmaceutical influence.
Developed
a century ago, the original pertussis vaccine was incredibly dangerous,
and from the very start evidence emerged (which I compiled here)
showed that it caused seizures, permanent brain damage, and infants to
suddenly die (likely due to microstrokes in the respiratory centers of
the brain). I’ve extensively studied this subject because so many people
I know developed permanent brain damage from it (as have numerous
readers here1,2), and to this day I still periodically meet people (e.g., an epileptic) whose entire lives were upended by that vaccine.
The saddest thing about this is that:
•In
each case, the child’s pediatrician failed to recognize the initial
adverse reaction (which should have been recognized a contraindication
to the subsequently permanently disabling reaction) and often denied the
child’s injury, insisting the vaccine was 100% safe and effective.
•The benefit of the pertussis vaccine is marginal at best (e.g., outbreaks often happen in vaccinated communities).
•Pertussis can easily be treated with antibiotics and oral vitamin C.
•It
was possible to make a safer (but not completely safe) pertussis
vaccine. However, since it cost more to make those, the industry never
did so until lawsuits in the 1980s and the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act
incentivized them to.
Note: this is very similar to the infamous Ford Pinto memo,
where Ford’s management decided they would not fix the Pinto’s tendency
to explode after car accidents as the cost to settle lawsuits was
significantly less than the cost to make the cars safe in crashes.
Sadly, many similar examples of profits being put over people also
exist.
However, rather than pull the pertussis vaccine
from the market (or at least ask for a safer one to be made),
government officials ignored the innumerable issues they came across and
continued to push the vaccine upon the world (even as other developed
nations gradually dropped it).
Note: one school of
thought argues that the government’s attachment to the pertussis vaccine
comes from the fact that it is always packaged with the tetanus and
diphtheria vaccine, and tetanus vaccine (when laced with HcG) is the
most effective sterilizing vaccine that was ever developed (the WHO spent decades developing it and there are many tragic cases of it being deployed in the third world).
Eventually
in 1982, NBC decided to air a program on this vaccine that shocked
America and again highlighted the degree to which the American
government will lie to protect the vaccine program:
Once
the video was aired, lawsuits began being filed against the DPT
manufacturers and parents from across the nation began to contact NBC to
ask to be connected with other parents with similar injuries. Before
long, these parents joined to form a group which successfully began the
modern political movement against the vaccine manufacturers.
Note: that group (Dissatisfied Parents Together), which Barbara Loe Fisher cofounded, later became the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC.org),
and for decades has been one of the primary groups advocating for
vaccine safety and parental choice. Many of the videos in this article
were originally archived by them, were deleted after YouTube wiped their
channel (but fortunately were mirrored by many others before the
deletion) and can now be viewed on their Rumble Channel
alongside many other segments NVIC has produced over the years (along
with all of these videos also being mirrored on my channel). I strongly
encourage you to download them and share them so the public can be aware
that there was a longstanding opposition to vaccination which simply
was erased by mass censorship and that vaccine injuries, contrary to
popular belief, are very real and have existed for a long time.
Likewise,
the attention the NBC program brought to the issue resulted in the
Donahue show (America’s largest talk show—who’d previously hosted Morris
in 1976) spending an hour hosting a 1983 public debate between medical
experts on the dangers of this vaccine and the ethics of vaccine
mandates. Nothing like it has happened since, as candid discussions like
this always expose the issues with vaccinations and hence always harm
vaccine promoters.
Next
in 1985, New York’s WOR-TV “Straight Talk” hosted a live debate on
between Barbara Loe Fisher, then vice president of Dissatisfied Parents
Together and co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark,
and a hospital infectious-disease chief, in which Fisher pressed that
the safety test used to screen the pertussis vaccine had been known for
twenty years not to predict its capacity to cause death or brain damage,
that a far less reactive vaccine had been in use in Japan since 1981,
and that the country still had no system for counting how many children
it was injuring.
Then, in 1986, ABC news aired a segment on the dangers of the DPT vaccine where experts were allowed to be challenged.
Note:
over the decades, Barbara Loe Fisher has been the primary person
invited on television to speak out against mandatory vaccination and it
is remarkable to observe both her fortitude and also how the media
landscape evolved as the years went by.
Around 1988,
Philadelphia’s WCAU aired a multi-part investigation by consumer
reporter Herb Denenberg into the DPT vaccine: children left
brain-damaged or dead, parents never warned, city health centers falsely
telling families the shot was required for school, an FDA official
conceding there had never been a controlled study proving the vaccine
safe, and a safer Japanese acellular vaccine the FDA still hadn’t
approved. It closed by pointing viewers to the parent group that would
become NVIC.
Next, in 1990, CNN also aired a segment on the dangers of the DPT vaccine where experts were also allowed to be challenged.
In
1992, the Lifetime Network also exposed the dangers of the DPT vaccine
(along with discussing a healthcare worker being injured by the rubella
vaccine).
In
1994, NBC aired a program by Katie Couric on the dangers of the DPT
vaccine which criticized the CDC and discussed the widespread problem of
hot DPT lots.
In
1996, MSNBC's Ann Curry interviewed Barbara Loe Fisher about Money
Magazine's December cover investigation into the vaccine industry, which
reported that the older whole-cell DPT shot, tied to brain damage and
death, with many deaths misclassified as SIDS, remained in widespread
use even though a safer purified acellular version had already been
licensed.
Finally, in 1997, NBC aired a debate with a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics on the need for mass vaccination.
The hepatitis B vaccine has long been marred with controversy due to the fact:
•It primarily benefits specific high risk groups
(e.g., healthcare workers, intravenous drug users who share needles,
individuals who engage in large amounts of unprotected sex with multiple
partners, children of Southeastern Asian immigrants—which became a
significant public health challenged following the Vietnam war) rather
than the general population.
•It is given to all newborns in the hospital despite there being no benefit to them
(you have to vaccinate millions to prevent a single case of chronic
hepatitis—the primary justification for mass vaccination), and there’s
been no change in chronic hepatitis B since the program was enacted—a
policy which I learned recently through an ACIP member was adopted to insure the high-risk urban youth could have some coverage against hepatitis
as it was unlikely they would ever return for vaccines (and likely
continued to avoid the hassle of having to selectively vaccinate high
risk groups).
•It frequently caused significant autoimmune problems due to it somewhat matching the lining of the nerves.
One 1999 ABC News program exposed all of this:
In
2001, a Dallas News Station aired a scathing investigative of the
pneumococcal vaccine which noted that it frequently caused seizures,
sometimes caused death and was not tested against an inert placebo, so
its rate of adverse reactions was likely higher. This program also
highlighted that both the CDC and ACIP members who voted for had
financial conflicts of interest, that it was being falsely advertised by
the CDC to prevent ear aches, and that a similar issue had happened
with a now withdrawn rotavirus vaccine:
Note:
Barbara Loe Fisher had an excellent line at the end of this segment:
“What’s scientific about that assumption, that every time something bad
happens after vaccination it’s a coincidence? That’s not science, that’s
politics.”
Additionally, more recently, another Texas news
station covered the increasing interest by members of the community to
opt out of vaccination (e.g., on Facebook and with billboards).
In
the lead-up to the Bush’s Gulf War, the US military was worried Saddam
Hussein would use anthrax (we’d given him) on US troops, so they
urgently attempted to make an experimental anthrax vaccine (delegating
it to a faction within the military deeply invested in it). While
Hussein never used anthrax, this vaccine ended up severely injuring far
more soldiers than the entire war (approximately 250,000 of the 697,000 who served
developed a debilitating “Gulf War Syndrome”). Remarkably, the vaccine
was not discontinued and instead routinely forced on servicemen,
eventually resulting in widespread resistance against the policy
(despite military hierarchies typically prohibiting dissent).
Eventually, investigations revealed three possible explanations for what happened (which were detailed here):
•The
anthrax vaccine was part of a covert experimental program to develop a
new squalene-based adjuvant that later hit the market.
•Due to challenges with making the anthrax vaccine, the manufacturer (as revealed by the GAO)
decided to use a larger filter of the vaccine product, which prevented
the filters from clogging but also allowed many toxic components to
enter the vaccine.
•There was mycobacterial contamination of the vaccines (which may be linked to ALS as the mycoplasma’s discoverer believes it infected the general population).
Note:
while the evidence for each is compelling, I think the bad filters is
the most probable explanation, although I have met members of the
military who were given unlabeled vaccines and then developed chronic
health issues and spoken to people who cured their Gulf War syndrome
with antibiotics targeted to the mycoplasma.
As this vaccine
caused an immense degree of suffering, there was widespread public
demand to investigate it (which eventually resulted in a law being
passed that restricted the military from giving troops experimental
vaccines, but, not surprisingly, was ignored during COVID-19). Because
of this, a scathing 2003 program was produced that was aired by
Democracy Now (which aired on smaller stations including PBS),
suggesting it was aired on national television.
Note:
the Institute of Medicine was tasked to determine if the anthrax
vaccine injured veterans. It concluded there was “insufficient
evidence,” much in the same way it concluded vaccines do not cause
sudden infant death syndrome or autism (discussed further here).
In
the run-up to the Bush (II)’s Iraq War, to gain public support for the
war, he promoted the idea Hussein was planning to release smallpox upon
America (despite him not having it). As such, an aggressive push for the
vaccine was conducted throughout the national media, initially targeted
at the military and healthcare workers (much like the COVID vaccines).
However, because of its poor risk to benefit ratio (e.g., it caused
myocarditis), many opposed the plan and by the time it was ready to be
deployed on the general public, the program was largely finished due to
the injuries it caused in the military and programs like this one
publicizing its issues.
As
such, I believe the lessons from the failures of this campaign were
incorporated into ensuring the same did not happen with COVID-19.
Much
later, a CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Action News Jax, aired an
investigation into a Marine, Sean Kelly, who developed pericarditis (a
labeled side effect) after the ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine he was ordered
to take, was denied VA benefits, and learned the VA admits it has no
mechanism to track smallpox or any other vaccine injury, with Barbara
Loe Fisher (once again) noting the government simply refuses to
acknowledge how many people these vaccines hurt.
In
2005, CNBC hosted a debate over a recent legislative move to give
vaccine manufactures blanket immunity for any “emergency” vaccines they
developed. Of note, everything Barbara Loe Fisher predicted here
subsequently came to pass:
Annual flu shots have been repeatedly shown to provide minimal benefit to their recipients
(e.g., because they normally do not match the actual strain which is
circulating) while simultaneously, have a variety of minor and severe
side effects (e.g., I’ve met numerous healthcare workers who got GBS
from one). In 2006, Sharyl Attkinson
had a brief CBS segment which highlighted a CDC study which showed the
entire program was pointless for preventing deaths in the elderly, but
nonetheless, that the CDC had no plans to change it.
Note:
in addition to the flu vaccines not being proven to provide significant
benefit, they can frequently make flus much worse, something supported by extensive data and which we have observed in severely ill flu patients.
In 2008, the Christian Broadcasting Network aired a segment highlighting why annual flu shots were absurd.
In
2008, ABC aired a segment on the widespread public pushback against New
Jersey mandating flu shots for children six months and older (as the
CDC had recently added it to the immunization schedule).
In
2009, CNN aired a segment highlighting the very reasonable objections
protesting New York healthcare workers had to a newly passed regulation
requiring them to get annual flu shot and swine flu vaccines. This
segment is particularly remarkable given what followed a decade later
with COVID.
The same year, on CNN, in response to a guest
saying he didn’t trust the flu shot, Piers Morgan stated that after
being publicly vaccinated by Dr. Oz, ten days later, he caught the flu.
This clip is noteworthy, because at the time he got the flu shot, they specifically said it was impossible for it to give you the flu, (whereas in reality, as noted before, vaccines frequently cause the illnesses they prevent) with Piers telling Dr. Oz “if I get the flu, I’m coming after you.”
Note: given the previous, it makes this COVID tweet by Piers even more remarkable.
Likewise, in 2009, the Sky Angel Network (a Christian station that was on satellite television) aired a critical segment about the influenza vaccines:
In
2010, MSNBC hosted a flu-season debate between Barbara Loe Fisher and a
pediatric vaccine expert, in which Fisher argued that America mandates
more vaccines than any nation, that almost everyone now knows someone
injured after one of the 69 doses on the schedule, and that the
long-term study comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children,
requested for decades, had still never been done.
In
2012, CNBC allowed opposing parties to discuss if it was ethical or
rational to fire healthcare workers for refusing flu shots.
An
Atlanta WSB-TV Channel 2 investigation examined how the federal Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program, funded by a surcharge consumers pay while
manufacturers are shielded from lawsuits, was failing the people it was
built for. It followed an EMT left with a permanent brain injury after a
job-required flu shot who waited seven years for the government to
acknowledge her claim, with Barbara Loe Fisher noting she had advised
Congress when the program was created.
A
few segments have aired which discussed the link between vaccines and
Autism. In 1999, shortly before a Congressional hearing on autism, it
was discussed on Fox News.
In 1999, CNN aired a balanced program on vaccine induced autism which included injured children.
In
1999 and 2000, ABC News aired two segments on the links between
vaccines and autism (including cases of rapid regressions), noting that
everyone agreed the condition was increasing (whereas now vaccine
defenders claim it is not), and that the government would “do more
research” to find out why.
Note:
the endless mantra within the medical field is that people only have
concerns about vaccines because “Wakefield conned the public with a
fraudulent study and incited a hysteria.” As the chronology of these
media clips shows, it should be very clear major concerns existed about
vaccine brain damage long before Wakefield (whose accurate study has been continually misrepresented).
In
2000, MSNBC aired a segment on what parents should know before
vaccinating that moved from an Offspring Magazine editor’s cautious tips
into a debate between Barbara Loe Fisher and Dr. Nancy Snyderman, where
Fisher recounted her son’s DPT convulsion and regression and pressed
how many “coincidences” it would take before the medical community
stopped attributing every post-vaccination injury to chance.
In
2002, WFAA (a Dallas station) aired a program highlighting the link
between mercury containing vaccines and autism and the CDC’s refusal to
share their data assessing the link:
In 2002, a local Fox station also aired a segment focusing on how vaccines cause autism.
In
2004, CNN aired a segment which openly discussed the dangers of
vaccination and the importance for parental choice on vaccination:
In 2007, CBS hosted a program which discussed vaccination in general and developmental regression:
In 2007, The Christian Broadcasting Network hosted a vaccines and autism segment:
In 2008, CBS’s The Doctors allowed a gentle debate on the subject where vaccine brain injury was discussed:
The
same year, CNN had the doctor who was able to get the US government to
acknowledge vaccines caused his daughter’s autism to also discuss the
topic with their medical correspondent:
Likewise,
in 2008, Sharyl Attkisson interviewed the former NIH director, who
acknowledged that some children may develop autism from vaccines and
that this possibility needs to stop being dismissed and instead
researched so the susceptible children can be identified (which I agree
is critically important to do, but unfortunately never will happen
because it reduces potential vaccine sales).
Additionally,
in 2008, CBS aired a segment by Sharyl Attkisson which highlighted the
immense conflicts of interest with the “experts” pushing many vaccines.
In
2009, Larry King on CNN hosted Jenna McCarthy and Jim Carrey discussed
the dangers of excessive vaccination, how they treated vaccine-induced
autism and how doctors were refusing to help autistic children.
In
2009, CBS also aired a national and local segment on the link between
autism and vaccines (with the national one featuring Andrew Wakefield)
Note: the “expert” here who obnoxiously dismissed autism causing vaccines was a close friend of Fauci and
a decade later was nominated by Fauci to chair the NIH panel which
decided how COVID should be treated in America. There, he repeatedly
concluded remdesivir should be the primary treatment and dismissed off
patent therapies which much better evidence, likely in part due to him having received significant funding from remdesivir’s manufacturer.
In
2011, Fox News aired a segment on vaccines causing autism and that
parents who’d received compensation for it were willing to speak out on
the issue at risk of losing that compensation.
That same year, a local Fox station hosted a mother of an autistic child who defended Andrew Wakefield’s work.
Note: in a 2013 Washington Post segment
(largely a defense of vaccination (a physician was brought on to rebut
the concerns), NVIC’s Theresa Wrangham was still given room to make the
informed-consent case: that the Institute of Medicine’s own reports
concede large gaps in vaccine science, that many reported reactions have
never been properly studied, and that parents are entitled to weigh
those risks themselves.
In 2015, Newsmax aired, what
as far as I know, was the last vaccines causing autism segment aired
until RFK’s H.H.S.’s nomination forced it back into the public
discourse.
In
2015, during a measles outbreak, CNN allowed an integrative
cardiologist to challenge the MMR vaccination push and highlight the
neurological dangers of vaccination.
Likewise, that year Fox News aired a brief debate on the subject.
In 2015, Newsmaxx also invited an integrative neurosurgeon to explain why the push for the measles vaccine was unwarranted.
In
another 2015 Newsmax segment, Barbara Loe Fisher debated a health
commentator, arguing that because the 1986 Act and the 2011 Supreme
Court “unavoidably unsafe” ruling stripped away all liability, the
informed-consent ethic must govern vaccination, and that with waning
pertussis and measles immunity and a huge pipeline of new vaccines, the
science was nowhere near settled.
Finally, a local Virginia station covered why the measles vaccine is not completely necessary.
Alongside
the disaster-specific coverage, the media occasionally aired the
broader fight, whether the state can compel a growing list of vaccines
and how easily it can strip away a family’s right to say no. These
debates always exposed the same fault line, and they’ve all but vanished
from television.
In 1995, NBC’s Today Show aired a debate between
Barbara Loe Fisher and the chickenpox vaccine’s developer and (just as
the FDA approved it), with Fisher questioning whether mass-injecting
healthy babies with a live virus, originally developed for
immunocompromised children, might wane after five to ten years, push
chickenpox into a more dangerous adult population, and raise the risk of
shingles later in life.
Note:
reducing shingles was initially a primary rationale for the vaccination
program and something the CDC eagerly studied. However, after the found
the opposite (mass chickenpox vaccination reduced population herd
immunity and created a significant subsequent singles spike that’s persisted ever since), the researcher’s results were buried and he was kicked out of the CDC.
In
2007, CNN hosted a debate between Barbara Loe Fisher and the CDC’s Dr.
William Schaffner over Prince George’s County, Maryland threatening
parents with jail for not getting their children chickenpox and
hepatitis B shots, with Fisher arguing that mandating an ever-growing
list of new vaccines for school entry, for diseases not even transmitted
in a school setting, abandons the principle of informed consent.
Also
in 2007, Fox News Live hosted a debate between Fisher and a
pediatrician over parents turning to religious exemptions, where Fisher
recounted her sons’ DPT and post-vaccination injuries and argued that
officials should spend less energy interrogating parents’ religious
sincerity and more explaining why so many highly vaccinated children are
chronically ill.
A California news segment featured actor-comedian Rob Schneider (who has since become a massive vaccine safety advocate on Twitter),
an NVIC representative, and a legislative candidate debating AB 2109,
Dr. Richard Pan’s bill (then on the governor’s desk) requiring parents
to obtain a physician’s signature to claim a vaccine exemption, arguing
it would gut the existing opt-out by letting doctors who refuse to sign
simply turn unvaccinated families away.
In
2014, Mississippi Public Broadcasting aired an interview with Barbara
Loe Fisher in which she recounted her son’s 1980 DPT injury, explained
how the schedule had since tripled, and made the case for the
vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated outcomes study that health authorities
have long refused to conduct.
More
recently, Charlottesville’s NBC29 covered a Virginia General Assembly
hearing where hundreds turned out over a proposal to restrict religious
and medical vaccine exemptions, and Barbara Loe Fisher received a
standing ovation for speaking against forced immunization.
In
a follow-up report, NBC29 covered the Joint Commission on Healthcare
briefing at which 674 of 679 public comments favored keeping Virginia’s
existing exemptions and the state health department recommended no
change to the law.
Note: in 2010, PBS’s Frontline aired a mostly pro-vaccine documentary, “The Vaccine War,”
that framed hesitant parents as a threat to public health, yet still
gave communities like Ashland, Oregon real airtime to explain why they
were opting out. That an hour of primetime once treated parental vaccine
refusal as a serious phenomenon worth engaging (rather than simply
censoring) again illustrates how much the media landscape has narrowed
since.
Prior to COVID-19, I considered the HPV vaccine (Gardasil) to be one of the worst vaccines in history as:
•It was completely unnecessary and was produced purely for profit.
•Its clinical trials
showed it was extremely dangerous. For example, between 2.5%-50% of
those who got the vaccine (the range is wide because Merck was
deliberately vague in reporting the injuries) developed autoimmune and
neurological conditions.
•Many young girls I know suffered a severe and permanent injury from the vaccine.
•From
the moment Gardasil hit the market, the FDA and CDC were deluged by
reports of severe adverse reactions—which like the COVID-19 vaccines,
they did everything in their power to cover up (often in a very similar manner).
•It severely affected the physiologic zeta potential, a trait I have seen in many of the other most harmful vaccinations in history (e.g., Anthrax and COVID-19).
Sadly,
as it launched in 2006, there was very little reporting of its dangers
(or the fraud which occurred during its clinical trials) in the American
Press, with the only coverage being:
A 2007 NBC News, in
response to public outcry against mandating the HPV vaccine for
schoolchildren, hosted a segment where opposing parties briefly debated
mandating it.
In 2009, CBS’s Washington DC station aired a segment highlighting the serious issues with the HPV vaccine.
On a 2013 daytime talk show (which received significant pushback from a coordinated pharma campaign, and led to the host apologizing for airing it—along with the cancellation of Katie Couric’s show being announced two weeks after this segment aired).
Along with two brief somewhat critical CBS 2008 and 2009 segments (the first of which was produced by Sharyl Attkisson):
Finally a few critical segments were aired on local news stations (ie. this 2016 one, which was immediately followed by a local segment where an "expert" debunked it):
Note:
I also found another news segment on YouTube of girls injured by
Gardasil I forgot to download before it was deleted for “violating the
terms of service”).
Then in 2022, Charlotte’s WSOC (Action 9,
reported by Jason Stoogenke) covered local North Carolina women who had
filed federal suits against Merck over the lasting symptoms they
attributed to Gardasil, alongside the story of a girl left with
persistent stomach and joint problems after receiving the shots at age
nine.
Note:
those 2022 filings fed into the larger wave of Gardasil injury cases
consolidated into a federal multidistrict litigation in North Carolina.
Even after a judge dismissed a group of more than 200 of those cases in
2025 (concluding they were preempted by the FDA’s approval of the
vaccine’s labeling), Merck chose in 2026 to settle the bulk of the remaining litigation,
paying more than $50 million to resolve over 200 cases, including the
long-running California case of Jennifer Robi that had been headed for a
jury. Merck admitted no liability and maintained the vaccine was safe,
but it acknowledged the payout was “considerably less” than the cost of
continuing to defend the suits, (which tells you why it preferred to
make them disappear rather than face a jury and let the evidence
obtained through discovery play out in open court).
Finally,
since the pharmaceutical industry did not own the European media (as
they can’t advertise there—although the Gates foundation has still found
ways to buy out the press1,2,3),
one Danish station eventually produced a (very restrained) 2015 program
on the injuries from the HPV vaccine and the government’s unwillingness
to do anything about it:
Like
many of the previous news programs, this one (despite being extremely
restrained in what it mentioned) was immensely controversial, caught on
like wildfire, and made many HPV vaccine injured girls realize they were
not alone.
One
of the key points RFK has repeatedly emphasized is how much power the
pharmaceutical industry holds over the press. He often tells the story
of his close friend Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News, who
was supportive of RFK coming on air to discuss his documentary critical
of vaccination. Despite that, Ailes couldn’t allow it, because roughly
70% to 75% of Fox’s advertising came from pharmaceutical companies, and
Fox couldn’t afford to lose that revenue by offending its sponsors.
Much
of this traces back to a 1997 FDA decision to effectively legalize
direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising, making America one of
only two countries on earth (alongside New Zealand) to permit it. In
response, two solutions are now emerging. First, RFK’s team is making a historic attempt to pull back and restrict pharmaceutical advertising,
something that has needed doing for decades. Even sitting presidents
are now willing to say things that would have been unthinkable on
network television a few years ago. In a recent Full Measure interview with Sharyl Attkisson,
for example, President Trump argued that the childhood schedule has
ballooned far beyond that of comparable countries, that injecting so
much into small infants is a harmful thing to do, and that he’d like to
see far fewer and smaller shots given over more visits, which he expects
would produce far better outcomes on autism.
Second, every
large media business is ultimately balancing two things: not offending
its sponsors, and not offending (but rather growing) its audience.
Because of the monopoly the mass media long held, it was possible to air
inane and frequently false content that served sponsors without losing
viewers, so there was never any incentive to air the truth audiences
actually wanted. The recent rise of independent media, which frequently
outpaces its conventional counterparts, has broken that monopoly,
because once people can choose, they would rather watch real news that
is relevant to their lives (which is why I am so grateful to each of you
for supporting Substack’s model which lets me do just that).
Likewise,
consider Sharyl Attkisson, Megyn Kelly, and Tucker Carlson. All three
had to leave their pivotal mainstream positions to become independent
journalists, yet each now arguably has more influence than before, along
with the freedom to cover what they want to. As a result,
once-untouchable subjects like the dangers of vaccination are finally
getting widespread exposure on their platforms, and more independent
productions have been made on the dangers of the COVID vaccines than on
virtually every prior vaccine combined. Nonetheless, it’s also worth
noting we still are seeing virtually no mainstream commentary on COVID
vaccine injuries (excluding occasional ones on Fox and a few smaller
conservative networks) despite the fact far more people were injured
from the COVID vaccine than any other one in history—which I believe
encapsulates why the mainstream media is rapidly making itself extinct.
Finally,
if you watched all of the segments above, you’ll have noticed that the
person who advocated for the vaccine-injured on national television
across the decades was, again and again, Barbara Loe Fisher, who
accurately predicted the mishaps and catastrophes that would follow each
successive vaccine. That fell to her partly through her own unwavering
dedication, but also because there was almost never a physician
available to do the same, other than Robert S. Mendelsohn, an articulate
media presence who featured in the 1983 Donahue debate but regrettably
passed away in 1988. COVID changed that. For the first time, there is
now a contingent of highly persuasive physicians receiving regular
airtime to wake the public up and lend the movement the mainstream
credibility it never had.
Even ten years ago, almost no one in the
vaccine safety movement imagined a shift like this was possible, and
much of it is thanks to readers and viewers like you, whose support
makes the rise of independent media possible. I am truly grateful to
every one of you who has supported the work that I, and so many others,
are now able to do.
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