AN ALMIGHTY row has broken out in America over the decision by the Centers for Disease Control’s vaccine advisory committee to stop automatically injecting every newborn baby with the hepatitis B vaccine.
The country’s most vocal vaccinologists and paediatricians are up in arms at this ruling, arguing that it will put children’s health at risk and cause cases of hep B to rise. Before the vaccine, they allege, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with the virus. Now, it is fewer than 20.
Detractors maintain the opposite; that this injection given so early in life is not only unnecessary but will harm the health of children rather than protect them.
At the heart of this fierce debate is Aaron Siri, a lawyer who represents plaintiffs in vaccine-related lawsuits against federal agencies and pharmaceutical companies. His new book, Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines, contains possibly the most devastating takedown of the vaccine industry yet published.
In it, he asserts that vaccines are more akin to a religion than a science, with their articles of faith, high priests, clergy and armies of adherents who will defend to the death their belief in these wondrous products. Vaccines, believers will tell you, have saved millions of lives the world over.
But, says Siri, there is very little evidence of benefit from any vaccine yet developed. At one time, he writes, he too believed in the wonder of vaccines and it was not until he began representing families whose children had suffered injuries believed to be caused by vaccines that his views started to change.
In order to represent these families, Siri had to dive deep into the vaccine industry and take depositions from vaccinologists as part of the lawsuits. He discovered that America’s leading vaccine specialists had all received huge sums from Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, America’s main vaccine manufacturers. Dr Stanley Plotkin, for instance, known as the godfather of vaccines, and author of the highly praised standard textbook Plotkin’s Vaccines, first published in 1988 and now in its eighth edition, had received $182million (£137million) in royalties from pharmaceutical companies. ‘And yet,’ writes Siri, ‘he spoke as if he was an impartial scientist.’
Pharma, writes Siri, has funded every single aspect of Plotkin’s career. He has sat on the board of virtually every pharmaceutical company that makes vaccines, while another prominent vaccinologist, Dr Paul Offit – a vociferous opponent of Aaron Siri – has also earned millions from pharma.
In fact, all the vaccine disciples have extensive entanglements with pharma, the engine behind the religion of vaccinology. Most of the leading medical journals are also funded by pharma and this is one reason why you won’t find any anti-vaccine articles in these publications.
But what really caused America’s vaccine industry to become so powerful and uncontested was the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, whereby vaccine manufacturers were granted immunity from injuries apparently caused by their products.
Why was this? Why would vaccine-makers need this protection? Siri says it was because pre-1986 some vaccine companies were going out of business as they were being held liable for injuries. As the vaccine industry grew and uptake increased, so did lawsuits and this led to some companies exiting the vaccine trade for fear of being sued.
This wouldn’t do at all, and so the 1986 Act exempted them from all liability. As a direct result, the vaccine industry flourished as never before. At the same time, according to Siri, children’s health began to decline drastically. Pre-1986, three vaccines were mandated; now it is 72 and woe betide any parent who refuses the jabs for their children. Unvaccinated children can be excluded from school and in some cases forcibly removed from the parental home and taken into care.
Here, Siri is at his most uncompromising. He says that thanks to the 1986 Act, there is no motivation for a vaccine company to identify safety issues. Vaccines are the only product where the company can literally get away with killing someone. Worse, if you can call your product a ‘vaccine’ you are automatically immune from any liability. There is nothing, he adds, that is driving vaccine safety.
But what about the vaccines themselves? Are they indeed miracle cures or are they a complete con? Siri has closely investigated all the main vaccines now injected into Americans and concludes that not one – no, not a single one – has ever been necessary or has halted an infectious disease in its tracks.
For instance, the public has been led to believe that but for the development of the measles vaccine, Americans would be dropping down dead in their millions from this disease. But official figures show that the death rate from measles declined by 98 per cent between 1900 and 1960, three years before the first measles vaccine was introduced. It is far more likely, says Siri, that the measles vaccine caused more deaths than it saved.
The vaccine industry asserts that ‘other vaccines also saved us’ yet Siri provides clear evidence that by the time a vaccine was introduced for each previously feared disease, deaths from these conditions were already extremely rare. He believes that deaths or serious injury would have continued to decline without the introduction of a vaccine. Even cases of polio, widely believed to have been eradicated, at least in the West, by the Salk and Sabin vaccines, were declining sharply before the introduction of the polio jab in 1955.
Perhaps the most telling example that Siri cites is scarlet fever. Children who were diagnosed with this infection (including my ex-husband when he was seven) were put into an isolation hospital and not allowed visitors, even from family members. Neville says he never felt even slightly ill. His saddest memory, he says, is that his precious bus ticket collection was burned as a precaution!
Yet scarlet fever declined and disappeared in this same time frame without a vaccine ever being developed. A vaccine has NEVER been developed for scarlet fever. But it’s gone just the same.
When writing about vaccines Siri goes into forensic detail, as one might expect from a lawyer, and his findings are impossible to ignore. Since the 1980s, when vaccine companies were granted immunity from lawsuits, there has been a huge rise in autism among children. Yet we continue to hear the mantra: ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’.
In general, the vaccinated have far higher rates of chronic health conditions than the unvaccinated, including asthma, allergies and developmental delays. But we are told time and again that vaccines are safe and effective. When it comes to these products, says Siri, no thinking is allowed. The vaccine cult is so strong that it has persuaded large sections of the public that everyone must be injected.
Meanwhile, the religion of vaccines brands non-believers with a pejorative it hopes will silence them for ever. Politicians who know nothing about vaccines express profound disbelief that anybody would refuse to be injected.
Sounds familiar?
As with dictators, tyrants and other authoritarians, vaccinologists use coercion because they cannot persuade on merits and they censor, punish or dehumanise all those who dare to defy them. But as Siri points out, the ‘anti-vaxxers’ are the ones who have made an informed choice based on careful research. The naysayers are usually highly educated, highly intelligent individuals who are capable of doing their own thinking and refuse to go along blindly with the herd. That’s us, the TCW writers and readers. Thanks for the compliment, Aaron!
Siri comes on to the covid vaccines which, according to the multinational news media CNN, have saved more than three million lives in the US. In arriving at this figure, logic has been suspended and statistics ignored, he states.
This account, written in quite a jolly style considering its disturbing content, lays bare the vaccine industry for what it is: a deeply corrupt, profit-focused concern that has far more in common with a sinister satanic cult than a benign medical intervention. And while it continues to rake in billions, the health of both children and adults is being compromised.
Aaron Siri deals only with what is happening in America, but the decision to delay injecting newborns with the hepatitis B vaccine could have a profound impact over here. Unlike in the US, children’s vaccinations in the UK are not mandated, but heaven help any parent who has the temerity to refuse them.
As I wrote on TCW on November 3, since September 2017 babies in the UK are routinely injected with the hep B vaccine at eight weeks old, but if the mother has been infected this shot is given at birth. Babies and young children here are now given 17 different vaccines from birth to three years old.
Is it too much to hope that, given the new CDC ruling and Aaron Siri’s troubling book, the business of injecting so many foreign substances into babies will now be questioned and the whole bloated and dishonest vaccine industry start to crumble?
It may not be such a wild fantasy as, at the very least, a significant start has been made. And once you see the evidence, Siri tells us, you cannot unlearn the truth. How right he is.
Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines by Aaron Siri is published in the US by Injecting Freedom LLC and is available here from Amazon.
