We try not to make these red pills too “current thingy”, we’re trying to go for the thymeless vibe to be honest. But 1) I’ve been wanting to do a vaccine article for some time and 2) I can’t resist diving into this whole Rogan-RFK-Hotez drama.
For those unaware, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went on Joe Rogan’s podcast. RFK is running for president, but vaccine critics will have already been following his career for years, if not decades. His Rogan appearance was an absolute slam dunk — anyone who’s not deeply ideologically committed to scientism instantly recognized that RFK is an intelligent researcher with a rare dose of integrity. Endlessly accused of “misinformation”, careful listeners soon realize that he’s been unfairly maligned.
Enter Peter Hotez, vaccine fanatic. Basically went on a tweet-storm about how platforming RFK is “dangerous”, how Joe is borderline “neofascist” (weird way to treat a guy that’s had you on his show before), etc. etc. blah blah, we’ve seen it all before. Where it got interesting was when Rogan offered Hotez a debate spot against RFK with unlimited time. He also offered $100k to a charity of choice, which quickly ballooned to over $1.5 million from matched offers. So far, Hotez refuses the chance.
It’s fascinating that this happened a mere few days after Steve Kirsch graced the Rare Candy airwaves for the first time, in which he makes clear how scared this gang is of honest debate. Steve matched Joe’s substantial cash incentive to foster the debate, by the way.
The “anti-vaccine, misinformation, pseudoscience” rhetoric is just that — rhetoric, with nothing to back it. The term “anti-vax” is losing value every single day (Rare Candy has been in a profitable leveraged short for years), as more and more people realize that several elements of the vaccine zeitgeist are indefensible. I thought it would be valuable to offer a few of the more ridiculous examples of vaccine “science” and policy to perhaps sway some fence-sitters. Why? Because I often find that the “moderate” position on vaccines, like so many other issues, isn’t an organic position, but one adopted to merely keep its owner psychologically safe (blue pilled). A true appraisal of vaccines is enough to send anyone with a heart into shock.
Reagan Act of 1986
As RFK claims, Reagan signed a health bill in 1986 that gave vaccine manufacturers 100% liability immunity from injury lawsuits. This makes them the only medical product with such a ludicrous exemption, in an already corrupt background of USA pharmaceutical policy. Over 4 billion dollars has already been paid out to families injured by vaccines, and this includes recognized cases of vaccine induced autism.
This act essentially created a kangaroo court, where taxpayers have to pay for the medical failures of pharmaceutical corporations, who get to keep all profits with zero liability. Since vaccines are baked into American medical culture and law, recommended by the CDC at precise age intervals, required to attend public school in most instances, this means that the American people bear the financial and medical burden for an essentially mandated medical treatment that we know causes a non-zero amount of injuries and death.
Furthermore, we’ve given this legal immunity to Pfizer, who has already paid out record fines for drugs that they were liable for. Have they earned such a privilege? LOL.
Questions for vaccine advocates regarding the 1986 act:
Was the 1986 act good or bad? If good, why?
If vaccine injuries are real, should pharma companies be held liable for damages?
Why does VAERS exist if vaccine injuries are exceedingly rare?
Why did the CDC childhood vaccine schedule explode immediately following the 1986 act?
Are countries like Japan “anti-vax” for having a more moderate vax schedule?
For pro-vaccine leftists: how does supporting or defending the 1986 Reagan vaccine act fit into your overall political vision?
Vaccines and Autism
We’ve all been inundated with the propaganda that “vaccines don’t cause autism”, Andrew Wakefield was discredited (even though his findings have been replicated multiple times), and that autism is genetic and not environmental.
Yet we know through multiple studies that autistic children have much higher concentrations of heavy metals in their brains. We also know that injected metals from vaccines aren’t excreted fully, and indeed travel easily through the blood-brain barrier into the brain, where they appear to reside.
The CDC gives dire warnings against consuming mercury through fish and other foods, yet ingested mercury is absorbed much less readily than injected.
We also know that there is a huge connection between autism and gut health, and indeed gut and brain health. We know that metals in vaccines are antagonistic to healthy gut flora.
Furthermore, we know anecdotally that thousands of mothers have effectively reversed their children’s vaccine-induced autism by putting them on an intensive metal chelation detox protocol, a microbiome rekindling protocol, or a combination of both.
Questions for those that doubt the vaccine-autism connection:
Should human brains, especially brains of children, have low or high levels of toxic metals? If we’re concerned about lead pipes in Flint MI, shouldn’t we be vastly more concerned with ritual injections of heavy metals?
Why is the CDC concerned with ingested metals, but not injected metals?
What do you think of the Simpsonwood CDC conference transcripts? Why are top scientists apparently concerned (behind closed doors) about injected metals?
Does it concern you that, according to CDC whistleblowers, the CDC threw away data proving a link between the MMR vaccine and autism?
If autism isn’t environmental or terrain-based, how are based moms able to reverse it in their children through environmental changes?
Efficacy
Even if vax advocates are willing to concede the two previous points, that the 1986 act is bogus and that there might be a rare causal autism link to vaccines (rare being debatable), they still insist that vaccines are necessary to avoid serious illness and disease. The final stand of the vaccine argument is that they offer a great cost-benefit, risk-reward that can’t be sacrificed to satisfy anti-vaxxers.
Yet as Dissolving Illusions so convincingly points out, almost every vaccine success story has been either wildly exaggerated or completely fabricated — and in the case of some diseases like polio, often the story of the disease itself has been completely whitewashed.
Measles is the most hilarious example. Not only did the vaccine do virtually nothing to the already-declining death rate of measles, there was once a time in which kids were purposefully infected with it. This is because 1) no one was scared of it any more and 2) it gave lifelong, robust immunity, unlike the vaccine.
How many news stories do we need to hear blaming the unvaccinated for a measles outbreak, where upon further digging, it turns out the outbreak happened in a fully vaccinated community? Vaccine immunity is often given unfair status as equal or superior to natural immunity, and this is never the case.
My first vaccine pill was getting full-blown whooping cough as a fully vaccinated teenager. I’d wake up at 3 a.m. unable to breath, which was terrifying. My doctor gave me antibiotics, which of course were useless. Why did I get a breakthrough infection?
Vaxvocates say we need to vaccinate everyone to gain herd immunity. This is, of course, pseudoscientific bullshit. Maybe those that sold us this lie aren’t being honest regarding other critical vaccine issues?
Questions for vaccine advocates about efficacy:
If vaccines work as advertised, why are the non-vaccinated a threat to anyone but themselves?
Why are naturopathic doctors so easily able to cure a measles infection, resulting in lifelong immunity for the child and a much more robust and authentic herd immunity?
If you believed that measles vaccines ended measles deaths, and this turned out to be false, do you still trust those that taught you that lie in the first place? If so, why?
Why are critics of laughably ineffective vaccines, such as the flu vax or HPV vax, labeled “anti-vaxxers”? Aren’t they pointing to a medical truth?
In closing
If none of these very basic vaccine pills move the needle for you personally, at this point you’re probably a lost cause. Enjoy the ever-expanding CDC vaccine schedule for you and your children, and God forbid any injuries occur due to vaccines in your life, best of luck in the vaccine kangaroo court. Can’t say we didn’t warn you.
Peter Hotez is a little punk, he’s the absolute perfect representative of vaccine science, and this is a cultural moment that will reverberate for years to come. Many of us have been waiting for this conversation for decades. My hats off to RFK and other advocates who tirelessly fought against all this nonsense from the start, immediately being dismissed out of hand as kooks and conspiracy nuts. Their bravery will not be forgotten.
To your health!
-Psi
BTW I met a woman who was in La Leche League back in the 80s and she said most of the women in the organization were opposed to the vaccination of children, but this was before the whole "anti-vaxxer" smear came into being.
Excellent piece. And you guys got Steve Kirsch? I blinked and I missed it.