“The Third Level of the Discussion
There is no doubt that vaccines and vaccination is one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. It’s safe to assume that every day innumerable vaccine-related discussions are taking place in virtually every corner of the internet world. These discussions, whose active participants and readers are usually parents, are typically conducted on one of three levels, and the results can be predicted according to the level on which the discussion is taking place.
On the first (and shallowest) level of vaccine discussion, critics usually have the upper hand. Video clips and photos of children whose parents say were badly injured by vaccines, reports of vaccine manufacturers’ corruption and criminal activities, and horrifying stories of malpractice and incompetence within the medical system catch the attention of many parents, often causing them to stop and reconsider their position regarding vaccination. But that is seldom the end of it. Usually, vaccine proponents, typically science students or professionals in the medical or medical sciences fields, are quick to counter, harnessing the nearest available science to refute the critics. They often provide a plethora of scientific evidence that appears to confirm–unequivocally–the institutional assertion that vaccines are indeed safe and effective. And they do so with self-confidence, scientific proficiency, and apparent expertise in vaccine research.
This is the second level of the discussion. Most of the participating parents find it difficult to keep up with the skilled professionals at this point. They typically lack the expertise to critique a scientific paper on vaccines and are only rarely capable of challenging its content or conclusions. Vaccine proponents, who are mostly academically trained, are thus playing on their “home court”, and the result, almost always, reflects their built-in advantage over their lay opponents. Many vaccine discussions end at this point, with the pro-vaccination side coming out on top–but not all. Sometimes, among the vaccine critics there is someone who takes the discussion to the next level–the third one.
At this level, the science put forward by the professionals to prove their claims is itself critically scrutinized. Then, the bare and ugly truth is exposed, just as it has been documented in this book: Vaccine science is woefully incomplete and biased, deliberately designed and performed to satisfy the interests of its funders (as opposed to the public), science that willfully refuses to tell the whole truth.
This is the final stage of the discussion–when vaccine proponents run out of pertinent arguments. They just don’t have answers to the issues raised. Vaccine science is rigged and, although they feel they must deny it, they know it is so. Game over.
Medical Tyranny: Shutting Down Criticism
When the vaccine debate evolved to the third level, it became an existential threat to the medical establishment. The entire vaccine construction was suddenly in serious jeopardy of being exposed as the giant fraud it is. Something had to be done. Up until ten to fifteen years ago, the medical establishment didn’t exhibit any reluctance to have its representatives participate in public confrontations with vaccine critics. The typical televised debate on the issue, which usually pitted the “dignified and reasonable expert” against the “emotional vaccine-skeptical mother”, served the institutional narrative well. The mother described the harm that vaccines had allegedly done to her child, and the expert, while expressing empathy for her child’s misfortune, asserted that any link between vaccination and the child’s condition had been unequivocally refuted by science. Discussions of this sort perfectly aligned with the institutional desire to define the vaccine debate as “experts versus parents” or “science versus anecdotes”.
But over time, to the establishment’s growing dismay, a new breed of parents began to appear in these debates. These parents, who spent years of their life studying vaccine science, were presenting arguments similar to “turtles all the way down”, which the “dignified experts” found very difficult to counter. Doctors and scientists who spoke on behalf of the vaccine establishment came to realize these debates would no longer be the “walk in the park” they’d expected. The parents were winning.
This process, which took place in the US in the first decade of the 21st century, and later in many other Western nations, spelled the end of open vaccine debate in mainstream media.
Confronted with the arguments laid down in this book, the medical establishment was quick to realize that in order to keep the great vaccine fraud alive it had but one choice: Squelch the discussion.
Winning debates with biased research and appeals to authority, a strategy which had been so successful before, was no longer a viable option. Everyone in mainstream media seems to have “gotten the memo”, as in a few short years vaccine-critical voices completely disappeared from television and the rest of mainstream media.
And the era of witch-hunting vaccine critics commenced.
No vaccine-choice advocate or parent of a vaccine-injured child was ever allowed to make their case publicly.
No vaccine-critical doctor or scientist, attorney or law professor was invited to speak.
Anyone who dared criticize any aspect of the vaccine program was re-branded as an “anti-vaxxer”, and it was open season from there on:
Critics were de-legitimized,
marginalized,
and derided,
no matter their credentials.
Leading scientists, accomplished physicians, a Nobel Prize laureate, and even lay-people asking questions–all were branded and brutally attacked by the media, as well as by medical establishment and industry henchmen, the moment they spoke out about vaccine reservations.
In 1976, the CBS network’s famed 60 Minutes show aired its prime-time investigation on the fabricated “swine flu” epidemic. Only one person died of the flu, while millions received a rushed vaccine, which was later withdrawn.
More than 450 vaccinated people developed the paralyzing Guillain-Barré syndrome, and at least 25 died.
In 1982, NBC aired DPT: Vaccine Roulette, an hour-long documentary on children who had been hurt by the DPT vaccine, produced by journalist Lea Thompson.
This type of program, which created a public outcry at the time, is unfortunately no longer allowed on US television.
The last person to attempt injecting some vaccine truth was talk-show host Katie Couric, who in 2013 interviewed a mother whose daughter died shortly after receiving the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.
Following the airing of the show, Couric was immediately attacked by every major news outlet for, in her own words, “[ spending] too much time on the serious adverse events that have been reported in very rare cases following the vaccine.”
She was quick to issue a public apology, thus, presumably, paying the price for her “dire mistake” and saving her career.
To date, no one in mainstream media has dared to follow in her footsteps.
Thus, when even the voice of the injured was no longer allowed to be heard, media reporting of vaccine-related issues became completely one-sided: Only vociferous proponents of vaccines are now allowed to speak–as the ordained priests of “Science”.
Science is the new religion, and the medical establishment is its prophet.
Our new god has spoken: “Vaccines are safe and effective!”
Science, and science alone, should be allowed to speak on the subject of vaccination.
Vaccine critics, by virtue of any opinion that is not wholeheartedly supportive of the entirety of the vaccine program, regardless of their scientific credentials or the merits of their arguments, should never be allowed to speak–not even in the name of the once-revered principle of “journalistic balance”–since their “lies” might “endanger” public health.
This is how the public has been brainwashed to believe that, when it comes to vaccines, free and open debate is “dangerous” and unacceptable.”
— Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth by Anonymous
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