A Tale of Two Sides: A Novel On Vaccines and Disease

Go deeper into the various conflicts of interest in vaccine approval and vaccine safety oversight at our CDC. These issues raise a very important question for parents who are trying to make the vaccine decision for their kids -- Can parents trust the three-way partnership between our government (CDC/FDA/HHS), the pediatric medical establishment, and vaccine manufacturers? Or do parents need to evaluate the science for themselves?

Everyone knows that some level of financial conflicts of interest exists in our government involving many different areas of business and industry, and corruption is inevitable when billions of dollars are at stake. But when it comes to our nation's children, and the altruistic world of pediatric medicine and vaccination, surely our kids are protected from any and all such nefarious intentions. Find out what one Congressman does when faced with truths that paint a very different picture.

Go deeper into the vaccines/autism research with JPR

Mainstream medicine has concluded that there is no relationship between vaccines and autism. Yet, many young children develop signs of autism and suffer developmental regression in close timing with vaccines. Go to work with one nurse who has started to wonder why she keeps seeing this regression in her pediatric patients. Should her own observations influence her opinion of routine childhood vaccines, or should she just stick to the science and do her job? 

Go deeper into the vaccines/SIDS discussion as JPR explores the recent Vaccine Injury Court case in which a family finally "won" for this type of fatal adverse event. What new scientific finding was there that prompted the court judge to rule that vaccines likely played a role in this particular case of SIDS? Will this new information pave the way for future vaccines/SIDS claims, or will the Vaccine Injury Court judge this new science to be invalid?

For decades, 2000 American infants have died every year from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Some of these deaths occur within 48 hours of a baby's first round of 8 vaccines. Is there a connection? Most research says no, and that is why thousands of families lose their cases in vaccine injury court. But something has changed. New research is shining a light on a connection, and a family has finally won . . . if anyone could ever call compensation for losing your baby to vaccine injury "winning." 

Should parents be able to opt out of vaccines after their child has a severe reaction? The standard of care says only those with a severe, coma-causing brain injury or with life-threatening anaphylactic shock have the right to decline more shots. But are vaccines so critical that people who "only" have a seizure, nerve injury, spinal cord paralysis, allergic reactions that don't cause shock, and other injuries should be forced to continue? Is your politician trying to force this law in your state?

Jackson Jones and Doctor/Senator Donaldson start their nationwide tour to convince other States to follow California's lead on making vaccines mandatory and eliminating vaccine medical exemption. Have a scotch with a group of Senators and hear the master plan on saving our nation's children. But when the doctor-turned-politician is left to try to explain the science and medicine behind her idealistic plans, will intelligent Senators see her pharma-backed plans for what they really are?

JPR talks about the real-life events that inspired the setting for the conversation in this chapter. The MEPP program did exist, and its results were published. And a news story was released that disclosed the HIPAA violations when school nurses first sent in unredacted medical records to the health department and the California Medical Board. And while HIPAA, FERPA, and other CA laws prohibit such sharing of medical information, no one has called these CA nurses out. 

Should children be allowed to stop vaccinating after they suffer a severe side effect? And who gets to decide: the parents, the personal physician, or government officials at the state medical board and health department? Listen in as two state employees discuss their departments' attempts to track down doctors who are siding with their patients who suffer family vaccine injuries. Are school nurses and health departments breaking the law, and does anyone even care?