By Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone dot org.

The Third Big Lie of Vaccinology - Insisting My Immunity is Dependent on Your Vaccination - runs contrary to basic logic and rationality.

This Big Lie is based on fear-mongering and scapegoating, two of the most irrational and anti-scientific approaches to manipulating human behavior. It is surprising and dismaying that this lie is successfully foisted upon the population so often, but here we are.

If My Immunity Depends on Your Vaccination, Then the Vaccine Doesn't Work

Disproving this Big Lie is so straightforward that I fear insulting the reader's intelligence by spelling it out step-by-step. Let us do so in the form of a standard syllogism.

If:

Person A has received a vaccine for a given disease, and

The vaccine "worked" - it provided person A with immunity to the disease

Then:

Another person (Person B) cannot give person A the disease.

That's all there is to it.

Should I (Person A) insist that you (Person B) are still a threat to infect me with the disease for some reason, for example, that you are unvaccinated, then I am stating that the conclusion of the syllogism is false. If the conclusion is false, then at least one of the premises must be false. If I did in fact get the vaccine, then the first premise is true. In that case, the second premise must be false.

In other words, if I get vaccinated and my immunity is still dependent on your vaccination, then the vaccine doesn't work.

Period.

The Liar's Defense: Moving the Goalposts

Now, if I was an intellectually dishonest vaccine zealot (and such people do exist), I very likely would respond to this exposure of my Big Lie by employing a favorite argumentative fallacy of vaccinology: moving the goalposts.

Deliberately ignoring the fact that my Big Lie has been disproven, I might deceptively shift the argument in a number of ways. Such tactics were employed again and again during Covid.

Perhaps I'd make the pseudoscientific claim that everyone must be vaccinated to achieve the quasi-mythical state of "herd immunity." Never mind that the flawed concept of herd immunity is only even theoretically possible with vaccines that provide "sterilizing" immunity, which the large majority of vaccines do not provide. The Covid vaccines couldn't and didn't provide sterilizing immunity. (Fauci and company knew this from the start, but they still peddled the lie of herd immunity to push for mandatory vaccination against Covid.)

Maybe I'd take a totalitarian approach, and insist that your vaccination is a social responsibility to which you must comply, and which you have no right to refuse. This argument violates the 4 Pillars of Medical Ethics, especially the first: Autonomy. It also contradicts fundamental American jurisprudence, as stated by Justice Benjamin Cardozo in 1914: "Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body."

Ultimately, it doesn't matter how often or in where I move the goalposts. The fact remains: if I get vaccinated and my immunity is still dependent on your vaccination, then the vaccine doesn't work.

We noted before that the Third Big Lie of Vaccinology is steeped in fear-mongering and scapegoating. Pushing such emotion-based reasons for belief serves a second purpose: it also promotes magical thinking about vaccines. If you are programmed to hold nonsensical, fear-based beliefs about immunity, you can easily be convinced of fantastic, even magical absurdities about public health as well.

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