Christopher A. Shaw - Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars: Fighting for Human Freedom During the Great Reset

Copyright 2021 by Christopher A. Shaw

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The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

Murray Bookchin

Dedication

For my new son, Lucien:

The LORD shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and forever.

Psalms 121:8

And in memory of my dearest friend, Lewis Dauber:

Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright of heart.

Psalms 97:11

Murray Bookchin (19212006) was an influential American political philosopher. The quote is taken from The Meaning of Confederalism, Green Perspectives, no. 20 (1990).

Contents

Acknowledgments

There are literally too many people to thank for their help with various aspects of this book in this short space. Some of those who helped are named here; others who equally helped, or helped in understanding some aspect of this very complex story, may not be named, since the very nature of the book might put their careers at risk. Of the first group, my deepest thanks to my laboratory colleagues Michael Kuo, Suresh Bairwa, and Janice Yoo, and Drs. Jess Morrice and Housam Eidi. Truly, the book would not have occurred without their help. Rabbis Dick Ettelson and Zev Epstein gave valuable critiques and religious information that were essential. Professor John Oller and Amy Newhook provided extremely valuable comments on a draft of the manuscript, and I owe them both my deepest gratitude for their careful and cogent suggestions. Drs. David Lewis and James Lyons-Weiler also provided much-needed critiques. Aaron Siri, Alan Cassels, Courtenay Stellar, Katrin Geist, and Bruce Cahan all provided feedback and encouragement. Thanks also to Leah Rosenberg, Dr. Mateja Cernic, Dr. Alvin Moss and Dr. Robert Sears, Ambra Fedrigo, Micheal Vonn, Jill McEachern, and Darcy Fysh. My thanks also to Tony Lyons for accepting the books initial proposal and to Caroline Russomanno for her incredibly helpful copy editing. Annaka Cox designed an early version of the book cover. I thank Danika Surm for taking on the bulk of parenting of my smaller children while much of this book was being written. Also, thank-yous to those I cannot name: youve each contributed bits that have helped move this project to completion. Next, I need to offer a somewhat backward thanks to some former colleagues on the left: watching some of you turn yourselves into pretzels to accommodate progressive views while kowtowing to the pharmaceutical cartel was a wonder to behold.

As this book goes to press, I want to acknowledge the passing of a friend and comrade-in-arms, Alex Moreau (ervan): You fought against monsters, Alex. Your job is done; be at peace. Her biji!

Last, but definitely not least, my love to all of my children, Ariel, Emma, Caius, Tevah, and Lucien, for putting up with me being mentally absent much of the last year: I know this was tough; I can only hope that one day you will see that it might all have been worthwhile.

Preface

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Melvin A. Benarde

The present book arose from diverse circumstances that were nevertheless related by a common theme: vaccine safety.

Vaccine safety, like the pejorative term anti-vaxxer, is a suitcase phrase in that within two simple words are a number of subthemes that span an enormous range. These include the concepts of what science is, and isnt; what those who are pro- or anti-vaccinenot to mention a vast middle-of-the-road groupactually believe; the fears that people in both pro- and anti-camps harbor; how the questions raised by the various groupings have impacted and, in turn, been impacted by politicians; and, not least, the elephants in the room, the interlocking roles of the pharmaceutical industry (the pharma), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The pharma is often seen in some circles as somehow a benign player. People, especially those whose stances tend to be highly on the pro-vax side, may acknowledge the serious money the industry makes from vaccines, acknowledge the very clear evidence that the same industry is rife with corruption and preventable disasters like Vioxx, and yet fail to see the possibility that money and corruption play a role in how vaccines are developed and rolled out to a public that has been trained to trust vaccine doctrine completely. Governmental agencies in the United States, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and internationally, such as WHO, are often seen as neutral and generally beneficial bodies, even by people normally distrustful of pretty much anything governments do. This odd phenomenon crosses the political divide, often in some very peculiar ways.

I came into research in the vaccine safety area quite by chance. First, I should point out that I am not an ophthalmologist regardless of the medical department I am in at my university. In actual fact, I am a neuroscientist by training and profession who happens to be in an ophthalmology department solely because I once did basic research into eye disorders. Indeed, for much of my career as a scientist, I had pretty much no views on vaccines at all, apart from what I had learned as an undergraduate and graduate student that vaccines were uniformly safe and effective. This was all it seemed that I needed to know for many years. That view did not change until about 2005.

That was the year when a graduate student in my laboratory and I decided to seek another cluster of Lou Gehrigs disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS). In brief, my laboratory had been studying the cluster of ALS on Guam and decided that, to find more clues to this disorder, we had to broaden our search. To do so, we sought another cluster that might serve to diminish the number of potential causes of the disease.