I can think of no other word to more accurately describe the mindless reverence bestowed upon one particular pharmaceutical product than ‘religion’. ‘Cult’ works as well. The fervor, the superstitious awe, the virulent desire to censor critics and forcibly convert the masses smacks of vulgar fundamentalism, and should be plainly stated. Despite the evidence that vaccines did not save the human race from infectious disease (clean water, clean food, proper nutrition, and good plumbing did that), the evidence that any immunity derived from vaccination wears off within five years, that the toxic load of aluminum injected into infants could, ironically, be causing irreversible damage to their immune systems, these people blindly, and militantly, promote vaccines as some God-given panacea. But vaccines are pharmaceutical products, produced, marketed, and sold by pharmaceutical corporations. The same corporations that have sordid histories of corruption, fraud, and criminality. We are welcome to question all manner of pharmaceutical products, but when that product resides within a syringe, the acolytes of the vaccine religion descend, quickly attempting to stamp out the fire of criticism before it spreads. How this is any different than any other deranged, totalitarian dogma from history?
