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Why Have Vaccines Become a Religion? How vaccines became the holy water of Western civilization. By A Midwestern Doctor (11/16/25)
A Midwestern Doctor (AMD) wrote a long article about the religion of vaccines, drawing from many sources including Aaron Siri’s book “Vaccines: Amen” (amazon.com/Vaccines-Ame…).
We’ve presented some highlights, along with the usual Grok ai summary for those who want a quick overview. We encourage you to read the article, watch the accompanying videos, and check out the images AMD provides for a full picture.
A Midwestern Doctor Quotes
Introduction
As more and more people are awakening to the dangers of vaccines, they are gradually discovering a problem vaccine safety advocates have had to deal with for decades—talking to vaccine zealots is like speaking to a brick wall and regardless of the evidence you put forward, you can’t reach them (sometimes seeming as though you are speaking to a religious fanatic who is unwilling to even consider the “blasphemy you are spewing forth”).
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Conclusion (edited slightly)
Ultimately, there are always two ways you can sell a product to someone.
The more commonly used option is by telling them to buy it, then using the social pressure and propaganda to pressure them into going along with the crowd…
The other is to provide them with the data that will allow them to rationally decide it makes sense to adopt your position.
I have always advocated for the latter… and have long sought out the self-directed members of the population who made an effort to see things for what they were rather than what they’d been told to see.
Contents
Why Do People Believe in Vaccines?
The Religion of Medicine
Vaccines Amen
The Absence of Evidence is Not the Evidence of Absence
Burying Evidence
Fake “Placebos”
Vaccine “Placebos”
Regulatory Capture
Shattering Illusions
Conclusion
Summary (Grok ai, edited; images from article)
Vaccines have become a dogmatic belief system akin to religion in modern society, with historical, psychological, and institutional factors reinforcing unquestioning faith in them despite evidence of harms.
Vaccine Zealotry and Medical Pushback Dr. Suzanne Humphries observed kidney failure in patients after flu shots in 2009 and faced resistance when delaying vaccinations.
Hospital staff applied different standards to vaccines compared to other drugs.
An oncologist described the situation as "medical religion."
Humphries' brief to administration was ignored, leading to scrutiny of her from a quality organization.
Prior to Obamacare's flu shot mandates, many doctors avoided vaccinating due to risks, but mandates shifted views.
Reasons for Belief in Vaccines
Market monopolization by the American Medical Association and profitable medical industry created prestige for doctors.
Medicine's mythology credits vaccines for ending infectious diseases, requiring defense of vaccines to maintain status.
Dunning-Kruger effect leads to overestimation of one’s knowledge in medicine.
Cognitive dissonance prevents acknowledgment of harms from vaccines that medical professionals adminstered.
Science replaced traditional religion, becoming dogmatic "scientism," with vaccines as a core tenet.
Medicine as Religion Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn's 1979 book Confessions of a Medical Heretic describes medicine as a religion prioritizing authority over evidence. Points include:
Unwritten rules such as rushing new drugs without full side effect knowledge.
Harmful routine practices persisting due to dogma.
Withholding information from patients to enforce trust.
Attacking dissenters as heretics.
Parallels: Doctors as priests, hospitals as temples, vaccines as holy water for initiation.
Mendelsohn influenced shifts toward patient involvement, but issues persist, as seen in COVID-19 responses.
Vaccines as Religious Ritual Tucker Carlson and Cheryl Hines discussed vaccination as a religious ritual.
A 1932-1933 Detroit mural deifies vaccination (see image below).
Aaron Siri's book Vaccines Amen highlights:
Trusted authorities' unsupported statements copied dogmatically.
Inconsistent evidence acceptance to defend vaccine safety.
Layered assumptions concealing harms in safety research.
Absence of Evidence on Vaccine Safety
No placebo-controlled trials exist for vaccines due to “ethical claims” that would prevent denying "lifesaving" vaccines.
Uncontrolled studies showing harms are dismissed.
Large datasets are withheld from public.
Independent studies are retracted, investigators targeted.
Dr. Marzus Zervos of Henry Ford Health System refused to publish an authoritative study showing vaccine dangers (see website for movie “An Inconvenient Study” for details and the study: aninconvenientstudy.com)
Evidence-Based Medicine Misinterpretations Original 1996 “Evidence-Based Medicine” definition integrates clinical expertise with best available evidence, respecting patient preferences. Later, this was misinterpreted to require costly RCTs, allowing industry monopoly.
Observational studies on vaccinated vs. unvaccinated should guide practice until better trials exist.
Burying Evidence in Trials
Trials monitor short periods, hiding long-term effects.
Placebos often contain harmful adjuvants or other vaccines, normalizing high injury rates. Examples:
HPV vaccine trials used aluminum adjuvant placebo.
Prevnar 7 tested against experimental vaccine.
Tactics include unblinding, ignoring unexpected reactions, reclassifying injuries, investigator discretion on relatedness.
Regulatory Capture and Oversight Failures
1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act removed liability, assigning oversight to HHS, but provisions were not implemented.
CDC is paralyzed on autism links due to liability fears.
Emails show industry influence on policy.
Reports scrubbed of negative data.
Post-marketing surveillance dismisses harm signals.
Cover-ups prioritized over changes, as in UNICEF/CDC vaccine program and Scotland's COVID data.
Shattering Vaccine Illusions
Contradictory positions stem from a priori assumption of safety; that is, assumptions based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.
COVID vaccines marketed as vaccines to leverage trust, but injuries eroded faith.
Public now questions mandates, data withholding, and lack of placebo trials.
Leaked Institute of Medicine (IOM) records show panels instructed against finding harms.
ED NOTE See Gavin de Becker’s excellent book “Forbidden Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage from Childhood Vaccines” for an excellent takedown discussion of IOM: a.co/d/0vDhwFc
Cultural Shift COVID vaccine injuries broke trust in vaccines. Alternative media now displaces mass media, covering vaccine harms. Support for independent authors and safety advocates grows.
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