We have to talk about epistemic violence. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the question — How do we know if something is true? It turns out that it's really difficult to answer that question.

In our society we've come up with a cognitive shortcut so that we don't have to think about this question too much. We have a vast system of education, supposed merit, and elite institutions where we award degrees, fancy titles, and responsibility to people who have spent a lot of time studying various subjects. Historically, we generally regarded what they said as "true" for the purposes of law and policy. Everyone was taught to stay in their lane and defer to the people with the most experience in a particular field.

However, when institutions get captured, this system becomes monstrous, and that's what happened across most disciplines since World War I. The level of capture appears to be the worst in the field of vaccinology which violates nearly all of the norms of science.

So obviously, repeatedly injecting toxic substances into children is an extreme form of physical and moral violence. But that system is held in place by epistemic violence. The pharmaceutical industry got the elite gatekeepers to say that double blind randomized controlled trials are unethical and that the first-hand experiences of millions of mothers and fathers were invalid. Independent studies are vilified and any findings that contradict the established narrative are censored and the authors are blacklisted no matter how robust the research. That's epistemic violence and epistemic injustice — the Vaccinators are not only doing violence to people (particularly children), but they are doing violence to the process of knowledge production itself.