Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brian Hooker, PhD

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Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brian Hooker, PhD
Skyhorse Publishing

Vax-Unvax, published by Skyhorse Publish­ing under the Children’s Health Defense imprint, represents Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s and Dr. Brian Hooker’s effort to pull together in a single volume over one hundred “mostly unintended” vax-unvax studies reported in the peer-reviewed literature. Officials tell the public that such stud­ies don’t exist, but as Kennedy and Hooker point out, important comparisons between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups have sometimes been “nested” within broader research. Kennedy has been posting effective slides summarizing this information on the CHD website since mid- 2019 (childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/ uploads/Vaxxed-Unvaxxed-Parts-I-XII.pdf), and those slides are now the stars of this book. In this instance, in fact, Kennedy—an avid lifelong reader—tells people that with this book they can learn what they need to know by “just looking at the pictures.”

Pharmaceutical companies and public health officials want you to believe that vaccine injuries are “one in a million”—so rare that we shouldn’t create unnecessary fear by shedding light on their occurrence. However, the famous Lazarus study from 2010, “Electronic Support for Public Health—Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System” contradicted the “one in a million” narrative over a decade ago, identifying adverse reactions for one in every thirty-eight vaccine doses administered (2.6 percent) and noting that fewer than 1 percent of adverse events are ever reported. These unfavorable outcomes prompted the Department of Health and Human Services (the study’s funder) to pull the plug on the initiative.

The first chapter poses the question of why public health officials have never sponsored rigorous studies comparing vaccinated-unvac­cinated outcomes such as autism. Kennedy and Hooker quote the response of vaccine inventor and front man Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Responding that “It is highly unethical to do a study like that,” Offit claimed that would-be participants in the unvaccinated group would be “frankly condemned. . . to develop diseases which can permanently harm them and/or kill them.” As Kennedy and Hooker comment, “The fact that vaccine proponents apply this flawed rationale to vaccines alone and not other medicine suggests an agenda not rooted in science or logic.”

In a chapter on health outcomes associated with the childhood vaccine schedule, several charts summarize the results of a pilot study that compared the health of vaccinated and unvacci­nated six- to twelve-year-olds. The study showed a horrifically increased risk of conditions such as allergic rhinitis, allergy, ADHD, autism, eczema, learning disabilities, and neurodevelopmental disorders among vaccinated children, as well as higher rates of pneumonia and ear infec­tions. Another study confirmed that vaccinated kids face a greater odds of developing asthma, severe allergies, ear infections, gastrointestinal disorders and developmental delays. A third study, which documented illness episodes over the first five years of life, found that vaccinated children experienced more sickness (very high fever, ear and throat infections, convulsions), more “aggressive behavior events” and more hospital admissions and antibiotic use. Shock­ingly, these studies indicate that post-vaccination ailments follow children through life and show a dose-response relationship—the more vaccines someone receives, the more health problems they are likely to develop.

In Chapter Four, the authors discuss the “CDC Secret Data”—the CDC’s never-published finding that boys, and especially African- American boys, had a much greater odds of an autism diagnosis following MMR vaccination administered prior to thirty-six months of age (2.4 times greater in the African-American group), compared to boys who got the MMR after age three. Instead of publishing these data, the CDC hid the statistically significant find­ing by removing some African American boys from the study. Other charts in the same chapter show more inflammatory bowel issues (such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis) in measles vaccine recipients, as well as an increased incidence of type 1 diabetes among those fully vaccinated against polio.

Vax-Unvax does not limit its focus to childhood vaccines, but also includes chapters such as “Vaccines and Gulf War Illness” and “Vac­cines in Pregnancy,” as well as an alarming chapter on the Covid shots (featuring numerous charts on cardiac adverse events).

The studies included in Vax-Unvax clearly demonstrate that vaccines cause damage, and we must be grateful to Kennedy and Hooker for unit­ing them all in one place. What a contribution! This book would make the perfect gift for a mother-in-law (or a daughter-in-law) who doesn’t understand vaccine risks. Even though it refers to a lot of statistics, it’s easy to read and understand. It should also be on the shelf of every health care practitioner, ready to hand out to people in need. Thumbs up!

This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Winter 2023

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