By James Lyons-Weiler, PhD Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge Herd immunity is a concept by which an infectious agent can no longer spread across a population because a sufficiently large percentage of individuals have immunity, either from a history of exposure to the wild-type of the infectious agent, or due to acquired immunity from […]
“Herd Immunity”? A dishonest marketing gimmick
By J.B. Handley, Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors, Children’s Health Defense As a country and a society, we’ve never been anywhere close to “herd immunity” through vaccination, but where are all the epidemics? That doesn’t keep vaccine makers from using herd immunity as a weapon to guilt and scare parents. Why are we allowing “mythology […]
Natural Measles Immunity—Better Protection and More Long-Term Benefits than Vaccines
By the Children’s Health Defense team Stories about vaccines in the popular press tend to be unabashedly one-sided, generally portraying vaccination as a universal (and essential) “good” with virtually no down side. This unscientific bias is particularly apparent in news reports about measles, which often are little more than hysterical diatribes against the unvaccinated. […]