putting up with stress from the school system, from my mother in law?
I began to research the issue, and I got very confused because I’d read books and articles about how horrible vaccination was, and be convinced that I shouldn’t vaccinate. Then I’d read books and articles of things in the biomedical journals discussing how great vaccines are, and there was no problem with vaccines at all. I didn’t know what to do, so I had to delve much deeper into the research, and as a result, for my edification, started writing brochures and books now, on the issue of vaccination. They became very popular. I was asked to lecture at schools and state associations and various chiropractic organizations. The whole issue of vaccination, I find, is really one of science versus non-science. Vaccination is founded upon junk science, and the recent brouhaha over the movie Vaxxed, which William Thompson, a scientist from the CDC, came forward and said, “Hey, we were lying to you. We buried data.” The real data showed much more autism in vaccinated kids, really brought up the tip of the iceberg. This has been going on for decades. They’ve been burying research. The chiropractic profession has always been the most scientific when it comes to vaccination, because we’re empirical. We what to know what works, and that reminds me. During the [inaudible 00:04:59] trial, when Robert Mendelsohn, the pediatrician, was brought on the stand, the attorney from the other side, the Quack Buster side, or [quackpots 00:05:10], as Mr. Turner likes to say, he came right out attacking Dr. Mendelsohn. He said, “What do you know about chiropractic philosophy?” He said, “I know everything there is to know about chiropractic philosophy,” and he’s a pediatrician. The lawyer said, “Tell us what you know.” He said, “Well, my wife had a severe spinal problem. They wanted to do surgery. The orthopedist wanted her to have surgery. She went to a chiropractor and got better.” The lawyer was totally stuck dumbfounded. He says, “That’s not philosophy. That’s pragmatism.” Mendelsohn answered, “My philosophy is pragmatism,” and he got a good laugh from the man who had helped the chiropractors win the case. It turns out that we are pragmatic. We want to know what works. We want to look at the data, and this is why chiropractors are in the ideal position now of standing up in front of the public and saying, “See? We’ve known it all along. We’ve been trying to teach you. We’ve fought the federal government.” In fact, the Federal Trade Commission went after me specifically for the vaccination brochure and 3 or 4 other brochures on chiropractic. I remember I got a phone call from the lead prosecutor from the FTC. The lead investigator had called me at my home and he said, “Okay, we’re doing this, and we’re going especially against you for vaccination,” because we were among the first. My writings were among the first, and the chiropractic profession, it took a strong stance against vaccinating. He said, “What are you basing all of this on?” I went through all the research and ended it with, “By the way, this last paper I’m citing came from the Congressional Journal.” I remember very specifically, there was silence. Then he said, “Okay, we’ll drop any of our objections to your vaccination
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