He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the present controls the past.
—George Orwell
Smallpox killed millions of people. The smallpox vaccine eradicated smallpox. Therefore, all vaccines eradicate disease, as well. Not vaccinating will result in disease epidemics, including a resurgence of smallpox. Those who question these facts are science deniers and they are to be blamed for any and all disease outbreaks.
Most vaccine believers believe the preceding paragraph with the same devotion that doctors once believed that their filthy hands had nothing to do with the spread of disease and the death of their pregnant and newborn patients. Such beliefs do not originate out of thin air, nor do they originate from science, unless one includes the science of agnotology: the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt. Vaccine sociopaths spawned and fed public ignorance with the nonsense that the smallpox vaccine eradicated smallpox and the polio vaccine will soon do the same for polio.
As if to affirm their place as orthodox members in the Vaccine religion, researchers, scientists, doctors, and politicians frequently preface vaccine-related communications by bearing testimony to these false narratives.
If vaccines eradicated smallpox or polio, one would expect to find a general consensus in the records from those fortunate enough to have witnessed these miracles. Such is not the case. From the 1700s onward, numerous educated people from around the world bore witness to the fact that the smallpox vaccine resulted in an increase in both severity and prevalence of smallpox outbreaks. Frederick Cartwright commented on that point in his 1972 book, Disease and History:
. . . [I]t has been reckoned that two or three persons died out of every hundred inoculated. Further, many people rightly suspected that inoculation, even though it might protect the individual by a mild attack, spread the disease more widely by multiplying the foci of infection. For these reasons inoculation fell into general disrepute in Europe after 1728.1
In 1764, The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle published an article titled “The Practice of Inoculation Truly Stated.”2
The title suggests that a 1700s version of the vaccine paradigm had been instituted to decrease public resistance against a vaccine derived from the lymph of “a smallpox corpse, the ulcerated udder of a cow, . . . the running sores of a sick horse’s heels, . . . rabbit-pox, ass-pox, or mule-pox.”3
The “truly stated” article decimated the smallpox vaccine paradigm as seen in the following paragraph:
It does not follow Inoculation is a practice favourable to life. . . . It is incontestably like the plague a contagious disease, what tends to stop the progress of the infection tends to lessen the danger that attends it; what tends to spread the contagion, tends to increase that danger, the practice of Inoculation manifestly tends to spread the contagion, for a contagious disease is produced by Inoculation where it would not otherwise have been produced; the place where it is thus produced becomes a center of contagion, whence it spreads not less fatally or widely than it would spread from a center where the disease should happen in a natural way; these centers of contagion are manifestly multiplied very greatly by Inoculation. . . .4
In England, portions of the general population recognized the vaccinators as the cause of the outbreaks as well as the cause of their children’s suffering and death. Out of such suffering was born the anti-vaccination movement. Dr. W.J. Collins, MD, identified himself as an anti-vaccinationist in 1866 when he described his “Twenty Years’ Experience of a Public Vaccinator” in material printed by the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League. Wrote Collins,
I have no faith in vaccination; nay, I look upon it with the greatest possible disgust, and firmly believe that it is often the medium of conveying many filthy and loathsome diseases from one child to another, and no protection whatever against small pox. Indeed, I consider we are now living in the Jennerian epoch for the slaughter of innocents, and the unthinking portion of the adult population.5
The British government was not impressed with the likes of Dr. Collins. Compulsory vaccination became law in 1853, and the provisions were made more stringent in 1867, 1871, and 1874. Several parents chose to be jailed or fined rather than subject themselves or their children to further risk of harm.6
Thus were the circumstances when the borough of Leicester rose up in defiance against the government. No, they declared, they would not comply with medical tyranny. J.T. Biggs, a member of the Leicester Board of Guardians and author of the 1912 book Leicester: Sanitation versus Vaccination, described the battle between science and the “financially-interested,” a battle that is eerily familiar to modern vaccine informed individuals. Said Biggs,
Notwithstanding the innumerable failures of, and the disasters attributable to vaccination, indubitably proven, the language of the professional, financially-interested, and official supporters and apologists, remains now much the same as ever. Like the Bourbons, these strange protagonists appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.7
It is no small irony that modern vaccine profiteers cite smallpox epidemics as justification for today’s burgeoning vaccine schedule, because the people who survived those epidemics cite them as proof that vaccine peddlers and their pustulants caused disease outbreaks far worse than outbreaks caused by natural smallpox. Biggs, a self-avowed anti-vaccinationist, wrote,
The experience of the terrible smallpox epidemic of 1871-73, when many thousands of vaccinated persons contracted the disease, and several hundreds died as the result of the alleged “protection” (!) having lamentably failed in its hour of trial, produced in the minds of the thinking people of Leicester pronounced hostility against the blood-polluting quackery, which was found to be more baneful in its ultimate results than the disease it was supposed to prevent.8
Great tyranny always leads to great change. In Leicester that change was symbolized in what is likely the greatest anti-vaccination demonstration in the history of the world. Biggs described a few of the events leading up to the historic occasion:
All honour to the parents, both men and women, who, rather than submit the health of their children to the risk of the blood poisoners lancet, preferred the prison cell. William Johnson, whose name heads the list, was the first in the Kingdom to be imprisoned under the Vaccination Acts. Also, Henry Matts, the fourth name on the list, suffered the longest term of imprisonment under the old barbarous penal regime—namely, thirty days, being ten days for each of three children. These honours, therefore, belong to Leicester.
Thus was the small flame of resistance fanned by these harsh proceedings into a huge conflagration, which culminated in a demonstration in 1885, when copies of the Vaccination Acts were defiantly burned in public on that never-to-be forgotten occasion! The people of Leicester were thoroughly aroused. They organised what was described as the largest and most impressive demonstration that has ever been witnessed within its boundaries. It took the form of a national outburst against the cruelties attendant upon the enforcement of compulsory vaccination.9
The citizens of Leicester were far from alone in the demonstration. Some forty different anti-vaccination leagues, fifty neighboring towns, and representatives from both Ireland and Scotland gathered on the historic day of March 23, 1885. The Hawera & Normanby Star covered the event with a compelling and descriptive article titled “Anti-Compulsory Vaccination Demonstration at Leicester,” much of which is quoted below:
The borough of Leicester, was on March 23, the scene of an extraordinary demonstration against the Vaccination Acts. The proceedings commenced with a procession. . . . The first detachment wore rosettes, and was made up solely of those who had suffered terms of imprisonment, varying from seven to thirty days, the second of parents who had had their goods seized for vaccination fines, the third of those who had paid conscience fines, the fourth of members of the Board of Guardians who had opposed the enforcement of the Acts, and the fifth of unvaccinated children, on ponies and carriages, with bannerets, [sp] &c. Then followed the delegates from various towns. Then followed detachments of anti-vaccinators . . . . The devices included one of Dr. Jenner suspended from a gibbet, and being repeatedly executed and inscribed “Child Slayer.” Another consisted of a complete “funeral cortege of a victim of vaccination.” a real coffin for a child, covered with wreaths, &c., being placed on a carriage bier, and followed by mourners. . . . The mottoes, on the other hand, included “Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.” “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance,” “They that are whole need not a physician,” “Rachels are weeping all over the world because their children are not,” “The Three Pillars of Vaccination—Fraud, Force, and Folly,” “A Dead Swindle—the Vaccination Death Certificate,” “We no longer beg but demand the control of our children,” “Health without adulteration,” &c. The procession marched through the principal streets and back to the Market Place, where about fifty thousand took part in a demonstration against the Acts. A resolution condemning the Acts as subversive of parental liberty, destructive of personal rights, and tyrannical and unjust, and ought to be resisted by every constitutional means, was adopted with enthusiasm; as was another petitioning for the abolition of the Acts. A copy of the Acts was then publicly burnt amid cheers, and proceedings terminated by the singing of an anti-vaccination song entitled “Cause that is True.”10
After the demonstration, Councillor Butcher, one of the leading representatives of the movement, spoke to a cheering audience. He not only described the failure of the smallpox vaccine; he also described a solution to infectious disease that many educated people now agree accounts for the marked decline in the incidence and the severity of smallpox and every other infectious disease: modern sanitation, clean water, good food, and healthy living quarters. “If such details were attended to, there was no need to fear small pox, or any of its kindred; and if they were neglected, neither vaccination nor any other prescription by Act of Parliament could save them.”11 Following Councillor Butcher’s comments, Mr. W. Stanyon recited the following resolution:
That the Compulsory Vaccination Acts, which make loving and conscientious parents criminals, subjecting them to fines, loss of goods, and imprisonment, propagate disease and inflict death, and under which five thousand of our fellow-townsmen are now being prosecuted, are a disgrace to the Statute Book, and ought to be abolished forthwith.12
J.T. Biggs documented the proceedings of the meeting, which ended in the unanimous passage of the resolution. The speeches offered on that momentous occasion are as timely today as they were when first uttered. They are included below nearly in their entirety:
In supporting the motion, Mr. Tebb remarked: “Schiller says only great questions arouse the profound depths of humanity, and I venture to say that the question which has called us together this evening belongs to that category. The Demonstration which we have witnessed today could only have been aroused by a deep conviction in the justice and righteousness of our cause; and, if I am not mistaken, it will help forward the work of emancipation wherever this odious and indefensible tyranny exists, and will leave a broad mark in the history of our time. . . . When our victory is won, we may rest assured that we shall have shaken the foundations of other tyrannies besides vaccination; for injustice and cruelty are linked together in more ways than one, and in the downfall of this superstition we shall feel that we have become a freer, healthier, and happier people.”
Mr. Alfred Milnes, M.A., also supporting the motion, said: “I can assure you it gives me very great pleasure to come here and take part in this splendid meeting. Not merely because one seems to breathe a purer atmosphere in coming to this, the head-centre of revolt against what I look on as in every aspect a wicked and intolerable law, but chiefly because here in Leicester a man gets rid at once of all the mass of sophistries with which this matter of compulsory vaccination has been overlaid. Here, at last, one comes face to face with the question in its plain, broad issues. . . . We are not met here tonight to ask for any man’s toleration. For my own part, toleration is a word I detest; and I wish that some revised version would give us a reading, Who art thou, to tolerate thy brother? We ask for no man’s toleration, and we plead for no man’s pity; we are met to-night to demand the birthright of free citizens—equality before the law. [Cheers.] . . .
Mr. Enoch Robinson, M.R.C.S., in supporting the motion, said it seemed to him an outrage on common sense that, after all the efforts made to raise the people out of ignorance and superstition, there should be an Act of Parliament to keep their minds down on one point to the level occupied 160 years ago. . . . When the law is repealed we shall witness a marvellous transformation, not only in the disuse of vaccination by the people, but in its repudiation by the intelligence of the medical profession; for many know, as we do, that vaccination, as a defence against small-pox, is one of the grossest superstitions that ever afflicted the human mind. [Cheers.]
The resolution was carried unanimously. . . .
Biggs then described “a conference of delegates” held the following morning “with 70 to 80 individuals representing several towns and more than fifty anti-vaccination leagues.” The body proposed and passed a resolution. The final paragraph follows:
We appeal to our fellow-countrymen and countrywomen everywhere to countenance and aid us in this righteous struggle for the disestablishment and disendowment of a practice which is not only no security against small-pox, but which, as many of us know by bitter experience, poisons the blood of our children, and implants in their constitution the fatal seeds of disease and death, and violates that right of self-control over the person which is one of the ancient rights of the English citizen.13
According to Biggs, 73-year-old Dr. Spencer T. Hall stood following the passage of the resolution and stated that
[h]e had been vaccinated at two years of age, and very seriously injured; but at fourteen he had a severe attack of smallpox, which was followed by improved health. Far rather would he have smallpox than be vaccinated. He had paid fines for all his children. In his long and wide experience he had never seen such evil results from smallpox as he had seen from vaccination.14
If the aged Dr. Hall were wrong about his assessment of the “evil results . . . from vaccination,” his error would have been manifest in ensuing plagues of smallpox falling upon the non-vaccinating citizens of Leicester and the surrounding villages. The vaccine sociopaths of the day were no doubt disappointed that such a scenario never played out. But of course it didn’t because the people of Leicester had learned that resistance to smallpox did not come in a syringe filled with pus and other contaminants; it came from immune systems strengthened by clean water, nutritious food, and healthy environments and from quarantining people with active cases of smallpox.15
Eleanor McBean recounted smallpox related details in the USA and the Philippines in her 1957 book, The Poisoned Needle, saying that “. . . the gradual abandonment of vaccination laws . . .” resulted in a “. . . steady decline of smallpox. . . .” By contrast, compulsory vaccination in the Philippine Islands resulted in a death rate of 74%, the highest in history. McBean concludes:
In spite of these cold facts and thousands of others like them, the promoters of vaccines insist that vaccination has been a blessing to the world and has reduced disease. This all goes to prove the old saying that figures can’t lie but liars can figure.16
More recently, Vernon Coleman, MD, one of Britain’s most prolific modern writers and a former professor of Holistic Medical Sciences at the International Open University in Sri Lanka, presented the indisputable fact that improvements in food, water, and lifestyle eclipse the role vaccines purportedly play in the reduction of infectious disease. The professor noted that smallpox vaccine resulted in so many deaths that the WHO abandoned “[m]ass vaccination programmes” and replaced them with “surveillance, isolation and quarantine.” Coleman’s opinion is unwavering: “The myth that smallpox was eradicated through a mass vaccination programme is just that—a myth.”17
Seconding Coleman’s conviction, pathologist and medical writer Glen Dettman, PhD, states, “It is pathetic and ludicrous to say we ever vanquished smallpox with vaccines, when only 10% of the population was ever vaccinated.”18
If that is the case, then the CDC is made up of “pathetic and ludicrous” people, because they advance the one germ, one vaccine theory of the eradication of smallpox as if it were gospel truth.19 And in doing so, they are building upon more than 100 years of lying about the multiple problems associated with the smallpox vaccine, including the fact that the vaccine often caused the disease it was alleged to protect against. And just as modern doctors sometimes intentionally refuse to acknowledge vaccine injury, their predecessors intentionally doctored medical records by claiming that vaccinated people who succumbed to smallpox were unvaccinated. Dr. Russell of the Glasgow Hospital stated, “Patients entered as unvaccinated showed excellent marks (vaccination scars) when detained for convalescence.”20
Some of these shenanigans became well known outside of the club of medical corruption, as evidenced by George Bernard Shaw’s statement:
During the last epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council. I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the re-vaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not—except smallpox.21
The case for the smallpox vaccine would be stronger if smallpox were the only disease that has disappeared. But history tells a different story. The bubonic plague came and went without the assistance of a vaccine. Scarlet fever was well in decline in the latter part of the 1800s before the scarlet fever toxin vaccine was introduced. Suzanne Humphries, MD, coauthor of the seminal book Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History, explained that the vaccine for scarlet fever was “never widely used because it had severe consequences to many of its recipients.” And yet, even without a vaccine, a “marked decline in scarlet fever death occurred long before any antibiotic was used.”22
In 1999, Dr. Viera Scheibner addressed a letter to The Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources. After presenting evidence that “vaccination is the single biggest cause of SIDS,” Dr. Scheibner informed elected officials that “. . . the largest epidemics occurred in the most highly vaccinated populations . . .” and that “better nutrition” did away with the bubonic plague and also reduced the incidence and severity of smallpox.23
The citizens of Leicester knew from experience that the smallpox vaccine spread smallpox. They also knew that improved public health conditions coupled with isolating contagious people contained the disease and resulted in a stronger, naturally immune population. The modern vaccine establishment dishonors the knowledge and experience the courageous people of Leicester demonstrated as they stood against the vaccine establishment of their day. The establishment can do no different because the story of the smallpox vaccine’s victory over smallpox is not a story of medical science; it’s a legend born and sustained by the “financially interested.”
If the smallpox vaccine were truly safe and effective, it wouldn’t have scarred and killed countless vaccine recipients. Parents wouldn’t have gone to jail to prevent their children from further harm from the vaccine. The vaccine wouldn’t have provided the catalyst for the anti-vaccination movement, nor would it have precipitated the world’s largest anti-vaccine protest. And if the traditional story of the smallpox vaccine were based on truth, vaccine storytellers would have no objection to sharing these unflattering remnants from the past.
If the traditional smallpox narrative is symbolized by a sacred cow, then the history shared in this chapter reveals that the divine bovine worshipped by vaccine believers died long ago, diseased and forgotten in an unmarked grave. And when vaccine sociopaths promulgate the myth of the smallpox vaccine, they dishonor the memory of those who were injured and killed by that vaccine.
The truth is that each vaccine has its own story, its own safety record, its own level of efficacy, its own relative necessity, but vaccine profiteers can’t stomach the truth. In the paradigm they’ve created, there is only one story: disease is bad and vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary. Inasmuch as various diseases have relative risks and benefits and inasmuch as no vaccine is entirely safe or effective, then all vaccines are implicated in the fraudulent paradigm. The question is not if fraud is present in the commercialization of a vaccine; the question, rather, is to what degree fraud is present.
It may be true that the greatest fraud is manifest in the greatest fear campaigns, because great fear generates great profits, not just for one vaccine, but also for the entire vaccine program. If that’s the case, then the greatest vaccine-related fraud might well be associated with the most frightening and most well-known of all vaccine-targeted diseases: polio.