Catherine Pakaluk
He claimed that if a man was called a “scientist” during his lifetime, and an “honored” one at that, it was the end of him as a doctor. The honor and glory of it all would get in the way of his treatment of his patients just as elaborate clothing hinders a man’s movements.

These “honored scientists” went about with a suite of followers, like some new Christ with his Apostles. They completely lost the right to make mistakes or not to know something, they lost the right to be allowed to think things over. The man might be self-satisfied, half-witted, behind the times, and trying to conceal the fact, and yet everyone would expect miracles from him.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

Introduction: Ground Shift

It only takes one. Call it a red pill or a white pill, but hardly anything shifts the ground of trust in public health and medical science more than discovering that just one childhood vaccine has been added to the schedule without a reasonable evaluation of risks and benefits. The case of Bill Ackman, billionaire founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, illustrates the point. On June 20, 2024, Ackman posted on X about the Hepatitis B vaccine:

When my last child was born, on the first day of her life we were told that she needed a HepB vaccine. It was not presented as a choice and I foolishly did nothing to stop the nurse. My older three daughters did not receive the vaccine at birth.

Those that question the growing, now 72-shot regimen for children are considered by some to be wackos and anti-vaxxers.

I think the skepticism is appropriate and prudent as we are obligated as parents to make sure that we are not causing harm to our children who are not capable of providing informed consent.REF

Ackman continues to hammer away at the importance of skepticism in the face of apparent dereliction by the U.S.  » Read More
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/restoring-the-balance-between-childrens-interests-and-public-health