**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The Studies the CDC Refuses to Do**This book is based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each study is analyzed, and health differences among infants, children, and adults who have been vaccinated and those who have not are presented and put in context. Readers will find information on:The infant/child vaccination scheduleThimerosal...

The standard history of vaccines presents a linear narrative of scientific progress: from Edward Jenner’s cowpox experiment through germ theory’s triumph over infectious disease. The actual history proves far more complex.The History of Vaccination: Separating Fact from Fiction examines vaccination’s development from eighteenth-century smallpox inoculation through the 1940s consolidation of medical authority. Drawing on primary sources, parliamentary records, and contempor...

Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease cesspools to much safer, healthier habitats. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty, filth, lost cures, eugenicist doctrine, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and...