Ron Paul tells a great story of the Swine Flu Scare in the 1970’s. He and Larry McDonald, the only two MDs in congress voted against the regulation, because they did not believe government should be involved in telling people what they should do for their health care. It turned out they were right medically as well, Ron said that more people died from the vaccination than from the flu.
While vaccinations have helped in many circumstances, as all fans of Louis Pasteur have heard, they should be left to family and individual discretion, not to a
A Brief History of Government Immunizations
WRITTEN BY ALEX NEWMAN
TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2009 14:45
As the start of the federal government’s most ambitious vaccination program approaches, it is worth taking a second look at the history of similar campaigns in the past. Since most of the media and government health officials constantly laud vaccine successes, this article will dwell more on the stories that are not as widely disseminated.
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