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Anti-vaccinationists past and present

The British Vaccination Act of 1840 was the first incursion of the state, in the name of public health, into traditional civil liberties. The activities of today's propagandists against immunisations are directly descended from, indeed little changed from, those of the anti-vaccinationists of the late nineteenth century, say Robert Wolfe and Lisa Sharp

Much attention has been given on the internet to the “anti-vaccination” movement—using vaccination in its wider sense of “any immunisation”—and its possible harmful effects on uptake rates of immunisations. Many observers believe that the movement is something new and a consequence of concerns arising from the large number of immunisations now given, but concern over vaccination began shortly after the introduction of smallpox vaccination and has continued unabated ever since. Methods of disseminating information have changed since the 19th century, but the concerns and activities of anti-vaccination movements in the United Kingdom and their counterparts in the United States have changed little since then. The historian Martin Kaufman, writing about anti-vaccination movements in 19th and early 20th century America, concluded his paper with this comment, “With the improvements in medical practice and the popular acceptance of the state and federal governments' role in public health, the anti-vaccinationists slowly faded from view, and the movement collapsed.”1 We hope that a brief historical examination of anti-vaccination sentiments will give medical professionals a better sense of perspective about the groups opposing immunisations and their arguments.

North America

Anti-vaccination activity also increased in the United States towards the end of the 19th century; widespread vaccination in the early part the century had contained smallpox outbreaks, and vaccination fell into disuse. However, in the 1870s the disease became epidemic owing to the susceptibility of the population. As states attempted to enforce existing vaccination laws or pass new ones, vigorous anti-vaccination movements arose. In 1879, after a visit to New York by William Tebb, the leading British anti-vaccinationist, the Anti-Vaccination Society of America was founded. Subsequently, the New England Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League was formed in 1882 and the Anti-Vaccination League of New York City in 1885. Using pamphlets, court battles, and vigorous fights on the floors of state legislatures, the anti-vaccinationists succeeded in repealing compulsory vaccination laws in California, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. A continual battle was waged between public health authorities and anti-vaccinationists, with the anti-vaccinationists battling vaccination in the courts and instigating riots in Montreal and Milwaukee.1

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1123944/

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The link between vaccines and autism can no longer be avoided

By Rhoda Wilson on April 22, 2025

Research suggests that the rise in autism cases may be linked to vaccines, with a new CDC report showing a 16% rise in autism cases in two years, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigating the potential connection.

As Jeffrey Tucker writes, the vaccine industry’s power and influence have allowed it to avoid scrutiny, but with growing public scepticism and investigations underway, the topic of vaccine harms and their potential link to autism can no longer be avoided.

Vaccines, Autism and Brownstone

By Jeffrey A. Tucker as published by Brownstone Institute on 18 April 2025

It feels almost dangerous putting those three words in the title of an article. An easier path is not to raise the topic. It means getting Brownstone Institute tagged, targeted and cancelled.

That’s how much taboo there is around this subject, which is itself deeply strange. If science is simply a matter of evidence and causal inference, it should be fearless and not doctrinaire. It should go where evidence leads.

At the founding of Brownstone Institute, multiple people worried that this institution would eventually be taken over by “anti-vaxxers.” For my part, I could not understand this fear. I had never heard of such people and could not imagine becoming such a thing.

My views on this topic were as conventional as anyone’s. How could Brownstone be taken over by something of which I had never heard? What is this mysterious power of this dark force out there?

To be sure, I never once believed the covid injection would result in public health benefits, but that is because I read books in Virology 101: a fast-spreading, fast-mutating respiratory infection with a zoonotic reservoir will always outwit any conceivable injection called a vaccine. If such a thing did miraculously come into existence, it would be a decade in the testing.

That was conventional wisdom a few generations ago, but so was the functioning of natural immunity via exposure.

It was research into the history of covid controls that brought a shift toward awareness. It gradually dawned on me, and pretty much everyone associated with Brownstone, that the whole thinking behind lockdowns (and closures, censorship and compliance protocols) was indeed to prepare the public for the injections, the military countermeasures marketed as vaccines, even though they stopped neither infection nor transmission.

If that shocks you, you haven’t been following the mountains of evidence that finally piled up against my long-running assumption that this was just mistaken judgment rooted in epidemiologic fallacy. The apparent goal was maximum uptake through any means possible: social isolation, forced face covering, fear propaganda and finally mandates enforced by penalty of unemployment, professional disgrace and poverty.

In passing, I truly had no excuse not to know this, since this is precisely what I was told by the very man who claims to be the inventor of lockdowns, a person who now runs a vaccine company. He specifically said to me in April 2020 that the whole purpose of the lockdown was to wait for the injection. I didn’t believe him, hung up, and forgot about the call. He was, of course, telling me the whole plan.

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https://expose-news.com/2025/04/22/link-between-vaccines-and-autism/