Perhaps you were fortunate enough to attend the 2016 Weston A. Price Foundation conference in Alabama where my colleague Laura Hayes gave a presentation. Hayes is an anti-vaccine activist whose twenty-four-year-old son was severely injured by his “routine” childhood vaccinations during his infancy, toddlerhood and early childhood. Hayes began her presentation, “Vaccines: What Is There to Be ‘Pro’ About?” by defining the hallmark of ethical medicine: prior, completely voluntary and fully informed consent. She explained how vaccine mandates, with or without exemptions, violate this hallmark of ethical medicine, which is included in numerous international codes of ethics, all signed by the U.S.

Hayes also spoke about the complete absence of appropriate and properly performed vaccine safety studies. Despite this absence, the U.S. Food and Drug Association (FDA) has wrongly approved scores of vaccines over the course of many decades now, and the Centers for Disease Control and…