A Midwestern Doctor just published a powerful, deeply researched piece titled "Why Have Vaccines Become a Religion?" that explains exactly why rational discussion about vaccines has become nearly impossible.
The article opens with nephrologist Dr. Suzanne Humphries noticing in 2009 that flu shots were triggering kidney failure in her hospitalized patients.
When she asked to delay vaccination until patients were stable, hospital leadership refused, citing the "medical religion" of vaccination and the fact that major organizations endorsed universal flu shots under Obamacare penalties.
Before mandates, many nurses openly protested the flu vaccine; after mandates, almost all complied and began defending it zealously.
The author identifies three primary reasons physicians cling to vaccine dogma despite contradictory evidence:
1. The prestige myth of modern medicine. The AMA created a monopoly, technological interventions became highly profitable, and the public was taught that vaccines (along with antibiotics) eradicated infectious disease. Books like Dissolving Illusions demonstrate that mortality from most diseases had already fallen 90-99% before vaccines arrived, thanks to sanitation and nutrition.
2. Psychological factors. Many doctors receive minimal vaccine training yet suffer from extreme overconfidence (Dunning-Kruger). Admitting vaccines can harm would create unbearable cognitive dissonance and threaten their careers, so they double down.
3. Societal shift toward scientism. As traditional religion has declined, blind faith in "science" and public health authorities has filled the spiritual void. Vaccination has become a modern ritual and sacrament.
The piece draws heavily from Robert Mendelsohn's 1979 book Confessions of a Medical Heretic, which compared medicine to organized religion: white coats as priestly robes, stethoscopes as talismans, prescriptions as communion wafers, surgery as sacrifice, and vaccination as baptism with "holy water" that cleanses original sin (susceptibility to disease).
The system demands that doctors "do something" even when intervention causes harm, leading to exploding rates of chronic illness.
Aaron Siri's new book Vaccines Amen is highlighted for showing how the vaccine program operates exactly like a religion: authority figures (Offit, Plotkin) function as high priests, contradictions are ignored when they favor the faith, and absence of evidence is treated as evidence of perfection.
True placebo-controlled trials are considered unethical, so no proper long-term safety studies exist for the childhood schedule.
When independent pediatricians like Paul Thomas compared health outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated children and found dramatically better results in the unvaccinated, they lost their licenses before the data could be published.
Journals are heavily biased, regulatory agencies are captured (the 1986 Act removed liability and key safety provisions were never implemented despite Siri winning lawsuits proving it), and post-marketing surveillance is essentially nonexistent.
Clinical trials use tricks such as short monitoring periods, active placebos containing adjuvants, chaining new vaccines to older ones with known high injury rates, unblinding, and subjective reclassification of serious adverse events to make products appear safe.
The result is a system that assumes safety first and suppresses any evidence to the contrary. Benefits are exaggerated, risks are massive yet hidden, and questioning the program is treated as heresy. The COVID mRNA rollout exposed these patterns to millions who previously trusted the system unquestioningly.
The author concludes that the vaccine program has survived not because of overwhelming evidence, but because it functions as society's new religion, complete with dogma, rituals, priesthood, and excommunication of heretics.
As censorship fades and uncensored data spreads, that faith is finally cracking.
