Dr. Suzanne Humphries Dispels the Illusion that Vaccines Eradicated Smallpox

One of the most important books about vaccines that you could read is Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk, for which a 10th anniversary edition has recently been published.

The book dismantles the myth that the disappearance of smallpox, caused by the variola virus, was because of global mass vaccination, which Dr. Humphries also discusses in this video from a talk she gave to an Autism One conference:

I took the time to look up some of the sources she cites in the video so figured I’d add value to the video by sharing those with you.

First, though, let’s quickly dismantle the foundational myth that the decline in infectious disease mortality witnessed during the twentieth century was because of vaccines. In fact, “nearly 90% of the decline in infectious disease mortality among US children occurred before 1940, when few antibiotics or vaccines were available”, as acknowledged in a summary of vital statistics published in the journal Pediatrics in 2000.

This was because of an increasing standard of living, including better nutrition, sanitation, refrigeration, knowledge of personal hygiene, less crowding, etc.

Dissolving Illusions contains many graphs demonstrating this, but I have looked up and graphed some of the data myself. Here is what the data show for measles:

Here is pertussis:

And here is diphtheria:

So now let’s get to some of the sources Humphries cites in the video.

First, there is the record of the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from June 19 – 20, 2002.

Among the members at the time was Dr. Paul Offit, who now serves on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee responsible for having recommended authorization or approval of the mRNA COVID‑19 vaccines. While a member of the CDC’s advisory committee, he advocated the rotavirus vaccine while developing Merck’s rotavirus vaccine, as I noted in my recent special report “How You Are Being Lied to about the Risks of DNA Contamination in COVID-19 Vaccines“.

The meeting record related the research of Dr. Thomas Mack of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, who had spent 40 years studying smallpox outbreaks. It notes that “susceptible populations” were those with a “lower standard of living”.

“Even in the absence of a smallpox eradication program,” the document states, “Dr. Mack suspected that the disease would have died out anyway, just over a longer period.”

Dr. Humphries’ book makes a strong argument that it would have died out anyway despite the mass vaccination, but this is an important acknowledgment from a top expert that smallpox would have disappeared without the vaccine.

“Dr. Mack stated his belief that endemic smallpox will never return”, the document further states. “It disappeared from the U.S., Europe and other developed countries due to economic development.” (Emphasis added.)

While Mack credited the vaccine with helping to eradicate the variola virus, he noted that what ultimately “led to control and eradication were the ability to identify cases” and “the relatively slow movement of the disease”, which he explained was neither easily spread by airborne particles nor by people showing no symptoms.

The World Health Organization (WHO) “noted in 1966 that the mass vaccination policies of the 1950s were not optimal”, and its “policy changed in 1938 to surveillance and containment, a policy change that was supported by experience.”

Indeed, Humphries documents that, too, in Dissolving Illusions, highlighting the case study of Leicester, England (pronounced “Lester”), where the residents rebelled against mandatory mass vaccination and had greater success with surveillance and containment.

While the CDC document doesn’t mention the case of Leicester, it does admit that “accumulating evidence suggested that surveillance and containment were still more effective than mass vaccination.”

Humphries also talks about how the mainstream narrative is that the anti-vaccination movement at the time was basically opposed to science and progress, much like “anti-vaxxers” are ridiculously characterized today, but in fact parents opposing smallpox vaccination back then were right that the vaccine was dangerous.

The CDC document noted that this was especially true for people with immune dysfunction, how people with immune disorders, eczema, or atopic dermatitis would be at high risk from the vaccine, and how a “larger population is susceptible today than in the past” — which is a remarkable testimony to how coerced mass vaccination has not produced a healthier population.

The impetus for the meeting to discuss smallpox was the fear of a terrorist attack following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the anthrax mailings, which the government and media tried to blame Iraq for, but which actually used anthrax originating from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, as I detailed in my 2006 article “Iraq’s Anthrax and the Myth of ‘Intelligence Failure’“.

(I reviewed that case and detailed numerous additional lies told by the US government and mainstream media to manufacture consent for the illegal war on Iraq in my 2012 article “The Lies that Led to the Iraq War and the Persistent Myth of ‘Intelligence Failure’“)

The fearmongering claim was that there could be a biological warfare attack using smallpox, so the George W. Bush administration rolled out a plan recommended by his “top health advisers” to vaccinate millions of Americans.

In this context, Humphries cites a Washington Post article from December 2002 titled “Smallpox Vaccine Reactions Jolt Experts“, describing the alarming adverse events experienced by people who began receiving the vaccine as part of a government study.

Undoubtedly among Bush’s “top health advisers” was Dr. Anthony Fauci, the long-time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who is quoted in the article acknowledging that it is true that the smallpox vaccine caused a lot of dreadful side effects, including brain inflammation and one or two deaths for every million people vaccinated.

“The reactions we are seeing are totally out of line with today’s vaccine experience and absolutely in line with historical experience,” Fauci was quoted as saying at the time. “In the 30 years since we had routine vaccination, the public’s tolerance has gone way down.”

He meant people’s tolerance for accepting harms from vaccines, of course.

The CDC meeting record notes that for the general public, according to Dr. Mack, “the necessary informed consent will have to state that the risks exceed the benefits.”

Humphries also cites a New York Times article from December 2002 by editor Michael Pollak titled “A Distant, Troubling Echo From an Earlier Smallpox War“, in which he related his own experience getting the smallpox at the age of six months in 1947, developing encephalitis (brain inflammation), and suffering from chronic tics for the rest of his life.

As Pollak noted, “We will never know the collateral damage from the 1947 program.”

Of course, as noted in the CDC document, the mass smallpox vaccination program was rolled out back then in the “absence of controlled clinical trials”.

Humphries also cites an article by Dr. Thomas Mack titled “A Different View of Smallpox and Vaccination“, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2003. Mack explained that “Smallpox was eradicated because its chain of transmission is inherently vulnerable. … Transmission would not be expected to occur over more than very short distances. … Smallpox was not as infectious as its reputation would suggest.”

Demonstrating his point about how smallpox would have been eradicated without the global mass vaccination campaign, Mack stated,

Disappearance was facilitated, not impeded, by economic development. Long before the World Health Organization’s Smallpox Eradication Program began, and despite low herd immunity, unsophisticated public health facilities, and repeated introductions, smallpox disappeared from many countries as they developed economically, among them Thailand, Egypt, Mexico, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Iraq. The largest and longest outbreak in postwar Europe occurred in Kosovo, in the least developed corner of the continent.

Mack also noted that “vaccinia is a dangerous live vaccine.” (The vaccine did not contain variola but a related virus called vaccinia.) Even if there were a biological warfare attack reintroducing smallpox in the US, “mass vaccination would do more harm than good.”

Another article by Dr. Mack cited by Humphries is titled “The ghost of pandemics past“, published in The Lancet in April 2005. In it, he related how politicians had convened “a table-top exercise designed to illustrate the international scope of bioterrorism”, which focused on a hypothetical release of smallpox. Naturally, issues related to “the manufacture and distribution of massive amounts of smallpox vaccine dominated the discussion”.

Mack proceeded to highlight three false premises underlying the exercise and media reporting about it:

Three false lessons were conveyed to readers of the ensuing press release, and doubtless to the lay participants: a smallpox pandemic is likely; ordinary methods of public health cannot control person-to-person infections; and vaccine stores are the key to control. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock!

He went on to note that it was the “strategy of surveillance for cases and isolation of contacts that had eradicated smallpox” decades earlier.

It’s worth watching Humphries’ full talk for more information, and here are some related articles of mine plus a few book recommendations to learn more about how you are being lied to about vaccines:

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