No kidding. Vaccines are at the core of medical, scientific history. Along with germ theory and antibiotics they mark a major revolution forward keeping people alive.
Trying to make the argument that vaccines are a cult is entirely ridiculous on the face of it. If it wasn't for these early scientists who worked hard to discover cures and preventions for diseases people would still be dying from these basic diseases.
FYI Major Milestones in Vaccine History
- The world's first successful vaccine was developed in 1796 by the English physician Edward Jenner to protect against smallpox. Jenner famously noticed that dairymaids who caught cowpox (a mild virus) never caught the deadly smallpox virus. To test this, he scraped matter from a milkmaid's cowpox sore and inoculated a young boy. When later exposed to smallpox, the boy remained completely healthy, proving the concept of immunity.
- 1881–1885: Louis Pasteur develops the first lab-created, live-attenuated vaccines for anthrax and rabies.
- 1896: Scientists create the first inactivated vaccines to protect against bacterial threats like typhoid and cholera.
- 1948: The DTP vaccine combines shots for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis into a single routine childhood immunization.
- 1954: Jonas Salk and his team develop the first killed-virus vaccine to successfully combat polio.
- 1980: The World Health Organization officially declares smallpox completely eradicated worldwide.
- 2020: The rapid deployment of mRNA technology leads to the first approved vaccine for COVID-19.
I find the conspiracy attempts to redefine this rich history with false science to be patently pathetic, and is ultimately dangerous. All conspiracies have their own cult followers and preachers, from Pizzagate to the Heaven's Gate cult. Make no mistake about it, these false beliefs systems are ultimately lethal. Getting your dose of reality from Facebook or Alex Jones is just not healthy.