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July 8, 2025 Community News and Views

Order Your Copy Today! ‘Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality’

In their new book, “Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality,” John Leake and Dr. Peter McCullough tell the story of humanity’s extraordinary veneration of vaccines. The book, published by Children’s Health Defense, is available now for preorder.

In their new book “Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality,” John Leake and Dr. Peter McCullough share the history of humanity’s extraordinary veneration of vaccines, starting with an 18th-century smallpox inoculation procedure called variolation.

The book is set to be released on July 29. Reserve your copy today!

“Vaccines” is the story of man’s ambition to overcome the suffering and death that nature has always inflicted on him. The development of this technology is a monument of human ingenuity, but also of folly, hubris and greed.

Today, the most celebrated vaccine developers are revered for their achievements, while their significant failures are rarely, if ever, mentioned in the literature on vaccines.

On April 29, 2020, as most COVID-panicked governments imposed severe restrictions on personal liberty and commerce, Bill Gates announced on his blog that the world would only return to normal “when almost every person on the planet has been vaccinated against coronavirus.”

Though a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine had not yet been developed, Gates had already decided this theoretical technology was humanity’s only hope.

During the year that followed, the world’s governments acted in lockstep to inject all of humanity with a new generation of experimental mRNA gene therapy shots.

Even after evidence emerged that these so-called “vaccines” did not prevent infection, governments continued to insist that everyone receive them. The injection was portrayed as the savior and liberator of humanity.

Astute observers perceived that the vaccine — and the global movement to get all of humanity to receive it — resembled a proselytizing religion. The gospel of this new religion was that the new shot offered salvation. Those who rejected it were doomed to ostracism, disease and death.

Why this book is unlike any other

Vaccine propagandists often proclaim that they “follow the science,” but most vaccine development has been a matter of guesses, gambles, and wild experimentation. Its key figures have been biased by religious faith, wishful thinking, ideology and a desire for recognition and money.

Though some vaccines deserve credit for reducing infectious disease morbidity and mortality, their contribution to public health in developed nations has been grossly exaggerated.

In many cases, dramatic improvements in nutrition, sanitation and housing were the primary drivers of decreased deaths due to disease.

The authors do not dismiss the concept of vaccination, but seek to promote a more informed and less dogmatic discussion about its risks and benefits. Critical evaluation can only make the technology safer and more effective.

What readers are saying

Naomi Wolf, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author:

“Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake have done the near-impossible: cutting through the noise and contemporary dramas around the issues of vaccines, they have produced a page-turning history and a gripping analysis of vaccines as myth and social ideology. This astute combination of intellectual and medical history, cultural analysis, and hard-hitting medical and scientific exposition could not have been accomplished by any other team.

‘Vaccines’ will change the way you think about medical history, and how the collective mind, shaped by powerful interests, may propagate illusions out of thin air. This is an essential book for navigating our frenzied times with knowledge and insight, and it is one that will outlast us — a beautifully written classic of medical history and the history of ideas.”

Sen. Ron Johnson:

“The appeal of vaccines that can prevent disease and death is obvious. Unfortunately, blind faith in vaccines has replaced critical thinking and robust cost-benefit analysis. Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake provide both as they recount the history of vaccination in their must-read book.”

Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute:

“A sweeping historical investigation that presents objective and competent guidance to the promise, folly, and dangers of vaccines — an industry that clearly needs a reset in light of evidence.”

Robert Clancy, Ph.D., emeritus professor of immunology, University of Newcastle:

“John Leake and Peter McCullough, MD, separate fact from fiction in their telling of the 120-year history of the modern vaccine era. The most recent myth they expose is that new technologies can change the rules of biology — a false proposition that culminated with untested mRNA ‘vaccines,’ whose champions aspired to inject everyone with their new product. ‘Vaccines’ challenges this con that threatens the health of humanity.”

This book will be ready to ship on July 29. Reserve your copy today!

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