Aaron Siri's book: Vaccines, Amen

Attorney Aaron Siri’s new book forced me to confront beliefs rooted in vaccine orthodoxy that I once held with certainty — and even defended on national television.

For decades, vaccines have been treated as the sacred cow of modern medicine. I was taught they were the holy grail. To question them was heresy. To raise concerns about safety was to risk professional exile.

Aaron Siri makes it clear in Vaccines, Amen: the religion of vaccines that the story we’ve been told about vaccine science rests far more on belief than proof.

“No child should be sacrificed on the altar of the religion of vaccines,” Siri writes, as he turns his focus to America’s over-crowded childhood immunisation schedule.

I assumed little in this book would surprise me. I’ve spent years reporting on drug safety, regulatory capture, and the corruption of science. But Siri showed me how wrong I was.