Aaron Siri stands up for the unvaccinated

Aaron Siri stands up for the unvaccinated

"The way the media and the medical profession talks about people that don't vaccinate—throw them out of school, kick them out of their jobs...They're not to be lectured by anybody about civility...That is the height of absurdity."

This is Siri (
@AaronSiriSG
), the managing partner of the national law firm Siri & Glimstad, responding to Dr. Jake Scott (
@jakescottMD
), an infectious disease doctor and Clinical Associate Professor at the Stanford Department of Medicine, saying that it's not OK for people to come after pro-"vaccine" doctors in an uncivilized way.

Critically, Siri adds another point in defense of the unvaccinated: "If vaccines are so safe, why are they the only consumer product where you cannot sue the manufacturer for injuries...?"

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"Can I respond to the point of civility? There is nobody out there that you can talk about the way that the media and the medical profession talks about people that don't vaccinate. Throw them out of school, kick them out of their jobs. The way that those folks are treated. They're not to be lectured by anybody about civility. That is the height of absurdity. Absurdity. I mean, truly absurdity. It's an insult on top of injury. That's what it is.

"Senator, you know, our firm has the largest practice in the country that represents children that need medical exemption. I will tell you, I've never. We don't have a single client who is immunocom state. Their neutrophil levels are such that they're only susceptible to disease that could really injure them. For the few that we vaccinated, but not the other 1,400 known pathogens, it doesn't exist. It's a myth, basically. But it's a way to bludgeon again, the kids whose parents typically don't need these vaccines.

"Can I just say one thing about the autism bit? Just because it's been bandied about, we sued the CDC for the studies. The support that the vaccines given in the first month of life do not cause autism. We sued them because they wouldn't give it to us.

"We said, give us the studies to show the meningococcal vaccine, the polio vaccine, the Hep B vaccine, the Hib vaccine and the Hep B vaccine. Those five vaccines don't cause autism. You know what? They provided none. We sued them in federal court. They ended up in stipulated order. They gave us 20 studies. Not one of them has to do with those vaccines. They're all MMR or they're all thimerosal.

"This notion that there's a mountain of studies out there that show vaccines with autism is ridiculous. And I've heard the measles death in Texas bandied about. We represent one of those families. We've seen the medical records. One of those kids, I can tell you for certain, did not die from measles. He died from hospital malfeasance. That's what he died from. He wasn't even having measles when he died. And we'll be putting out a report on that.

"And somebody else has reviewed the medical records of a second kid. I agree we shouldn't engage in fear mongering. And if we were talking about the overview of the scientific literature instead of randomly looking at studies, maybe start with the Institute of Medicine reviews of the entire body of literature from 1991, '94, 2012, the HRQ reports, and you could see how vacuous vaccine safety science is.

"I'll leave with one last point. Look, if vaccines are so safe, why are they the only consumer product where you cannot sue the manufacturer for injuries to claim it was made safer? It's been 30, it's been 1980. It's been over 30 years. They're telling you Hep B's safe, Hib's safe. These are safe. You still need immunity. Okay, let me tell you my definition of vaccine, Senator. It's a product that causes so much injury that it has to have liability for the injuries that it's causing immunity for the injuries that it's causing. That's what a vaccine is."