You don't hear people say, "I believe in penicillin" or "I trust in antibiotics like gospel." But vaccines? Oh, many people believe in them. With fervour. With ritual. With a zeal that borders on the sacred. "Vaccines save lives," they chant, as if reciting a creed. Dissenters? Heretics. Sceptics? Blasphemers. And the high priests, CDC mandarins, pharma executives, white-coated vaccinologists, dispense absolution from on high, their word infallible, their data shrouded in mystery.

Enter Aaron Siri, the nation's bulldog vaccine injury attorney, whose new book Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines (Skyhorse Publishing, September 2025) doesn't just question this dogma. It exposes it as a full-blown faith system, built on oaths sworn in secret, enforced by federal fiat, and sustained by a power structure that treats informed consent as original sin. Siri, managing partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP, a firm that's deposed global vaccinologists and sued health agencies over a hundred times, didn't set out to write a manifesto. A decade in the trenches of FOIA battles and courtroom cross-examinations did that for him. "There is what medical and health authorities tell the world," he writes, "and then there is what they admit under oath in a lawsuit." Once you crack that divide, the veil lifts. And what lies beneath? A religion where the flock is us, the tithe is our children's arms, and the salvation is a syringe.

Siri's narrative doesn't start in a lab or a boardroom. It starts in a courtroom, or rather, the deliberate absence of one. Chapter by chapter, he traces the "game-changing" US National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 as the original fall from grace. Facing a barrage of lawsuits over the DPT vaccine's side effects, seizures, brain damage, death, pharma lobbied Congress to shield itself. The result? No more civil trials. No more juries weighing evidence. Instead, a no-fault compensation program funded by a tax on vaccines themselves. Victims file claims; "special masters" decide payouts in secret. Pharma? Immune. Doctors? Immune. The government? The new judge of truth.

This wasn't protection from frivolous suits, Siri argues. It was theft of justice. By 2025, the program's paid out over $5 billion, yet denied far more, often on technicalities. Siri's firm has represented families denied recourse, their stories buried under "trade secrets" and redacted reports. "The Act didn't just limit liability," he writes. "It created a monopoly on narrative." Suddenly, vaccines weren't a medical choice. They were a civic sacrament, unquestionable because questioning meant attacking the state.

The Priesthood and Their Relics: Vaccinologists Under Oath

Here's where Siri's insider access shines. He's deposed the demigods: Paul Offit, the "vaccine whisperer" at CHOP; Peter Hotez, Baylor's vaccine evangelist; Stanley Plotkin, the "godfather of vaccines" whose foetal-cell experiments Siri grilled for hours. Under oath, these experts admit what press releases omit. Plotkin, for instance, conceded using tissue from elective abortions in vaccine development, a relic of the 1960s rubella vaccine, still in use today. Offit? He's flip-flopped on aluminium adjuvants, once calling for more safety data, now dismissing concerns as "anti-vax nonsense."

Siri doesn't cherry-pick. He transcribes. In one deposition, a CDC official admits the agency's never tested the full childhood schedule's cumulative effects, 72 doses by age 18, despite mandating it. Another: FDA emails revealing rushed COVID approvals, with internal doubts buried under "public health emergency" waivers. "Vaccinology isn't science," Siri contends. "It's scientism, faith in white coats, with evidence as optional scripture."

The book's core revelation? The "secret world of vaccinology": gain-of-function experiments on viruses, foetal cell lines as "ethical" norms, and a revolving door between regulators and industry. Siri's FOIA hauls, millions of pages, paint a Vatican of vials, where transparency is heresy and doubt is devilry.

The Rituals of Enforcement: Mandates as Modern Inquisition

Post-1986, the faith spread. School mandates ballooned from three vaccines in 1980 to 20+ today. Exemptions? Narrowed in state after state, with Siri's firm fighting, and winning, restorations in places like Montana and Ohio. COVID accelerated the schism: Siri helped block discharges of 10,000+ military personnel over refusal, arguing bodily autonomy as a civil right.

He likens mandates to excommunication: Refuse the jab, lose your job, your school, your travel. The 2021-2023 era? A great vaccination, with media inquisitors branding sceptics as covens of misinformation. Siri's transparency suits forced the FDA to release Pfizer's COVID data early, 55,000 pages a month, revealing adverse events downplayed in headlines. "This isn't public health," he writes. "It's population control, sanctified by science."

The Flock's Lament: Injuries as Unspoken Excommunications

Siri's most haunting chapters come from the pews, the injured. Families whose kids developed autism post-MMR, or seizures after DTaP, only to be gaslit: "Coincidence." The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program? A "kangaroo court," Siri calls it, with claimants facing pro-bono lawyers against phalanxes of federal attorneys. One case: A girl paralysed by a flu shot, denied because her symptoms "didn't match the table." Siri's depositions unearth admissions: Vaccinologists concede rare risks but insist "benefits outweigh," a calculus done without your input.

In a Goodreads review, a vaccine-injured reader calls it "a strange delight" to see Siri's congressional presentations expanded: "Damning FOIA data on FDA, CDC, pharma." Another, from Science, Public Health Policy and the Law: "Thought-provoking... explores vaccines from an overlooked perspective." Critics? They label it "confrontational," a "legal argument, not balanced analysis." Fair. Siri's no neutral scribe. He's a litigator, wielding evidence like a crosier.

The Reformation: Siri's Call to Heretical Enlightenment

Siri ends not with despair, but defiance. Restore recourse. Mandate transparency. Enforce informed consent as constitutional bedrock. "Once you see the evidence," he warns, "you cannot unlearn the truth." In interviews, like his November 7 Focal Points chat with Peter McCullough, he urges reading the depositions yourself: "It's not anti-vax. It's pro-truth."

On X, the book's igniting sparks. "Blows the lid off the vaccine scam," one user posts, linking Amazon. Another: "Everyone needs to read Vaccines Amen, it'll blow your mind." CHD's exclusive interview? A viral deep dive into the "religion's" rituals.

The Amen That Echoes: Faith, Fact, and the Fragile Veil

Siri's thesis isn't that vaccines are poison. It's that blind faith in them is. We've sacralised a tool, flawed, profitable, powerful, into an idol. The 1986 Act built the temple; COVID gilded it. But temples crack under scrutiny. Siri's book is the hammer.

In a world of "trust the science," Vaccines, Amen whispers: Question the clerics. Read the depositions. Demand the data. Because true salvation isn't in a vial. It's in the light. Once you inject that dose of reality, the altar might just topple. And in its rubble? A healthier heresy: Informed choice, over enforced creed.

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