Dr Don MacDonald has spent 17 years in the health and wellness industry as a chiropractor in Edmonton Alberta. It was from his position at the adjusting table that he noticed a common frustration developing into a major stressor in the lives of many patients.
He identified it as ‘the underdog’ and they couldn’t seem to break out of it.
It was a pattern he had seen in his own life - from the basketball days of his youth to life as a businessman and health practitioner. It stopped people from living their best lives, and often stripped them of true happiness. He made it his mission to find out how to break the underdog curse and move into authentic, lasting success.
Dr Don is now a life coach and motivational speaker who dedicates his time to empowering people with the new, inspiring information regarding success, health, and his first love, neurology.
Dr Paul Thomas (affectionately known as Dr Paul) is now on a mission to educate the public on the issues of toxins in the environment and in vaccines, and brings general pediatric and controversial topics to his patients in person and to the world on YouTube and his blogs. He is not against vaccines, but wants to guide people to vaccinate in as safe a manner possible and encourage the vaccine industry to improve the safety of the vaccines we currently have and develop safer options in the future.
Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., former Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, is an award-winning science journalist and book author. Her writing has appeared in many of the nation’s most respected and credible publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and on thecover of Smithsonian Magazine. A meticulous researcher who’s not afraid to be controversial, she is nationally known as a journalist who opens people’s eyes to the realities behind accepted practices in health care.
For 6 years, Del Bigtree was an Emmy Award-winning producer on the daytime talk show The Doctors. With a background both as a filmmaker and an investigative medical journalist, he is best known for combining visually impactful imagery, raw emotional interviews and unbiased investigative research into stories that push the envelope of daytime television. Some of his most thought-provoking episodes include a rare televised debate between Monsanto’s head of toxicology Dr. Donna Farmer and GMO activist Jeffrey Smith and an exposé on a “gold standard” medical test that mistakenly indicts loving parents for child abuse, causing their children to be remanded to Child Protective Services.
When Bigtree began investigating the story of the CDC Whistleblower and the fraud perpetrated by the CDC, he soon realized that he had stumbled upon a story of corruption and deception beyond any he had ever seen. Further investigation into the wrongful destruction of Andrew Wakefield’s career orchestrated by Big Pharma and the UK Department of Health inspired him to focus all of his attention on what he believes to be the most crucial documentary of the year. Bigtree is proud to be working side by side with Andrew Wakefield, one of the most important minds of our time, to create a documentary that will not only alert Americans to the outright destruction of their civil liberties, but will lead the charge to demand the formation of a genuine independent research body conducting legitimate science to ensure that all vaccines are truly safe.
In this interview, Del discusses why he is so passionate about this issue, his concern about "journalism" as it exists today, as well as other pertinent issues and he leaves us with an inspiring and positive message.
Mary Pulles Cavanaugh - Is a mom of three girls who are vaccine injured. She became an avid researcher in 2008 by necessity when she began the autism journey of her youngest daughter that led her to awareness of the sick-care system that is so prevalent today. What keeps her focused is the knowledge that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. In 2013 Mary, also known as Rebel, became one of the Thinking Moms and a Co-Author of their book "Evolution of a Revolution: From Hope To Healing How Thinking Parents Are Recovering Their Children and Uncovering the Truth." This year she was excited to publish her own book "The Book On Greatness How To Keep Shining Your Light". Rebel looks forward to a future with natural healers of the mind and body, and many future travels discovering new places with her husband of 29 years. Her current focus is staying uncomfortable and manifesting change. Her website can be found at marypullescavanaugh.com You can also find her on twitter @max4metals.
Judy A. Mikovits earned BA in Chemistry from University of Virginia in 1980 and a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from George Washington University in 1992. In her thirty-five-year career, she has done pioneering work in immunology, epigenetics, virology, and natural products drug development including discovery of the modulation of DNA Methylation machinery by human retroviral infection and the concept of inflammatory cytokines and chemokine signatures of infection and disease. In 2014 she and Kent Heckenlively co-authored the book Plague. One scientist’s intrepid search for the truth about human retroviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, autism and other diseases.
She reveals why so many children are getting injured by the HPV vaccines including Gardasil, if parents need to be concerned about HPV for their children, how to heal naturally from HPV and how to heal from injuries that have occurred by the HPV vaccines.
Tamara Sutton was forced to deal with grief when her son died suddenly. This led her on a long journey of discovery of herself and healing. Whether you are dealing with grief due to a loved one having a vaccine injury or death, Tamara gives suggestions for helping you to move through it.
Ginger Taylor became an activist for vaccine choice, informed consent and parental rights after her own child was vaccine injured. She wants to help others avoid the pain that her child has endured as a result of this avoidable injury.
We talk about the movie, VaxXed: From Coverup to Catastrophe, why MD's don't recognize a vaccine injury, how MD's don't give full informed consent when it comes to THIS medical procedure, unlike every other medical procedure, and more!
Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice
Curtis Duncan is a holistic health and weight loss expert. He has spent close to 12 years doing his own independent research on health and wellness. His areas of expertise include holistic health, the Emotional Freedom Technique, self-love and esteem, Vitamin D and the benefits of sunlight exposure, diet and nutrition, the dangers of environmental chemicals and GMOs, natural remedies, weight loss, the dangers of stress, women’s and men’s health, preventing and curing disease, the dangers of Western Medicine, vaccines, and pharmaceuticals, sexuality/sexual health, and food and health conspiracies. He has a deep understanding of the politics and business of obesity and “disease”, how our predatory economic system makes people sick, and the fraudulent global Medical Monopoly and their conspiracy to make humanity sick and so they can make endless profits at individuals’ and society’s expense. www.drcurtisduncan.com
In today’s episode, Curtis leads us through an Emotional Freedom Technique to help deal with stress.
TO learn more, go to www.healthyalternativestovaccinations.com, www.factsonvax.com.
Stuart and Theresa Warner are a husband-and-wife chiropractic team who have chiropractic practice that is child-centered that is guided by their passion for helping children achieve their full God-given potential.
The Warners were known as “pediatric chiropractors” before there were pediatric chiropractors.
In 1995, the pair founded the celebrity- and government-endorsed Kids Day America/International™, the biggest day ever for chiropractors helping children! Each year, this powerful event drives chiropractors to the forefront of their towns. The entire community gets involved donating to, promoting, and attending this free event that is dedicated to children’s health and safety and environmental awareness. To date, more than 2,500 chiropractors have participated, resulting in over 5 million children being screened for subluxation!
Drs. Warner also founded Wellness Moms America™, chiropractic-led monthly meetings that bring together like-minded mothers to teach them how to live the chiropractic wellness lifestyle. In addition to educating mothers, these meetings also introduce participating chiropractors to an abundance of new families who are seeking higher levels of health and wellness for their families. This network is constantly expanding, as new chapters continue to be formed across the country and around the world.
Drs. Stu and Theresa are widely sought-after speakers on the topics of chiropractic pediatrics and pregnancy. They have served as regular keynote and team speakers for many of the top chiropractic programs, including Parker Seminars, Dynamic Essentials, International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, Total Solution Program, New Beginnings Philosophy Program, and Teach the World About Chiropractic. They have also taught at hundreds of state conventions, philosophy nights, and private programs and have been postgraduate faculty members of several chiropractic colleges.
Drs. Warner are contributing authors to the pediatric chapter of the New York Times best-selling book,One Minute Wellness. They have served as spokespersons on the topic of raising healthy children for various forms of media, including television, print, and radio.
http://chiropracticparenting.com/
Andrew Wakefield MB.BS., is an academic gastroenterologist. He received his medical degree from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London in 1981. He qualified as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and trained as a gastrointestinal surgeon with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Traveling Fellowship to study small-intestinal transplantation in Toronto. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in the U.K. in 2001. Wakefield has published over 140 original scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters.
In 1995, as an academic physician working in a London teaching hospital, he was contacted by the parent of an autistic child with stomach issues. He soon learned from several other parents with autistic behaviors, that their children’s regressive behavior immediately followed an MMR vaccine. He started investigating a possible role between gastrointestinal issues, the MMR vaccine, and neurological injury in children. In pursuit of this possible link, Dr. Wakefield participated in a study of twelve children with both stomach and developmental issues. The ensuing report, written with twelve other authors would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of Medicine.
Wakefield has defended the paper, his medical and personal ethics and his findings in his national bestselling book, “Callous Disregard,” as well as in several video interviews.
More recently, on appeal, the English High Court overturned the allegations made against the senior authors of the Lancet paper and Wakefield’s colleague Professor John Walker-Smith was reinstated and exonerated.
Wakefield is the only one of the 13 co-authors barred from practicing medicine. He lost his country, his career, and his medical license. He considers these losses a small price to pay for the privilege of working with affected families.
Since moving to Austin, Texas, he co-founded the Autism Media Channel with Polly Tommey with the goal of countering the pharmaceutical marketing and advertising juggernaut and the biased corporate-owned media with their own media. Together they produced the award-winning documentary, “Who Killed Alex Spourdalkis?,” which was Wakefield’s directorial debut.
Wakefield continues to fight back on behalf of affected children, winning numerous awards and has released a second non-fiction book, Waging War on The Autistic Child. This is due to come out in paperback form Skyhorse Publishing with a brand new chapter on the CDC whistleblower story. Wakefield has interviewed with Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes, Matt Lauer at NBC, and on CNN, ABC’s Good Morning America, the BBC, and multiple other networks and radio stations worldwide. He has also published over 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications and spoken internationally on autism and vaccines. His story and his exoneration have been featured in Dr. David Lewis’ book Science for Sale and are the subjects of a feature documentary to be released by Miranda Bailey’s Ambush Entertainment
www.vaxxedthemovie.com
Aimee Gardner, Director of Rhode Island against mandatory HPV vaccinations.
We talk about why this issue is important to her, what it has meant to the people of Rhode Island regarding having their exemptions potentially removed in regards to the HPV vaccine, the risks associated with the vaccine, and the best way to prevent cervical cancer.
For more info:
Petition & Fundraising www.Gaspeeproject.com/
Blog www.NOHPVmandateRI.wordpress.
Facebook.com/groups/
Twitter @MyRightsRI
Brian S. Hooker, PhD, PE, was formerly a bioengineer and the team leader for the High Throughput Biology Team and Operations Manager of the DOE Genomics: Genomes to Life (GTL) Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Hooker also is credited as a co-inventor for five patents.
In 1985, Dr. Hooker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California. He earned his masters of science degree in 1988 and his doctorate in 1990, both in biochemical engineering, from Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington. Hooker formerly managed applied plant and fungal molecular biology research projects, including development of plant-based biosensors and transgenic production systems for human pharmaceutical proteins and industrial enzymes at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where systems biology researchers are focused on understanding gene and protein networks involved in individual cell signaling, communication between cells in communities, and cellular metabolic pathways. Hooker has also been involved in research on microbial kinetics and transport mathematical modeling, design, development, and support for biological destruction of chlorinated organic hydrocarbons, development of tP4 transgenic plant protein production platform technology, and development of the RT3D bioremediation/natural attenuation software package.
He left PNNL in 2009, and was hired as an associate professor at Simpson University in Redding, CA where he specializes in biology and chemistry. Simpson University is a private Christian University of liberal arts and professional studies offering undergraduate, graduate and teaching credential programs.
Hooker is well known for his concerns regarding vaccine safety and the conflicts of interest within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His son, Steve, is vaccine-injured. Hooker is a board member at Focus Autism, an organization which believes in the “ongoing cover-up of the vaccine/autism link.”
In 2013, biologist Dr. Brian Hooker received a call from a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who led the agency’s 2004 study on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and its link to autism.
The scientist, Dr. William Thompson, confessed that the CDC had omitted crucial data in their final report that revealed a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. Over several months, Dr. Hooker records the phone calls made to him by Dr. Thompson who provides the confidential data destroyed by his colleagues at the CDC. This information is featured in the film, VaxXed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe.
Gwen Olsen is the author of the award-winning book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher. She is also a contributing author to three books, Drugging Our Children by Dr. Sharna Olfman et al, Doctor of the Futureby Dan Yachter, D.C., and the Maximized Living Makeover Manualby Dr. Ben Lerner et al. Gwen has also published health-related articles in the Well Being Journal, Natural News, and the Health News Digest.
Gwen is a passionate health activist, writer, and dynamic speaker who devotes much of her time to mental health and child advocacy. Most recently, she is the founder of the Mental Health Alchemists, and provides one-on-one health coaching services and retreats for people who want to reclaim their mental and physical health without drugs.
Gwen volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for the Travis County court system from 1995 to 2000, serving as an advocate for abused and neglected foster children in Texas. A 2007 Human Rights Award recipient, she is sought after internationally as a speaker and media resource, and has testified numerous times before Congress and the FDA.
A fifteen-year-veteran pharmaceutical rep from 1985 – 2000, Gwen worked for McNeil Pharmaceutical, Syntex Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Labs and Forest Laboratories. She was a hospital rep and specialist rep for the majority of her career, educating residents in hospital teaching settings and selling prescription drugs to doctors in obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology and psychiatry.
Gwen has a unique industry insider’s perspective of the current U.S. healthcare dilemma, and utilizes both her experience and the insight she received in her extensive sales training with Pharma to illuminate marketing trends and illustrate how current greed and conflicts of interest make the system itself the biggest health risk to American consumers.
For over a decade, Gwen has made hundreds of appearances and presentations and has been interviewed and featured on national and international television, radio, on-line and print media, documentary films, etc. She is currently featured in the award-winning documentary,Prescription Thugs.
www.GwenOlsen.com
Dr. Guy F. Riekeman is a second generation chiropractor who has dedicated more than 40 years of his life to the cause of vitalistic health and wellness. After graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1972, Dr. Riekeman became a successful chiropractor and businessman, creating companies and seminar programs dedicated to educating the public about chiropractic care and how to facilitate personal growth, living with integrity, and achieving optimum performance. He has worked in higher education as a philosophy instructor, Vice President of Sherman College of Chiropractic, and as Chancellor of Palmer College of Chiropractic, before becoming the fourth president of Life University in Marietta, Georgia in 2004.
As a thought leader in healthcare, Dr. Riekeman campaigns tirelessly to put vitalistic healthcare at the forefront of the public consciousness. In these times of change, chiropractic is at the proverbial tipping point, as people move toward taking personal responsibility for their health and wellness choices, and seeking for alternatives to the medical model that has driven this country to become sicker and more dependent on prescription drugs.
In addition to defending and upholding the virtues of Chiropractic, Riekeman is also dedicated to expanding Chiropractic across the globe. He created the LIFEforce 1000 program, a group of dedicated chiropractors whose mission is to spread principled and vitalistic healthcare and to establish access to chiropractic care and chiropractic education for anyone in the world who wants it. He is also spearheading the first chiropractic programs in China and Italy, which will open the chiropractic door to potentially two billion people.
Since becoming president of Life University, the school has become the largest chiropractic college in the world. Under his leadership, LIFE has made significant strides in area of climate awareness and green initiatives. As a founding member of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment Circle, Life University built the first-ever, college residence to receive a gold level certification from LEED, created perhaps the most sustainable college dining hall, the Socrates Café, and replaced a series of parking lots with Lyceum Park, a vast green space in the middle of campus for lectures, concerts and philosophical programs.
Through all these efforts, Dr. Riekeman has emerged as one of the most sought-after speakers for both professional and lay audiences in the United States, as well as internationally in places such as Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Riekeman encourages every person to “Make Your Life Extraordinary” by maximizing the expression of the perfection within each and every one of us. With integrity, personal responsibility and a focus on the positive aspects of every individual and situation, Riekeman believes an extraordinary life is attainable by every person on the planet.
www.life.edu
Ricky Barnes has been working in film and TV for over 30 years. During much of that career, he has worked as a Director of Photography. As a Writer/Director his previous feature film, The Enquirers, was the Northwest Spotlight Feature at the Seattle International Film Festival.
He decided to product the film, 50 Cents A Dose, which is about one father revisits the medical study in which his oldest daughter participated: the study on Thimerosal (a mercury based medical product). What begins as a lighthearted rumination on parenthood, ends as a discovery of scandal, and perhaps - a nation in denial.
Ricky and I talk about the CDC whistleblower, #Vaxxed, what led him to create this film.
You can contact him at info@50centsmovie.com.
You can watch his film at:
http://www.50centsmovie.com/
Dr. Marissa Heisel considered becoming a naturopath or midwifebefore ultimately deciding to become a chiropractor. After thebirth of her son, she became a doula and started training to becomea midwife. She discovered after the birth of her daughter thatmidwifery would not be a great option.
She recommitted to her Chiropractic practice and soon discoveredessential oils. She has been using them successfully in herpractice and with her family.
Lance Simmens has published about 180 articles in the Huffington Post, but his most recent article, Why our Children Should Hate us, was censored and pulled from this publication.
Lance Simmens is currently the President of the Malibu Adamson House Foundation, he also serves as Second Vice-President of the Malibu Democratic Club, is a board member of the Southern California chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, and is on the Board of Advisors for Vote Riders, a national organization which promotes more fair and equitable voter identification laws.
He has spent nearly four decades involved in public service at all levels of government: Federal, State and local. In the process he has devoted his professional career to a search for the most effective and efficient public policies, programs, and processes to benefit the society at large. He most served as the California State Director for Gasland Grassroots, an organization devoted to public education on the issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and promotion of the current HBO documentary Gasland 2, and was California State Director for the Citizens’ Trade Campaign, organizing efforts to defeat the Trans Pacific Partnership.
He served CA Governor Jerry Brown as Deputy Director of Communications for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, the largest public works program in the history of the U.S. In this position he helped to steer the program forward with a business plan that has largely been hailed as realistic during a most difficult economic period. In addition he served as the chief spokesman for the project, doing innumerable interviews, both on and off camera, oversaw placement of opinion-editorials in all major newspapers in the State, and appeared in dozens of public for a to advance this visionary transportation option for future generations.
Mr. Simmens has spent fifteen years in Federal service, largely serving in senior intergovernmental affairs positions for four Cabinet Secretaries, six years as Assistant Executive Director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where he staffed the powerful Urban Economic Policy Committee charged with setting national economic and budgetary priorities for the nation’s largest cities, six years as Senior Economic Counsel to U.S. Senator James Sasser on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and for nearly eight years served Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell as Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs.
In this capacity he received the most distinguished non-member awards for public service by the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, and is the only person to have ever received the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities’ Public Service Citation twice. He also served as the Chairman of the Governor’s panels on development of both wind and solar energy and engineered groundbreaking model ordinances that have been emulated nationwide.
In 1999 Mr. Simmens served as senior advisor on the President’s Council on Y2K Conversion and was responsible for preparation and publication of a government-wide Scenario Policy document on the issue at a Cabinet-level meeting held at Blair House that Fall.
In 1993 Mr. Simmens was appointed by President Clinton to help establish the Federal government’s first Office of Sustainable Development in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Over the next four years he was instrumental in developing and implementing programs, policies and regulations for sustainable fisheries that would earn him the highest award from the Department of Commerce, the Gold Medal Award, as leader of a team of government officials who pioneered sustainable initiatives off the coast of New England, the Pacific Northwest, and the Gulf of Mexico.
As Assistant Executive Director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors from 1987-1993 he was responsible for economic and budgetary resolutions and policies on key issues facing urban America, including NAFTA, the Census undercount, targeted fiscal assistance, and reordering Federal budget priorities to capture the “peace dividend” afforded by the end of the Cold War. In 1991 he led a delegation of Mayors to Moscow to participate in a conference on Federalism to help with the transition of government under the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1992 he organized an historic meeting of Russian and American Mayors at the United Nations where they heard testimony from major world leaders including Carl Sagan.
During the 1980’s Mr. Simmens served as Legislative Director for U.S. Senator James Sasser and his Senior Economic Counsel on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. He directed his energies to fighting to preserve domestic discretionary spending against the ravages of the Reagan supply-side spending cuts.
Over the years he has written extensively, drafting statements for the Congressional Record and Committee publications, op-ed articles, and speeches. He has published over 400 articles under his own name, and is a regular contributing writer for Huffington Post.
In 2006 he was chosen by former Vice-President Al Gore to be one of the first class of individuals to be trained to deliver presentations on the implications of climate change. As a climate change messenger he has delivered over 100 presentations worldwide during that time, including an invitation to present at the London School of Economics.
He has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Temple University and completed courses for a doctorate from George Washington University, served as an Executive for five years at the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University, has taught public policy at Santa Monica College, and completed Executive programs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Institute for International Development at Harvard University and the U.S. Army War College.
In his spare time he is a voracious reader and he has written a screenplay, a novel, which is expected to be published soon that touches on the perils of drilling for natural gas, a book of political and personal stories, and The Evolution of a Revolution: An Attack upon Reason, Compromise and the Constitution, has appeared in several political documentaries including 14 Women, Electile Dysfunction, and Gasland 2.
He is the author of “The Evolution of a Revolution: An Attack Upon Reason, Compromise and the Constitution” and “Fracktured”, the definitive anti-fracking novel.
In this episode, Dr. Bark talks about politics, cannabis, corruption at CDC and pharma, Bought, Vaxxed plus ways to get and stay healthy.
Dr. Bark received her Medical Doctorate at Rush University in 1986 after studying psychology at the University of Illinois and University of London. She then trained in both pediatrics and rehab medicine at NYU and U of Ill. She immediately took the positing of director of the pediatric emergency room at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.
After two years, she began her studies in alternative medical practices such as nutrition and classical homeopathy all while keeping her hands in emergency and urgent care medical work as well as starting her private practice in 1993.
In 2010, Dr Bark went off to Haiti to act as a volunteer physician and eventually returned two more time in response to the earthquake and cholera.
In 2010, Dr Bark also began a Masters program in healthcare emergency medicine at Boston University where she focused on vaccine safety, efficacy and ethics issues. She is currently an adjunct professor for the Boston graduate program, teaching the psycho-social effects of disaster.
Dr. Bark is an avid speaker at medical conferences and has been published on the topics of Homeopathy in medicine in two medical text books and most recently, was wrote a chapter about the lack of scientific evidence for mandated flu vaccines for health care workers, entitled “Policy without Reason” in a book edited by NYU legal research professor, Mary Holland.
Dr. Bark was co-producer of the documentary “Bought” and featured in the documentary “Silent Epidemic”. She is active in legislative issues and has given testimony for senate health committees
Dr. Bark has been featured in local and national magazines and was the feature article for O magazine July 2012.
Her blog can be found at www.disease-reversal.com and her specially formulated supplement to repair mitochondria and boost cognition (Invigoral) along with her favorite low glycemic, heavy metal-free, raw chocolates and natural skin care can be found at www.skinandchocolate.com.
You can find her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @doctorsensation.
Barbara Loe Fisher is president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity she co-founded with parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982. For the past three decades, she has led a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system. She has researched, analyzed and publicly articulated the major issues involving the science, policy, law, ethics and politics of vaccination to become one of the world’s leading non-medical, consumer advocacy experts on the subject
She is co-author of the seminal book DPT: A Shot in the Dark (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985); (get links to books below)author of The Consumer’s Guide to Childhood Vaccines (1997);Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic (2008) and Reforming Vaccine Policy & Law: A Guide (2014). She is a video commentator for the NVIC Newsletter and Mercola Newsletter and a blogger atwww.VaccineAwakening.blogspot.com. Her long public record of vaccine safety and informed consent advocacy was featured in the 2011 award winning film documentary THE GREATER GOOD.
Her 1985 book, DPT: A Shot in the Dark, which she co-authored with Harris Coulter, Ph.D., was the first major, well documented critique of America’s mass vaccination system calling for safety reforms and the right to informed consent to vaccination. She worked with Congress to include vaccine safety provisions in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and with parents of vaccine injured children to bring the issue of vaccine safety to public attention, including leading demonstrations at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the White House in 1986.
She conducted research and developed a comprehensive library on childhood infectious diseases, vaccines and federal vaccine research, regulation and policymaking that serves as the foundation for information disseminated by NVIC. She coordinated five scientific conferences, including the 1989 International Scientific Workshop on Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines and four International Public Conferences on Vaccination in 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2009.
During the past 25 years, she has served as a consumer representative on vaccine advisory and public engagement committees, including the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (1988-1991); the Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum (1995-1998) where she helped coordinate five public workshops on vaccine safety issues; the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (1999-2002); the Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative (2002-2005); the Vaccine Safety Writing Group (2009) and is a member of the Consumer’s United for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Cochrane Collaboration – U.S. She provides public comment at federal health agency meetings, has testified in Congress and state legislative hearings and is a featured speaker at health care conferences.
Barbara has been quoted on the subject of vaccine safety and informed consent to vaccination in national news reports including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. Since 1993, she has debated more doctors on the subject of vaccination than any other American, including on NBC’s “The Today Show,” as well as on CNN, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America and National Public Radio. She has appeared in vaccine news reports on CBS “Sunday Morning News,” ABC “World News Tonight” ABC “Nightline,” PBS“Frontline” and CBS “The Doctors.”
She has authored position statements and articles that have contributed to the national dialogue about vaccine safety and informed consent, including “The Moral Right to Conscientious, Philosophical and Personal Belief Exemption to Vaccination” (National Vaccine Advisory Committee 1997); “Shots in the Dark” (The Next City Magazine 1999); “Smallpox and Forced Vaccination: What Every American Needs to Know” (The Vaccine Reaction 2002); “In the Wake of Vaccines” (Mothering Magazine 2004); “Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic” (Autism File2009); “Whooping Cough Outbreaks and Vaccine Failures” (NVIC Newsletter 2010); “Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy” (NVIC Newsletter 2011); “Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. the Evidence” (NVIC Newsletter 2012); “Measles Reports in America: What Does It mean?” (NVIC Newsletter 2013); and “Leave Parents Free to Choose Vaccines” (USA Today 2014).
The daughter of a nurse and an Army officer, she graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English and was a writer and community relations professional at a teaching hospital before becoming a Mom in 1978. The mother of three grown children, her oldest son suffered a convulsion, collapse and brain inflammation within hours of his fourth DPT shot in 1980 when he was two and a half years old and was left with multiple learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.
Jack Wolfson D.O., F.A.C.C., is a board certified cardiologist who uses nutrition and supplements to prevent and treat disease. After ten years performing angiograms, pacemakers, and other cardiac procedures, Dr. Wolfson started Wolfson Integrative Cardiology in 2012 to offer patients the ultimate in holistic heart care.
On this episode, we spend some time talking about how to heal the body using nutrition. We also discuss how to help a vaccine injured person heal.
Dr. Wolfson was raised in Chicago, attended Midwestern University for his D.O. degree and completed a 3 year Internal Medicine residency and 3 year cardiology fellowship. He was selected as the chief fellow of his class.
Together with his wife, Dr. Heather Wolfson DC, they are The Drs. Wolfson. Their website TheDrsWolfson.com is an excellent resource for holistic health and lifestyle information. The Drs. Wolfson have two beautiful boys who were born at home, nursed for over 3 years, and they are still co-sleeping.
Amazon Best Seller, The Paleo Cardiologist is the first book by Dr. Wolfson.
www.TheDrsWolfson.com
Leslie Manookian is an award-winning documentary film producer and writer and former successful Wall Street business executive. She chose to leave Wall Street at the height of her career in order to pursue a more meaningful path. She is a member of the Board of the Weston A. Price Foundation and has served as chapter leader for the Sun Valley/Ketchum, Idaho area since 2008. She is also a qualified homeopath, nutrition and wellbeing junky, and a health freedom advocate.
Originally from Idaho, Manookian’s career in finance took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs. She later became Director of Alliance Capital in London running their European Growth Portfolio Management and Research business. She learned of the vaccine debate while living and working in London and determined that one-day she would make a documentary exploring the issue. She conceived, wrote, and produced, The Greater Good, fulfilling that dream. She has been featured in a cover article in Barron’s, in numerous other financial publications, in dozens of TV, radio, print and Internet interviews, and a presenter at numerous conferences. She advocates for nutrient dense traditional foods and sustainable farming in here community. She has served on the board, managed or consulted for many organizations in her community. She has been active legislatively, playing a leading role in defeating the extension of a vaccine-tracking registry in Idaho and helping to secure legislation protecting consumer access to raw milk. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a BA from Middlebury College, and M.L.C. Hom from Lakeland College of Homeopathy.
www.GreaterGoodMovie.org (You can stream the film from the website and watch the trailer here)
Irene Pi is an activist who works tirelessly to educate people about the risks associated with vaccinations. #showupday was created by Irene to unify the country to visit your legislators to educate them about vaccine risks. Irene is also involved in helping to coordinate the CDC Truth and Transparency rally happening this month in Atlanta and other cities across the country.
Sue Elkind, E-RYT-500, RPYT Owner, Director is recognized internationally in the yoga community as a teachers teacher, with over 20 years of yoga experience. Her in-depth knowledge of alignment and therapeutics, along with her passion to teach from her heart, allows her students to expand their potential both physically and spiritually. Sue is an expert in prenatal and postnatal yoga and skilled in meditation. As an activist, Sue is dedicated to empowering women through yoga in all stages of life.
Sue is director of DIG Yoga's 200 and 500 hour Teacher Training programs, and developed a Pre/Post Natal Training that she offers worldwide. She enjoys donating her time teaching fundraisers for various causes and has presented at festivals like Wanderlust, Global Mala, Namas Day, Bermuda Yoga Festival, and Recharge in the Swiss Alps. Sue is the author of DIG Pregnancy, Birth & Baby: A Conscious and Empowered Approach to Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga and has been featured on the video Yoga Mama, for Crunch Fitness, as well as Fit Pregnancy, W Magazine, and Spa Magazine.
Inspired by keeping great company, quality time in nature and her loving her family, Sue co-founded DIG Yoga in 2010 with Naime Jezzeny in Lambertville, NJ, as a place to nourish the body, mind and heart with yoga.