Recommended: HART article which casts doubt on the "we eradicated smallpox through medical science" trope.
In HART we recently published a fascinating article on smallpox, arguing for the possibility that humanity had not actually eradicated it, but merely rebranded it:
As we said in the conclusion:
However, the role that the Smallpox eradication narrative plays in science and medicine is so vast that the implications of questioning its foundations cannot be overstated.
I just came across this interesting snippet from a 1969 issue of the BMJ, which we had not seen when writing the piece above:
The notion that the intransigence which we are currently witnessing of the medical community towards recognising the harms from the mRNA injections is something new is starkly contradicted by the casual nature of the reference to hundreds of “deaths from vaccination”.
Link to PDF of article:
The fact they casually mention the 300 deaths following vaccination is shocking to me. I am sorry but I do not want my life or anyone in my family to be the one who is sacrificed in a vaccine campaign. No matter how much I try to love my neighbour giving up my life is a step too far. How accurate is the 300 count? Is it like today's standard an undercount, we will never know. The safe and effective game has been played for a long time.
1969 - when healthcare was less political and Pharma less powerful - when the only censorship was the occasional D-notice - when vaccines could be criticised in a medical journal even in the second year of a global influenza pandemic.