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"If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow." — Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder NVIC

Updated November 14, 2022

Welcome to Barbara Speaks Out! This webpage contains Barbara Loe Fisher's latest commentary, as well as articles and presentations authored by Barbara on science, policy, law and ethics of vaccination over the past three decades.

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. For more details information about Barbara, please refer to her CV or profile page.

Barbara's Latest Commentary: Weaponizing COVID to Promote Collectivism

Click any category below to expand a list of related commentaries and statements written by Barbara Loe Fisher.

Doctors Given Power to Vaccinate Young Children without the Knowledge of Parents (June 2021)
Seeing Through the COVID Spin (May 2021)
Vaccination & Censorship: The Truth Will Set Us Free (January 2021)
Vaccination: What's Trust Got To Do With It? (September 2020)
How Fear of a Virus Changed Our World (June 2020)
The National Plan to Vaccinate Every American (March 2020)
Witnessing The Vaccine Injury Epidemic (November 2019)
Freedom of Religion and Conscience in America (October 2019)
The Disappearing Medical Exemption to Vaccination (September 2019)
Freedom to Dissent and the New Blacklist in America (July 2019)
WHO, Pharma, Gates & Government: Who’s Calling the Shots? (January 2019)
Pediatricians Turn Well Baby Checkups Into Vaccine Battlegrounds (November 2018)
If Vaccines Injure Pregnant Women or Their Unborn Babies, What Will the Vaccine Court Do? (September 2018)
Zero Tolerance Vaccine Laws in America: Will You Defend Vaccine Freedom? (July 2018)
Baylor’s Doc Hotez Bullies Parents of Vaccine Injured Children (March 2018)
Is the Childhood Vaccine Schedule Safe? (October 2017)
Class and Race Profiling in the Vaccine Culture War (July 2017)
What’s the Difference Between Companies Selling Cigarettes and Companies Selling Vaccines? (May 2017)
The Vaccine Revolution for Truth (April 2017)
Forced Vaccination: The Tragic Legacy of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (November 2016)
CDC Wants to Expand Power to Eliminate Measles What You Need To Know and Do Now (September 2016)
Knowledge is the Antidote for Vaccine Orthodoxy (January 2016)
Combating Vaccine Extremism (Dec 2015)
Vaccine Injury Compensation: Government’s Broken Social Contract with Parents (Nov 2015)
Parents Deserve More Than School Vaccination Rates (September 2015)
Here Comes the 21st Century Cures Act: Say Goodbye to Vaccine Safety Science (July 2015)
Blackmail and the Medical Vaccine Exemption (May 2015)
Measles in Disneyland: Third MMR Shot and Vaccine Exemption Ban (January 2015)
Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism (May 2013)
Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity (January 2013)
Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & Speak Out (November 2012)
Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Prevent Vaccine Injuries (August 2012)
Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA Licenses New Combo Vaccine (June 2012)
The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone? (December 2011)
Independent Oversight on Vaccine Safety Urgently Needed (June 2011)
Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy (April 2011)
No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates (March 2011)
Medical Science & Public Trust: The policy, ethics and law of vaccination in the 20th & 21st centuries (January 2011)
Back to the Future: Parent Concerns About Vaccine Safety (March 2010)
National Immunization Program's Data Sharing Program & Public Trust (August 2004)

What's Old is New - 1996 Vaccine Safety Research Priorities (May 2018)
Are Vaccine Ingredients Safe? (January 2018)
Is the Childhood Vaccine Schedule Safe? (October 2017)
NVIC Opposes FDA Fast-Tracking of Flu Vaccine Licensing (March 2012)
The Need for a Study Comparing Health Outcomes for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children (February 2012)
New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide (January 2011)
NVIC Launches Research Fund to Study Health & Vaccination (October 2009)
Vaccine Safety Research Priorities: Engaging the Public (April 2008)
Statement to Institute of Medicine Immunization Safety Committee on Vaccine Safety Research Priorities (January 2001)
Vaccine Safety Research Needs: Perspective from Parents (April 1996)
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting & Data Collection (November 1995)

DIY If Your Doctor Won't Report Vaccine Reactions to VAERS (June 2021)
Do You Know How to Recognize a Vaccine Reaction? (August 2018)
America’s Vaccine Injured Warriors Deserve More (May 2017)
ANOTHER Fail for Influenza Vaccine (January 2015)
Will There be an Ebola Outbreak in America? (October 2014)
In Memoriam: Infant Death & Vaccination (May 2011)
Medical Science & Public Trust: The policy, ethics and law of vaccination in the 20th & 21st centuries (January 2011)
Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation (Autism File, 2009)
In the Wake of Vaccines (Mothering Magazine, 2004)
Autism & Vaccines: A New Look at an Old Story (2000)
Shots in the Dark (Next City Magazine, 1999)

Defending Truth & Freedom for 40 Years - (July 2022)
Forced Vaccination Was Always the End Game - (Sept 2021)
Taking No Prisoners in the Vaccine Culture War - (March 2019)
The New Internet Police Protecting You From Freedom of Thought and Speech - (December 2018)
The Pertussis Vaccine Blame Game (September 2018)
If Vaccines Injure Pregnant Women or Their Unborn Babies, What Will the Vaccine Court Do? (September 2018)
Zero Tolerance Vaccine Laws in America: Will You Defend Vaccine Freedom? (July 2018)
Baylor’s Doc Hotez Bullies Parents of Vaccine Injured Children (March 2018)
From Nuremberg to California: Why Informed Consent Matters in the 21st Century (October 2017)
If You Vaccinate, Ask 8 (August 2017)
Class and Race Profiling in the Vaccine Culture War (July 2017)
Why Is Informed Consent to Vaccination A Human Right? (June 2017)
Defending the Religious Exemption to Vaccination (June 2016)
The Health Liberty Revolution to Save Our Children (Oct 2015)
Be in Atlanta October 24, 2015 To Stand Up at the Truth, Transparency & Freedom Rally (Sept 2015)
The Vaccine Culture War in America: Are You Ready? (March 2015)
Grinches in Ohio Attack Vaccine Exemptions (Dec 2014)
Vaccination: Defending Your Right to Know and Freedom to Choose (Nov 2014)
Back to School: Know the Risks and Failures (August 2014)
NVIC Calls for Vaccine Policy & Law Reform To Protect Human and Civil Rights (May 2014)
USA Today: Eliminate Personal Belief Vaccine Exemptions (April 2014)
Turning Vaccine Exemption into Class Warfare (September 2012)
Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Prevent Vaccine Injuries (September 2012)
Americans Fight for Vaccine Choice (May 2012)
Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Exemption in their State (February 2012)
Vaccine Wake-Up Call: Your Children Are Being Taken (September 2011)
The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination (August 2011)
Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring! (July 2011)
No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates (March 2011)
WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Violates Privacy (February 2011)
Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who Is Next? (September 2010)
New Yorkers Stand up for Vaccine Exemptions (December 2008)
Vaccine Freedom of Choice (October 2008)
The Moral Right to Conscientious, Philosophical & Personal Belief Exemption to Vaccination (May 1997)

Public Comments to Federal Advisory Commitees

FDA to Fast-Track Vaccines Targeting Pregnant Women (FDA: November 2015)
FDA Fast-Tracks Licensure of MF59 Adjuvanted Influenza Vaccine (FDA: September 2015)
NVIC Oral Public Comment to the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC: September 2013)
Licensure Pathways to Pandemic Influenza Vaccines (FDA: March 2012)
The Need for Independent Vaccine Safety Oversight (NVAC: June 2011)

Testimony in State Legislatures & U.S. Congress

An NVIC Analysis of Proposed Legislation to Remove Religious and Medical Vaccine Exemptions in Virginia (October 2016)
Affirming Freedom of Conscience and Religious Exemption to Vaccination in Virginia (August 2016)
The SV40 Virus: Has Tainted Polio Vaccine Caused An Increase in Cancer? (October 2003)
Compensating Vaccine Injuries: Are Reforms Needed? (September 1999)
Hepatitis B Vaccine Injuries and Deaths: Lack of Science, Informed Consent or Compensation (May 1999)

Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Review Committee Statements

Public Perspective on Studies of Health Outcomes Related to the Federal Childhood Immunization Schedule (February 2012)
Vaccine Safety Concerns of Parents in 2001 (January 2001)

2010 Needs a Fearless Conversation About Vaccination (January 2010)
Letter to Col. Robert Kadlec, M.D., Opposing Bioshield Legislation Shielding Pharma from Liability for Vaccine Injuries & Deaths (November 2005)
Power Grab by Federal Government Sets Stage for Forced Vaccination in America (November 2002)

SARS-CoV-2 & COVID-19

COVID & COVID-19 Vaccines: What Mothers Should Know (March 2022)
Seeing Through the COVID-19 Spin (April 2021)
How Fear of a Virus Changed the World (June 2020)

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) & Pertussis Vaccines (DPT/DTaP/Tdap)

The Pertussis Vaccine Blame Game (September 2018)
Pertussis Microbe Outsmarts the Vaccines As Experts Argue About Why (March 2016)
Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is it Safe? (November 2013)
Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemptions (August 2010)
Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures (July 2010)
Harris Coulter Was a Brave Visionary (March 2010)
The Licensing of Acellular Pertussis Vaccine (DTaP) For Infants (June 1996)
DPT: A Shot in the Dark by Harris Coulter & Barbara Loe Fisher (1985, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

Measles & MMR Vaccine

What Is Going On With Measles? The Science and Politics of Eradicating Measles (May 2019)
CDC Wants to Expand Power to Eliminate Measles What You Need To Know and Do Now (September 2016)
Measles in Disneyland: Third MMR Shot and Vaccine Exemption Ban? (January 2015)
Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean? (November 2013)

Influenza & Flu Vaccine

Getting a Flu Shot: No Guarantee it Will Work (February 2017)
CDC Admits Flu Shots Fail Half the Time (April 2016)
ANOTHER Fail for Influenza Vaccine (January 2015)
Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity (January 2013
Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is it Safe? (November 2013)
Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence (October 2012)
Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who Is Next? (September 2010)
Mild Swine Flu & Over-Hyped Vaccine (October 2009)
Swine Flu Vaccine Should Not Be Given to Children in Schools (July 2009)
Swine Flu Vaccine: Will We Have A Choice? (June 2009)
Politics, Profits & Pandemic Fear Mongering (May 2009)
Flu Vaccine: Missing the Mark (2004)

Meningococcal Vaccine

Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA Licenses New Combo Vaccine (June 2012)
What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disease & The Vaccine (July 2011)

HPV & Gardasil Vaccine

Gardasil Vaccine, Katie Couric and Cyber-Lynching (January 2014)
Gardasil & Swine Flu Vaccines: Inconvenient Truths (August 2009)
Preventing Gardasil Injuries & Deaths (July 2009)
Gardasil Deaths & Brain Damage: A National Tragedy (February 2009)
Statement on HPV & Gardasil Mandates in Washington, D.C. (March 2007)

Smallpox Vaccine

Statement on CDC Plan to Release Smallpox Vaccine (June 2002)
Smallpox & Forced Vaccination: What Every American Needs to Know (Winter 2002)

Vaccine Contamination

Vaccine Contamination: A Threat to Human Health (May 2010)
Vaccine Contamination: Pig Virus DNA Found in Rotarix Vaccine (April 2010)
THE SV40 Virus: Has Tainted Polio Vaccine Caused An Increase in Cancer? (September 2003)
Simian Virus 40: A Possible Human Polyomavirus (January 1997)

Forced Vaccination: The Tragic Legacy of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (November 2016)
End Pharma Liability Shield Endangering Public Health and Human Rights (November 2016)
Vaccine Injury Compensation: Government’s Broken Social Contract with Parents (November 2015)
No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates (March 2011)
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Failed Experiment in Tort Reform? (November 2008)
Compensating Vaccine Injuries: Are Reforms Needed? (September 1999)

The New Internet Police Protecting You From Freedom of Thought and Speech (December 2018)
Gardasil Vaccine, Katie Couric and Cyber-Lynching (January 2014)
Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking (July 2013)
Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy (April 2011)
Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism (September 2010)
Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemptions (August 2010)

Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is it Safe? (November 2013)
If Vaccines Injure Pregnant Women or Their Unborn Babies, What Will the Vaccine Court Do? (September 2018)

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