Explore every episode of the podcast A Tale of Two Sides: A Novel On Vaccines and Disease

JPR shares his closing thoughts on what the future holds for himself and his work. 

JPR goes deeper into the myth that raising a child without vaccines may be a healthier choice for families today.

JPR examines Pharma's long term goal, and why they really have no choice but to push for a total takeover. 

Should colleges mandate meningococcal vaccine? After all, this form of meningitis can be deadly. But does this vaccine even stop the spread of this disease (which it would need to in order to justify a mandate)? How can this infection be identified early so that life-saving treatment can begin? And why did almost half of the experts who evaluated this vaccine at the CDC vote AGAINST adding a second dose, but a second dose was added to the schedule anyway? 

What would happen if small religious schools decided to follow the guidelines of their faith instead of their State vaccine law? Would the State step in and shut them down? Would the Constitution save these schools? Would the public sit back and let these teachers and children be rounded up and hauled off to jail, or would we all finally learn from history and allow people of a different type to share our society openly? 

JPR shares his own experience speaking at a local public school board meeting and the reception he got when he raised the question of discrimination.

JPR discusses the real-life court case which inspired this chapter and offers some advice on how to deal with vaccine custody disputes. 

Step into my office and see how I counsel patients through the new mandatory vaccination law in California. 

Should vaccine policymakers make vaccine choices for children based on what's best for kids as individuals and as a collective, or should they also consider the well-being of vaccine makes as well? If these policymakers held stock in or were paid by pharma, would that influence their decisions or can they set that aside and be objective? If the right choice would end up bringing down someone's bottom line, would anyone be brave enough to make that call? Or is it just easier to keep everyone happy?

JPR reviews the science, or lack thereof, behind the claims that the flu shot reduces severity of disease, hospitalization, and mortality, and shows you how to quickly prove such science doesn't exist to those around do. He also reviews what flu shot claims ARE valid, from a scientific viewpoint. And given there's no evidence the vaccine reduces person to person transmission (and yes, he shows you how to prove that too), mandating this vaccine for school or employment isn't justified. 

Why doesn't mumps have it's very own chapter? Isn't it worth talking about like all the other diseases? Doesn't it make everyone sterile? JPR answers these questions, and more ... including the claim that the company that makes this vaccine faked its efficacy research and is now defending themselves in federal court. 

JPR exands on the real-life events that inspired this chapter, including his own experience with the California Legislature as he watched them create a law that would eventually allow school districts to remove all vaccine-injured children from schools. Will these kids be left by the wayside in every state, or will Americans stand up for the rights of these kids, and for children everywhere, and force their elected officials to do the right thing?

Find out more about JPR's real-life experience working in a hospital that inspired this chapter. 

JPR takes you deeper into the topic of vaccinating premature babies. 

JPR takes you deeper into tetanus and explores the worry that unvaccinating families have about this disease. What are your options when your child gets wounded? Should you get the vaccine, the immune globulin shot, or both? Does it depend on the severity of the wound? How do you decide? And what choice poses more statistical risk: getting every infant and childhood dose of the DTaP vaccine or letting a child grow up with the small risk that tetanus is someday going to strike? 

Go deeper into the various conflicts of interest in vaccine approval and vaccine safety oversight at our CDC. These issues raise a very important question for parents who are trying to make the vaccine decision for their kids -- Can parents trust the three-way partnership between our government (CDC/FDA/HHS), the pediatric medical establishment, and vaccine manufacturers? Or do parents need to evaluate the science for themselves?

Go deeper into the vaccines/autism research with JPR

Go deeper into the vaccines/SIDS discussion as JPR explores the recent Vaccine Injury Court case in which a family finally "won" for this type of fatal adverse event. What new scientific finding was there that prompted the court judge to rule that vaccines likely played a role in this particular case of SIDS? Will this new information pave the way for future vaccines/SIDS claims, or will the Vaccine Injury Court judge this new science to be invalid?

Should parents be able to opt out of vaccines after their child has a severe reaction? The standard of care says only those with a severe, coma-causing brain injury or with life-threatening anaphylactic shock have the right to decline more shots. But are vaccines so critical that people who "only" have a seizure, nerve injury, spinal cord paralysis, allergic reactions that don't cause shock, and other injuries should be forced to continue? Is your politician trying to force this law in your state?

JPR talks about the real-life events that inspired the setting for the conversation in this chapter. The MEPP program did exist, and its results were published. And a news story was released that disclosed the HIPAA violations when school nurses first sent in unredacted medical records to the health department and the California Medical Board. And while HIPAA, FERPA, and other CA laws prohibit such sharing of medical information, no one has called these CA nurses out. 

JPR talks about his three kids playing tackle football all through high school, and how the industry is taking steps to help make football safer for kids and adults so that it can continue to be effective in developing confidence and leadership in our young men. Would that all big industries would be so forthcoming when they realize their product has some very concerning risks. And why would the new director of the CDC dodge a question about vaccinating her own kids? Did this really happen?

Take a deeper dive into the reasons why the CDC/ACIP eliminated one of the HPV vaccine doses from the schedule. Was it for convenience, or was there really a safety concern with that early second dose? And for those who want resources to be able to open the eyes of neighbors, friends, and family about this particular vaccine, avail yourself of the resources from this particular chapter -- credible, scientific resources that question some specific aspects of this particular vaccine.  

JPR goes deeper into his own experiences with live vaccine mandate and vaccine safety debates and why they don't exist anymore in the real world. Then discover the inspiration behind The Guide, why it was created, what it hopes to achieve, and how we all have a responsibility to report any doctor to their medical board if they treat any child with negligence regarding vaccination and adverse events after such. 

JPR takes you into his office and the hospital to experience more about what it's like to catch pneumococcal disease. Is this a deadly disease, or a common childhood illness? Is the vaccine creating more resistance strains of this germ? And what about the vaccine ingredients: is there anything concerning in this shot you should be aware of? What are the risks versus benefits of this vaccine?

JPR shares his personal experiences talking with parents of vaccine-injured children. How do they feel? How do they cope with the anger, and the guilt? Should society embrace them, understand them, support them, and love their injured children? Or should people continue to ignore and reject their very existence as unwelcome reminders of what didn't happen to their own kids after they accepted, without question, the 69-dose CDC vaccine schedule?

JPR takes a closer look at prejudice and discrimination against vaccine safety advocates. Why do the media take this stance? Do they even have a choice? How far will the media go to further the pro-mandatory-vaccine agenda?

JPR takes you deeper into the dilemma that the CDC vaccine schedule has very little safety research that verifies its long-term safety. But what are the media to do? Pharma is their number one advertiser. No company publicizes medical research that challenges the products of their number one customer or gives live air time to any medical professionals who are advocates for vaccine safety. Can viewers still trust the news, or must they find new credible sources of information?

JPR takes you deeper into the LA Times article that brought the infamous Merck memo into the open. How long did this one vaccine company know children were getting too much mercury in their vaccines? When did Congress find out, and what did they do about it? How many years did it take for makers to finally stop adding mercury to vaccines? And why are we still allowed to give mercury-containing flu shots to infants and pregnant moms even though they've been outlawed? 

There are several reasons why the general public should consider whether or not to trust vaccine information circulated by mainstream media. First, pharma spends more money on media advertising than any other industry. Second . . . well, there is no second reason. Or third. If you are running a business (media company) and some of the products made by your number one advertiser are harming a certain percentage of children, what would YOU do? Report it, or quietly look the other way? 

Learn more about whooping cough, how to recognize it, how to treat it, why parents seem NOT to recognize this obvious type of cough, and how to understand the public health department's role in managing this disease.

JPR shares some of his own personal experiences in fighting mandatory vaccine laws and further discusses the 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act and whether or not it should be struck down. 

JPR shares more details how parents can better recognize measles so they can help minimize the spread if their kids comes down with it after international travel, and what the true statistics are on measles risk. And is the outbreak fictionalized in Dr. Tommaso's office really based on real-life events? What about adults getting an MMR vaccine during an outbreak -- is a boost in immunity worth the potential risks? 

Get an inside look at a measles outbreak in a doctor's office and the surrounding community and learn how parents can best recognize this disease quickly so it doesn't spread. But is this disease really the dangerous plague the media portrays it to be, or is it a routine childhood illness for most healthy kids? And what about the vaccine? Should teens and adults rush out for an extra booster shot, or are there some particular risks from this vaccine outside of childhood?

JPR provides more discussion on the human, animal, and chemical ingredients in vaccines. How do we know these are safe? Have researchers specifically evaluated these and proven their safety, or is there simply an assumption of safety? Now that parents are woke to the importance of limiting chemical toxicity in food, water, and products for their babies, should parents also be informed about vaccine chemicals or simply accept them are a necessary downside of vaccination? 

We discuss the challenges new parents face when trying to understand disease risk versus vaccine risk and how to talk to your health care provider about the vaccine decision. 

Is it OK to group as many as 12 vaccines into one visit? Should patients be allowed some flexibility in spacing the shots out? How far will medical organizations go to improve patient compliance with the full schedule? Today JPR breaks down these questions. 

JPR offers more discussion on his journey into aluminum research and how new parents can navigate this dilemma and speak to their doctors about it. Resources: The Vaccine Conversation with Melissa and Dr. Bob podcast. You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on ⁠⁠DrBobSears.com⁠⁠ . Each commentary episode is FREE. ⁠⁠Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters⁠⁠ narrated by the author himself.

Dr. Ryan expands on three lessons from this chapter. First, how important is the Hib meningitis vaccine and what are the ingredients? Next we dig deeper into encephalitis reactions and why it's crucial for parents to recognize it. And why are more and more pediatricians making the complete CDC vaccine schedule mandatory for all their patients, no matter what? You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on ⁠DrBobSears.com⁠ . Each commentary episode is FREE. ⁠Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters⁠ narrated by the author himself.

JPR discusses the pros and cons of hepatitis B vaccination for infants, how the vaccine is made, what the ingredients are, and how to make this decision with guidance from your health care provider. You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on ⁠DrBobSears.com⁠ . Each commentary episode is FREE. ⁠Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters⁠ narrated by the author himself.

Get an inside look at how a large pediatric practice decides to make all vaccines mandatory and the science-based objections raised by some of the doctors. And find out what happens at Sage’s six-month checkup. You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on ⁠DrBobSears.com⁠ . Each commentary episode is FREE. ⁠Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters⁠ narrated by the author himself. THIS IS YOUR LAST FREE EPISODE OF THE AUDIO BOOK CHAPTERS. I HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THESE AND HOPE YOU SUBSCRIBE FOR THE REST.

We follow Sage into her next check-up, watch how her mother comes to realize what informed consent was supposed to mean, and sit with her while she sets out to find the truth. You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on ⁠DrBobSears.com⁠ . Each commentary episode is FREE. ⁠Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters⁠ narrated by the author himself.

Of all the vaccine-targeted infections, infant meningitis is one of the scariest for parents. Here we meet two babies who end up in the ER for two very different, but equally serious, reasons. You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on ⁠DrBobSears.com⁠ . Each commentary episode is FREE. ⁠Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters⁠ narrated by the author himself.

Does your baby really need a hepatitis B vaccine? Here is how one family approached this decision and how the medical community around them reacted. You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on ⁠DrBobSears.com⁠ . Each commentary episode is FREE. ⁠Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters⁠ narrated by the author himself (enjoy these first two Audio Book chapters for FREE).

The author introduces the book and shares his purpose and vision for this written work. You can purchase signed copies of this book and access the extensive research and resources in each chapter of the book on DrBobSears.com . Each commentary episode is FREE. Subscribe here to listen to each of the Audio Book Chapters narrated by the author himself.