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The American Plan to Eliminate Vaccines
The hiring of David Geier by the U. S. government to study if vaccines cause 
autism is another step toward getting rid of immunizations altogether.
 
Jonathan Jarry M. Sc. | 4 Apr 2025
Medical
Critical Thinking
Health and Nutrition
Pseudoscience

We dont defend the things we take for granted. Vaccines have long been 
victims of their own success, but only insofar as too many people were 
hesitant to get them. But what if vaccines were eliminated altogether?

Its hard to ring the alarm these days without sounding mad. The eradication 
of vaccines from the United States? It may seem farfetched to people who dont 
pay attention to the Trump administrations actions vis-a-vis public health, 
but the recent announcement that David Geier is to be a senior data analyst 
on a study of vaccines and autism commissioned by the American federal 
government is one more step toward eliminating one of humanitys scientific 
triumphs.

Vaccines do not cause autism. I have recently written about how we know that 
vaccines are safe. You can also spend a day reading the many, many credible 
papers answering this question. The debate has been put to rest by the 
scientific community and is being kept on life support by activists who deny 
the consensus on this issue. They will often prop up bad studies birthed by 
anti-vaxxers. The problem for their credibility is that these studies do not 
emanate from the government of the most powerful country on Earth.

This is about to change.
Dumpster diving at the CDC

You would expect an organization called the Institute of Chronic Diseases to 
occupy a large glass building on a university campus, filled with people 
dressed in white lab coats. But the nonprofits yearly tax filings since 2013 
show one name running the show: Dr. Mark Geier. Under Compensation of five 
highest-paid employees, we read a single word: NONE.

The self-described institute was led by Dr. Mark Geier, who according to RFK 
Jrs anti-vaccine organization, Childrens Health Defense, passed away a few 
weeks ago. On paper, he looked like a legitimate physician-researcher: a 
bachelors degree in zoology, a doctorate in genetics, and a medical degree, 
all from George Washington University in D. C. His obituary on the site lists 
various affiliations as diplomat and co-founder of a few scientific and 
medical endeavours, and it notes that he is survived by his son and tennis 
partner, David.

While his fathers credentials are impressive, Davids are much shorter (and he 
should not be confused with Dr. David Geier, an orthopaedic surgeon). He has 
neither doctorate nor medical degree, but a bachelors of arts in biology and 
a few graduate-level classes. Why would David Geier be recruited by the 
Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on whether or not 
vaccines cause autism? Because Kennedy is not driven by curiosity but by his 
preexisting belief that vaccines are responsible for autism.

Pseudoscience is often steered by confirmation bias, where the conclusion 
comes first and the evidence must follow, otherwise it is rejected. Cherry-
picking allows for small, skewed studies to be heralded as definitive proofs, 
while larger, rigorous trials are dismissed as coming from corrupt sources. 
David Geier was chosen because he will deliver the conclusion Kennedy already 
believes in.

Mark and David Geier have a long history of unethical research practices, the 
most amusing example of which may be the 2017 retraction of a paper they co-
authored and which argued that conflicts of interest may explain why most 
studies on the vaccine-autism link failed to find an association. The twist? 
On top of a number of errors, the Geiers paper had failed to disclose, wait 
for it, their own conflicts of interest on this topic, chief among them that 
some of the papers authors were involved in litigation related to vaccines 
and autism. Indeed, the Geiers were picked as expert witnesses in hundreds of 
vaccine-related lawsuits, though many judges dismissed the pair for being 
unqualified.

But the most salient of these breaches of ethics may be what the two did in 
late 2003, early 2004. They had received ethics approval to go to the Centers 
for Disease Control (CDC) and access information from their Vaccine Safety 
Datalink, which collects data on vaccination and health outcomes. On their 
first visit, they tried to perform analyses of the data that had not been 
approved for their research project. On their second visit, they attempted to 
merge data files to create more complete medical records, thus increasing the 
risk of a breach of confidentiality, and they renamed files for removal which 
were not allowed to be removed. Conspiracy theorists will claim the CDC was 
trying to keep information secret; clinical researchers, however, know that 
large datasets filled with identifiable information should only be used by 
researchers according to strict rules. Imagine a scientist going through your 
own medical records willy-nilly and unsupervised, violating their own ethics-
approved protocol because theyre on a mission to document something that 
doesnt exist.

Now imagine David Geier being given access to an even larger dataset and 
receiving permission by the anti-vaxxer-in-chief to find a connection between 
autism and vaccines. Thats whats on the horizon.

Dr. David Gorski, an oncologist who has devotedly tracked the modern anti-
vaccine movement over the decades, calls the motivated trawling of large 
health databases by anti-vaccine activists dumpster diving. This activity is 
now mandated by the U. S. government.

The Geiers dumpster diving at the CDC, however, is just the tip of a 
disturbing iceberg. I havent even mentioned the chemical castration of 
autistic children.
The testosterone-mercury hypothesis

The Institute of Chronic Illnesses has its own institutional review board 
tasked with evaluating and approving or denying research projects involving 
human participants. In 2007, this board was denounced as consisting of David 
Geier; Mark Geier, his wife, and two of his business associates; and the 
mother of an autistic child who was a patient and research participant of 
Mark Geiers, and the mother of another child with autism who was a plaintiff 
in three pending vaccine-injury claims. It should go without saying that the 
scientist submitting a research proposal to an ethics committee and his 
buddies should not sit on said committee. It turns the process into a farce.

This denunciation was provoked by a paper the Geiers were in the process of 
having published and which detailed what they had been up to. It turns out 
that they believed that autism was caused by the mercury in vaccines, and 
that testosterone could somehow bind to mercury and make it harder to get rid 
of, creating so-called testosterone sheets inside the body. The Geiers were 
thus injecting autistic children with high doses of Lupron (also known as 
leuprorelin and leuprolide), which delays puberty, and then performing 
chelation therapy on them, where a substance is used to bind to toxins and 
help the body eliminate them. None of this is supported by good scientific 
evidence; this is dangerous pseudoscience in the service of an anti-vaccine 
ideology.

Pseudoscience has a patina of legitimacy, and sure enough the Geiers were 
running actual medical tests on their patients. Per an investigation by the 
Chicago Tribune, it was revealed that the Geiers would order over 50 
different tests, totalling up to $12,000. If one of the testosterone-related 
tests revealed a value outside of the reference range, Lupron injections 
would be considered at a daily dose 10 times the amount American doctors use 
to treat precocious puberty. Keep in mind that the more medical tests you 
run, the higher the odds that one of them will turn up something outside the 
normal range by chance alone. Tests arent perfect and normal is not always 
easy to define.

Eventually, the Geiers aberrant behaviour led to penalties. Dr. Mark Geiers 
medical licenses were suspended from every state in which he had one, and his 
son was charged in Maryland with practicing medicine without a license and 
fined $10,000.

While David Geier is clearly not qualified to be running a study for the U. 
S. government on the subject of vaccines, he is the ideal candidate for a 
regime that is institutionalizing pseudoscience within its borders.
Doubt is our product

The very media outlet that broke the story of David Geiers latest commission 
referred to him as a vaccine skeptic. Legacy media outlets are failing to 
meet the moment here, either because of fear of lawsuits or as a misguided 
attempt to appear neutral. RFK Jr received a similar sanewashing in the 
media. If we cant call anti-vaxxers anti-vaxxers, we will be unprepared for 
the outcome of their crusade.

The pieces of the puzzle are there for anyone to see. Agencies within the 
Department of Health and Human Serviceslike the FDA and the CDCare being 
gutted as you read these lines. The FDAs former commissioner said of his 
agency that it is finished. Dr. Peter Marks, the FDAs top vaccine regulator, 
was apparently forced out a few days ago, writing that Kennedy wanted 
subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.

Meanwhile, a fake CDC website (RealCDC. org) with clear ties to Kennedys 
anti-vaccine organization mixed good science with vaccine misinformation 
before it was exposed and shut down. This is straight out of the Merchants of 
Doubt playbook: doubt, as one tobacco executive wrote decades ago, is our 
product. You dont need to forcefully convince people that smoking is healthy; 
just make them doubt that we really know its harmful. The opposite can be 
done for vaccines.

Kennedy has announced a consolidation of divisions within his department and 
the creation of an Administration for a Healthy America, an Orwellian banner 
which echoes his Make America Healthy Again movement, itself a cargo cult 
fuelled by pseudoscience. Even more troubling is his desire to establish a 
vaccine injury agency within the CDC. Currently, people who think they have 
been injured by a mandated vaccine in the U. S. can receive compensation from 
the federal government. This was a way to ensure vaccines would continue to 
be available in the country after a wave of lawsuits in the 1980s. But will 
this system be maintained?

Kennedys institutionalization of anti-vaccine pseudosciencemeaning not just 
making the fringe mainstream but sanctioned by the governmentcould have a 
drastic impact on vaccine availability. Geiers study, born out of the square 
one fallacy where something well established is argued to be unknown, will 
assuredly show a link between vaccines and autism through bad research 
practices. This government-commissioned study will then be used to encourage 
lawsuits against vaccine manufacturersfrom which RFK Jr himself could 
financially benefitand here is where we arrive at the final piece of the 
puzzle. Right now, vaccine makers benefit from the federal no-fault system 
compensating people believed to have been injured by a vaccine (whether they 
can successfully prove it or not). This protection could be eliminated.

We could subsequently see vaccine manufacturers decide to stop making 
vaccines for the American market because the risk of unwarranted lawsuits 
would be too high. The so-called free market would effectively eliminate 
vaccines in the United States. This is ultimately what Kennedy wants. He has, 
on multiple occasions, called childhood vaccines a holocaust, and he wants to 
save America from this perceived cataclysm. The outcome of this renunciation 
of reality will be death and disability, and with international travel, there 
will be spillover.

What can we do in the face of this? As science communicator and immunologist 
Andrea Love wrote in her newsletter, Americans can call members of Congress, 
vote responsibly, and support unsanitized public health journalism.

All of us, Americans or not, will need to rely on uncorrupted sources of 
public health information moving forward. American government websites have 
been captured by science deniers. We need to turn to Canadian, British, 
European, and international websites instead. Even PubMed, the search engine 
of the biomedical literature, sits under the NIH and may not be spared from 
the U. S. ideological purge; I recommend the bookmarking of Europe PMC and 
OpenAlex as alternatives. In a move that echoes Isaac Asimovs Foundation, U. 
S. government websites before Trump returned to office are being preserved 
and made accessible to the public, through portals such as the Health Data 
Preservation Project, the CDC Restored, the Data Rescue Project, and the CDC. 
gov Archive Index.

The future looks bleak but to quote a famous fictional scientist, Life finds 
a way. So will science.

Take-home message:
- David Geier, who has neither a medical degree nor a graduate degree, has 
been hired by the U. S. government to do a study on whether vaccines cause 
autism, even though mountains of evidence have shown no such connection
- Geier and his father, the late Dr. Mark Geier, have a history of unethical 
research practices, including violating their own research protocol when 
accessing CDC data, and David Geier was charged with practicing medicine 
without a license in 2011
- This commissioned study is one more step toward eliminating vaccines from 
the United States, as RFK Jr has often called childhood vaccines a holocaust.


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