Big Brain Book Reviews: Turtles All The Way Down

A Contrarian View On The History Of Vaccines

Introducing Big Brain Book Reviews

My past posts have typically focused on geopolitics, including a long rant on the pharmaceutical companies and the vaccine circus. This is going to be the first post in an ongoing series of book reviews. I don’t have a reading list, but this will be a good way to put my thoughts on paper, and I figured Big Brain Book Reviews was just arrogant enough to get people’s attention in today’s world of short term attention spans and ADHD.

Turtles All The Way Down

I have bought a bunch of books in the last year and the most recent one I finished is Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth. The authors (who are from Israel) chose to remain anonymous because the vaccine debate is the third rail of medicine. While the book is certainly a dry read, I found it to be a fascinating deep dive into the foundations of vaccine science. You are probably wondering how Turtles are related to vaccine science.

According to a well-known story in the scientific community, an elderly woman approached a famous scientist shortly after he concluded his lecture on cosmology and the structure of the solar system:

“Your beautiful theory about the earth being round, and rotating around the sun, is very interesting, young man. Unfortunately, it is also very wrong. I have a better theory,” the woman told him.

“And what would that theory be, madam?” the scientist responded.

“Well, what you call ‘planet Earth’ is not round at all. Actually, it is kind of a large, flat disk that rests on the shoulders of four giant elephants.”

“And what do these four elephants stand on?” the scientist inquired.

“They stand on the back of a giant turtle,” the elderly woman answered.

“And what does the turtle stand on?” the scientist asked with an inquisitive grin.

“On another, bigger, turtle.”

“And what does the second turtle stand on?”

“Well, my dear man,” said the elderly woman with a victorious smile, “it’s turtles all the way down!”

That is a story from early in the book and it is a good way to visualize the history of vaccine science. This is definitely an oversimplification, but the book displays how the all of the major studies and clinical trials are built on previous studies and trials. Older vaccines that were (wrongly) determined to be safe are used as the measuring stick for newer vaccines in the approval process.

“Clinical trials of vaccines are rigged to hide their true (and high) rate of side effects, which means the medical establishment’s long standing claim that vaccines are safe has no scientific merit.”

While I’m not going to regurgitate the whole book, but the book also addresses other topics that have been starting to come up in the last couple years with COVID. This includes VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), which is designed to significantly under reports the injuries and side effects from vaccines. It also covers regulatory capture of government agencies, herd immunity, individual vaccines, and other topics.

I started looking into this topic due to the COVID circus, but my skepticism of the so-called COVID vaccine now extends to all vaccines. We are seeing a lot of parallels between the SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in the past and SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) today, and it isn’t a huge jump to connect the dots to vaccines. Take an hour to watch Died Suddenly and tell me there isn’t something going on with the clot shot and increasing death rates.

If you have the time, I would recommend reading the book. I learned a lot about the history of vaccines and the medical machine that is out of control. Surprisingly, the book doesn’t actually cover the COVID vaccines in much detail, but the older history is still important for parents deciding how they want to approach vaccines. I hadn’t given it much thought until the last couple years, but my future kids won’t be getting any vaccines. I was already skeptical of anything provided by the medical industry, but this book provides a contrarian viewpoint on the history of vaccines and is definitely worth a read in my opinion.