Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-founder and President of the National Vaccine Information Center, joins the program to dive deep into the vaccine issue. She believes society has reached a tipping point with vaccine reactions and that the industry and government needs to be much smarter for the sake of society and future generations.
Barbara has been quoted on the subject of vaccine safety and informed consent to vaccination in national news reports including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. Since 1993, she has debated more doctors on the subject of vaccination than any other American, including on NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Today Show,\u201d as well as on CNN, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America and National Public Radio. She has appeared in vaccine news reports on CBS \u201cSunday Morning News,\u201d ABC \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d ABC \u201cNightline,\u201d PBS \u201cFrontline\u201d and CBS \u201cThe Doctors.\u201d
You can see Barbara Loe Fisher in the recent Vaccines Revealed\xa0documentary series.
Learn more about her organization at www.NVIC.org
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Barbara Loe Fisher Biography:
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\u2019s leading non-medical, consumer advocacy experts on the subject
She is co-author of the seminal book DPT: A Shot in the Dark (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985) and author of The Consumer's Guide to Childhood Vaccines (1997); Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic (2008) and Reforming Vaccine Policy & Law: A Guide (2014) and The Emerging Risks of Live Virus and Virus Vectored Vaccines: Vaccine Strain Virus Infection, Shedding and Transmission (2014). She is a video commentator for the NVIC Newsletter and Mercola Newsletter and a blogger at www.VaccineAwakening.blogspot.com. Her long public record of vaccine safety and informed consent advocacy was featured in the 2011 award winning film documentary THE GREATER GOOD.
Her 1985 book, DPT: A Shot in the Dark, which she co-authored with Harris Coulter, Ph.D., was the first major, well documented critique of America's mass vaccination system calling for safety reforms and the right to informed consent to vaccination. She worked with Congress to include vaccine safety provisions in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and with parents of vaccine injured children to bring the issue of vaccine safety to public attention, including leading demonstrations at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the White House in 1986.
She conducted research and developed a comprehensive library on childhood infectious diseases, vaccines and federal vaccine research, regulation and policymaking that serves as the foundation for information disseminated by NVIC. She coordinated five scientific conferences, including the 1989 International Scientific Workshop on Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines and four International Public Co...