Dr. Joel Gator Warsh is a board-certified pediatrician and the author of his new book, Between a Shot and a Hard Place: Tackling Difficult Vaccine Questions with Balance, Data, and Clarity. We discuss the role of vaccines in eradicating deadly diseases, the hidden gaps in vaccine safety testing, liability immunity, what we know and don’t know about autism, needed studies to establish cumulative safety, censorship during COVID, mRNA vaccines, RFK Jr. and MAHA, and much more.

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:02:50) – Gator

(00:03:24) – Qualifications & background

(00:09:02) – How to broach the topic of vaccines

(00:13:02) – Have vaccines eradicated diseases?

(00:16:50) – Vaccine safety testing

(00:20:50) – Hep B & informed consent

(00:24:42) – Placebo testing & relative safety

(00:28:25) – Liability immunity & the Boeing analogy

(00:33:50) – Hesitancy

(00:35:54) – Cumulative risks

(00:38:28) – Studies we need to establish safety

(00:39:50) – Epidemiology & research bias

(00:50:18) – Autism

(00:53:12) – How do we change?

(00:55:40) – Covid & mRNA vaccines

(01:05:39) – Censorship during COVID

(01:09:19) – Advertising & lobbying

(01:12:22) – Conflicts of interest & self-regulation

(01:14:13) – Advertising continued

(01:17:51) – RFK Jr. & MAHA

(01:22:24) – Chronic disease

(01:24:40) – What’s next for Dr. Gator

(01:25:40) – Final vaccine questions

(01:29:11) – Two things we need

(01:30:25) – Main takeaway

(01:31:10) – Dr. Gator’s book