620. The Fight for Vaccine Truth: Banned, Blacklisted, and Still Speaking Out w/ Andrew Wakefield
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Andrew Wakefield, physician-turned-filmmaker and one of the most controversial voices in modern medicine. From his early days as a gastroenterologist in the UK to becoming an outspoken critic of vaccine policy, Andy shares the story of how listening to parents and pursuing uncomfortable questions about children’s health ultimately cost him his profession, country, and medical license. Andy and I discuss the rise in autism diagnoses, the explosion of the vaccine schedule, and the erosion of public trust in health authorities—alongside the role of media, censorship, and film in shaping public awareness.
Whether you agree with him or not, Andy’s perspective challenges us to confront uncomfortable questions about integrity, power, and responsibility in medicine. It’s a conversation about courage, conviction, and what it takes to speak out when the stakes are at their highest. Visit protocol7.movie and use code LUKE10 to save 10% on merch.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:00) From London to Texas: The Turning Point in Andy’s Career
(00:11:16) Autism Rates, Whistleblowers, & Becoming a Filmmaker
(00:26:42) Protocol 7, Corporate Fraud, & the Future of Vaccines
(00:42:58) Vaccine Hesitancy, Censorship, & the Psychology of Compliance
(00:56:41) Polio, Politics, & the Future of Vaccine Awareness
(01:17:54) Autism, Communication, & Hidden Human Potential
(01:39:13) Censorship, Resilience, & Lessons from the Stars
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| 0:00.0 | Put them in a home, have another child and move on. Forget about them. I mean, this was the perception of autism at the time. |
| 0:06.3 | But if it makes you feel better mentally, go ahead. I'm just like, this is where we are, man. This guy's an MD. |
| 0:12.1 | It's absolutely insane that they get away with this. And I'm not overstating this, but from my perspective, we're in the middle of a genocide. |
| 0:19.3 | And people are just oblivious. It's crazy to me. |
| 0:22.9 | When I came to realize that actually this wasn't about me at all, it was about these children, |
| 0:27.5 | and these children had no voice, so someone has got to be that voice for them, not just their |
| 0:32.4 | parents, but someone who was sufficiently qualified to represent them in a scientific arena, |
| 0:38.5 | a public health arena. |
| 0:44.8 | It's absolutely an exquisite representation of what natural herd immunity is, how powerful it is, |
| 0:50.4 | and how insignificant in the declining mortality the vaccine actually was. |
| 0:54.1 | They don't show you this graph because they don't really want you to see it or understand it. |
| 1:01.3 | Andy, you have an accent that's not reminiscent of most people that I meet in Texas. So how did you end up here and when? Well, I obviously, I'm British. I was born in the west of England, and I |
| 1:10.0 | went to medical school, St. Marius Hospital Medical |
| 1:13.8 | School, part of the University of London in 1976, graduated in 1981, became a fellow of the Royal |
| 1:20.8 | College of Surgeons and pathologists and was really running a big research team at the Royal Free Hospital, |
| 1:28.7 | also part of the University of London Teaching Hospital. |
| 1:31.4 | And it was never going to go to America. |
| 1:34.2 | You know, I might travel there, but nah, |
| 1:36.0 | no, no, who would these strange American people |
| 1:38.7 | and had all kinds of things about them. |
| 1:41.5 | And I then fell foul of the system because parents called me. |
| 1:49.0 | I got a call, I think. |
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