DR BOB SEARS DISCUSSES ‘VACCINES AND THE DISEASES THEY TARGET’

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears joins Del to unpack ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine debate, the near-total absence of long-term safety data for newborn vaccination, and why the U.S. is an outlier in giving this shot on day one of life. He discusses the Physicians for Informed Consent’s new Silver Book “Vaccines and the Diseases They Target”, designed to give doctors and parents clear, side-by-side numbers on disease risk and vaccine risk so real informed consent can finally happen.

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0:00.0	Another hero that I met very, very early on before I ever even made fax and facts.
0:06.5	The fax was just an idea. I was beginning to do the research. I just met Andrew Wakefield,
0:10.9	but I was standing, you know, protesting SB 277 in California was going to take away these exact rights
0:16.6	to forcibly vaccinate every child in California. And I was looking at that situation with my brand new baby who was unvaccinated. And I thought, this is the end of the world as I know it. Who's going to speak for me? Who will stand for me? Well, there was one doctor that was doing that. His name was Bob Sears. And if you don't know who he is, watch this. Dr. Bob Sears. Dr. Bob Sears.
0:40.3	Dr. Bob Sears.
0:41.3	The most beloved and most hated pediatrician in the world.
0:44.3	An expert who has been on the front lines of pediatric care.
0:47.3	A doctor and a firm believer in vaccine choice.
0:51.3	He is the best-selling author of tons of book like The Vaccine Book, Making an Educated
0:56.4	Decision for Your Child.
0:57.7	My dad was a pediatrician, so I watched him growing up and he really enjoyed his work,
1:02.8	so I thought I would want to be a doctor as well.
1:05.4	Back in the 90s, I actually discovered there was one vaccine that was actually pretty dangerous
1:10.3	that they ended up taking off the market.
1:12.6	So I decided to dig into the Georgetown library and I uncovered so much research about this one vaccine.
1:18.6	And so it made me realize the medical community sometimes is capable of covering something up when there's a problem.
1:24.6	I kind of felt like my world was shattered. You know, how can the ivory tower of the CDC and the FDA let this slip through the cracks? That basically
1:35.4	opened my eyes. In my office, Don, it's not so much, you know, about, you know, vaccines and autism
1:40.7	as it parents just don't want to see the baby suffer any sort of bad vaccine reaction.
1:46.0	Parents are afraid that their baby will be one of those statistics.
1:50.0	Probably 99% of doctors in California are now scared to even write any medical excuses from vaccines for any patients
1:58.0	because they're seeing that the medical board is coming down on us.
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