Why Have Vaccines Become a Religion

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

As more people awaken to the dangers of vaccines, they discover a persistent problem vaccine safety advocates have faced for decades: talking to vaccine zealots is like speaking to a brick wall. Regardless of the evidence presented, you cannot reach them — sometimes it feels like speaking to religious fanatics unwilling to consider the "blasphemy you're spewing forth"
This is deliberate, as vaccines have been enshrined as the holy water which baptizes you into the faith of Western medicine and became the "miracle" the superiority of modern medicine is based upon
Because of this faith and the relentless propaganda accompanying it, a series of absurd and contradictory arguments have been established to assert vaccines are "safe" which would never be accepted anywhere else
As a result, all vaccine research is designed around the assumption vaccines must be safe, and all regulatory decisions sharing this bias — thereby making it nearly impossible to prove a vaccine is harmful, regardless of how many people it kills or injures
This article will review the absurd fallacies used to defend mass vaccination, the unsound mindsets that produce them, and the incredible opportunity we have to at last shift this dysfunctional dynamic

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0:00.0	Are you being asked to accept beliefs about vaccines without seeing the underlying evidence for safety and effectiveness, and without permission to question them?
0:09.0	Welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. Stay informed with quick, easy-to-listen summaries of our latest articles, perfect for when you're on the go. No reading required.
0:19.0	Subscribe for free at Mercola.com for the latest health
0:22.0	insights. Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster. Today you'll hear
0:28.8	why some observers say vaccination functions like a civic religion inside modern medicine,
0:34.5	how this mindset shapes research and regulation, and what you can do to evaluate
0:39.3	claims for yourself.
0:40.3	I'm Alara Skye.
0:42.3	We'll outline three forces described in the article.
0:45.3	The social prestige and market power that modern medicine built around its successes,
0:50.3	common cognitive pitfalls that make people double down on shaky assumptions, and the way science can shift into dogma, what some call scientism, when it polices belief rather than invites scrutiny.
1:03.1	Let's start with prestige and power. Over the last century, medicine consolidated authority through organizations like the American Medical Association
1:12.5	and an explosion of profitable technologies. That story encouraged a mythology. Modern medicine
1:19.4	rescued you from the dark ages of infectious disease. Within that narrative, vaccines became
1:25.1	the proof of superiority, so questioning them threatens the status
1:29.1	hierarchy. The article argues that this is why some still credit vaccines for declines
1:34.5	in diseases that also track with sanitation and quarantine, noting the historic debates around
1:40.2	smallpox and polio. The second force is cognitive bias.
1:45.2	As the Dunning Kruger effect shows,
1:47.3	people who miss key knowledge often overestimate what they know.
1:51.2	In medicine, shortcuts form during training
1:53.3	and in the media, if A is true, then B must be true,
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