Those of you who have been with me a long time know I never play down influenza. It’s a very severe disease that in former times would “cull” the elderly and sickly. Old folks were glad to get through the winter and heaved a sigh of relief when the spring warmth came.
If you ever get a genuine dose, you’ll know it. You won’t need a lab test to tell you it was the real deal!
But here’s the shocking truth: these days “flu” so-called is just a tool, used to manipulate the public and stampede them into getting loaded with flu shots. Plenty of lies and flim flam go into the pot, just in case there is hesitancy. That wouldn’t do. We need those nationwide vaccination campaigns; it’s part of the annual Big Pharma budget!
There are, in fact, over 200 viruses (and even some bacteria) that cause influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI), all producing the same or similar symptoms (fever, headache, aches and pains, cough and runny noses). Without laboratory tests, doctors cannot tell real flu from ILI. Both last for days and only rarely lead to death or serious illness. At best, vaccines might be effective against only Influenza A and B, which represent about 10% of all circulating viruses.
Unfortunately, flu shots are just about worthless. Oh sure, they can trot out reams of spun figures to show how crucial it is to get your annual shot. But does it really do any good? And is it really as safe as they claim; that even children and babies should get “harmless” flu shots?
I’ll start by addressing the second question first:
“… the swine-flu vaccination program was one of its (CDC) greatest blunders…It all began in 1976 when CDC scientists saw that a virus involved in a flu attack outbreak at Fort Dix, N.J., was similar to the swine-flu virus that killed 500,000 Americans in 1918. Health officials immediately launched a 100-million dollar program to immunize every American. But the expected epidemic never materialized, and the vaccine led to partial paralysis in 532 people. There were 32 deaths.”1 So much for the continuous chant that vaccines are “safe”. So what about “effective”?
The provisional results are in for last season’s flu vaccine effectiveness (winter 2025-2026). It was RUBBISH! Though of course that’s not what they told us.
Based on U.S. surveillance network data from September 2025 to February 2026, estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) rates against influenza A- and influenza B-related outpatient visits for adults ranged from 22% to 34%, which is absolutely dismal, and 30% to 41% for those ages 65 and older. That’s the group they claim that the vaccine is most needed for and does the most good! 30 – 40% effective? Nah. I don’t think so.
Among children and adolescents ages 6 months to 17 years, VE rates against outpatient visits ranged from 38% to 41%, hardly impressive. “These findings support CDC’s recommendation for annual influenza vaccination,” they concluded.2
No they absolutely do NOT! 22-30% protection? That’s not effective in my book.
Did you know that science says that it takes 71 people to be vaccinated against flu, to prevent even one case and 29 healthy adults need to be vaccinated to prevent one of them experiencing an ILI? No, I suppose not, since the medical industry doesn’t WANT you to know!
Add this…
In adults ages 65 and older, with standard-dose inactivated influenza vaccines, the effectiveness was just 16%. And that’s the age group they claim it does the most good!
The whole thing remains a sham because they make no attempt to differentiate influenza infection and other viruses and bacteria that cause an influenza-like illness. The truth when you get right down to it is that rates of influenza are not measured, just claimed.
Most famously, in the 2009 outbreak of H1N1 flu, journalist Sharyl Attkison discovered that the CDC was exaggerating and then finally faking their results. The CDC stopped recommending lab tests for H1N1 in the summer of 2009, advising doctors to count any “flu-like” illness as swine flu, which led to ridiculously high inaccurate counts.
Attkisson quoted experts like Dr. Bernadine Healy, who noted the pandemic was “among the mildest, rated a category 1, similar in ferocity to ordinary seasonal flu,” rather than the high-mortality pandemic originally projected.
It is widely held that stopping actual lab testing for flu was because the results were coming back largely negative, thus contradicting the official (government and Big Pharma) narrative of a massive and dangerous H1N1 flu pandemic.
So who do you trust? Follow the science, they say. But where’s the science?
Try this: a recent study showed that getting a flu shot likely increased your chances of getting a flu-like illness. I’ll write that again:
GETTING A FLU SHOT INCREASED YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING A FLU-LIKE ILLNESS.
This was pre-published in a 2025 Cleveland Clinic report on a cohort of 53,402 employees. Researchers found vaccinated workers had a statistically significant 27% higher risk of contracting influenza! You won’t find that being read out by the news anchors on CNN or CNBC!3
This had already been shown in an earlier study among Canadian workers, in which receiving a flu shot in 2009 INCREASED your chances of getting the H1N1 flu!4
The Bottom Line
The truth is that science does NOT support mass flu vaccination. The Cochrane database, which is the fundamental tool of scientific statistical analysis, does not contain EVEN ONE well-run, industry standard research paper showing unequivocally that the flu shot works well.
On the contrary, digging into these reviews exposes a conspicuous absence of conclusive evidence as to the effectiveness of influenza vaccines in either children under 2, healthy adults, the elderly, or healthcare workers who care for the elderly.
For example, here is the conclusion of the review titled, “Vaccines for preventing seasonal influenza and its complications in people aged 65 or older.”
“The available evidence is of poor quality and provides no guidance regarding the safety, efficacy or effectiveness of influenza vaccines for people aged 65 years or older. To resolve the uncertainty, an adequately powered publicly-funded randomized, placebo-controlled trial run over several seasons should be undertaken.”
Your science is lousy and the product doesn’t work? No problem, hold a national media fest!!
Not what you hear from the media, is it? Such a trial has never been carried out! Well, of course it’s easier and cheaper to scare people with stories than run an expensive scientific study (especially if you know in advance your treatment doesn’t really work!)
Your science is lousy and the product doesn’t work? No problem, hold a national media fest!!
Notably in the Cochrane database, there was only one study of safety and effectiveness in children under two, which showed the efficacy of inactivated vaccine was similar to placebo. In terms of safety an analysis of safety outcome data was not feasible, the writers said. “Extensive evidence of reporting bias of safety outcomes from trials of live attenuated vaccines impeded meaningful analysis.”
Despite that, the industry still calls for children to be vaccinated from the age of 6 months.5
Ker-ching!
This is deliberate misinformation on a vast scale, perpetrated by the government lackeys in cahoots with Big Pharma.
I’m not anti-vax, as my readers know, but I am anti-B*S*, especially when it’s official spinning. Snake oil merchants lie to sell their wares. We all know that. But the government should never be in the position of helping them to do so.
Was that a sniff? Yes, a sniff of disdain, not the start of a flu!!
To Your Good Health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor
References:
- U.S. News and World Report, Joseph Carey, October 14, 1985, p. 70, “How Medical Sleuths Track Killer Diseases.”
- https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/75/wr/mm7509a2.htm
- Shrestha, Nabin K., et al. “Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024–2025 Respiratory Viral Season.” Preprint, Cleveland Clinic, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.20.25324343
- PLoS Med. 2010;7(4):e1000258. Epub 2010 Apr 6. PMID: 20386731
- Altern Ther Health Med. 2009 Sep-Oct;15(5):44-6. PMID: 18425905
