The Vaccination Station

16/06/2026

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16/06/2026

It's a grift. It's always a grift.

--In October 2025, Holdren said she paid a clinic $12,500 for the unapproved stem cell treatment. She said she knows there is no “cure” for autism, but she's determined to help her son in any way she can.

“He actually looks at us and not through us, and that's huge for us,” she said of the small improvements she claims her son has shown after the treatment.

“We can cut his hair without him freaking out. That may sound little, but when you have to wrangle an alligator to clip his nails, that's big things.”

However, seven months after the injections, Holdren said Landyn's aggressive behavior has worsened. So, she is now reportedly planning to spend $15,000 on a second stem cell dose later this month.

🔗: bit.ly/43xMZnG

Children nationwide — some as young as 18 months old — have reportedly been injected with stem cells derived from umbilical cords in an unauthorized attempt to treat autism.

15/06/2026

Authors: Gradel Muyisa and Benoit Nyemba.

--NIZI, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 14 (Reuters) - After the Kpangba displacement camp ​became the first in this part of war-torn Congo to record deaths from Ebola two weeks ago, health ‌workers rushed to trace those who had come into contact with the deceased to break chains of transmission.

But the workers - from the provincial health ministry, the World Health Organization and other aid agencies - were forced away by angry locals who denied that the two women had died from Ebola, said ​Jean-Claude Lonzama, the chief doctor for the local health zone of Nizi, a heavily populated mining area.

After the Kpangba displacement camp ​became the first in this part of war-torn Congo to record deaths from Ebola two weeks ago, health ‌workers rushed to trace those who had come into contact with the deceased to break chains of transmission.

15/06/2026

Conspiracy theorist logic collapses under the slightest pressure.

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14/06/2026

Sources:

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/831

https://www.asha.org/policy/ps2018-00351

https://www.asha.org/SLP/Cautions-Against-Use-of-FC-and-RPM-Widely-Shared

https://researchautism.org/blog/a-review-of-the-soma-rapid-prompt-method

https://www.aaidd.org/news-policy/policy/position-statements-2/facilitated-communication-and-rapid-prompting-method

https://asid.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sept-2024-Final-Position-Statement-on-FC-and-RPM-13-July-202475.pdf

13/06/2026

12/06/2026

Author: Amy Maxmen.

--Ben Dowse hadn’t expected to treat measles when he became a doctor, but there he was, examining a newborn exposed to the virus in the womb.

The infected mother had given birth just hours earlier. The hospital had alerted Dowse to the case before delivery, and he’d braced himself for the worst.

Dowse wore a full-body protective suit with a plastic face mask.

As a pediatrician in southern Utah, he couldn’t risk getting even a mild infection, because many of his patients are babies too young for measles vaccines or children whose parents choose not to protect them with immunizations.

“I went in looking like a scientist in E.T.,” he said.

Measles can cause brain damage, deafness, or death in newborns. If the baby entered the world with a measles rash and fever, Dowse was prepared to give the infant a spinal tap to assess the risk of neurological damage.

Luckily, flushed and crying, the baby looked healthy. To keep it that way, Dowse wanted to inject the baby with concentrated antibodies against the measles virus.

To his surprise, the parents objected, promising to give their child “all kinds of vitamin A,” Dowse said.

He begged them not to, saying, “You can’t see it on the surface, but the baby’s body is fighting the measles.” They were afraid of vaccines, so Dowse explained that antibodies were different and that they would stop measles from replicating in the infant.

“That shot is going to basically give the baby ammo to fight,” Dowse said.

The parents relented. A couple of days later, they left the hospital with a child who had narrowly skirted an infection that killed many thousands of babies a century ago.

Nonetheless, Dowse said he doubted they would be returning for childhood vaccinations to protect their baby against a bevy of illnesses.

Like more than a dozen Utah doctors and health officials who spoke with KFF Health News, Dowse has adjusted his expectations.

https://www.wired.com/story/anguished-parents-crying-doctors-life-amid-utahs-measles-outbreak/

https://archive.md/mBBRU

12/06/2026

The impact of vaccines is undeniable.

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11/06/2026

Even before the modern era, if you survived childhood you had a good chance of living for ~60 years. But high infant mortality rates massively reduced average human life expectancy.

Vaccines changed this.