A Critical Look at “Dissolving Illusions” and “Turtles All the Way Down”
Vaccines are widely accepted as one of the most significant medical advancements in modern history. For decades, they’ve been promoted as safe, effective, and essential for public health. But what if there’s more to the story — a side few dare to question? Two books stand out in challenging the status quo and offering a radically different perspective: Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Turtles All the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth by anonymous Israeli researchers.
These books don’t ask you to be anti-vaccine — they ask you to think. To question. To demand transparency in a system increasingly dominated by pharmaceutical profit motives, regulatory capture, and media censorship. And if you’re a new parent, they may be the most important books you ever read.
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
By Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk
What’s in the Book?
Dissolving Illusions dives headfirst into the historical record — medical journals, mortality statistics, newspaper archives, and government data — to challenge the narrative that vaccines eradicated deadly diseases. Humphries, a nephrologist who turned whistleblower after observing vaccine injuries in her patients, partners with health researcher Roman Bystrianyk to paint a startlingly different picture.
Their central thesis: most of the decline in deaths from diseases like smallpox, measles, diphtheria, and whooping cough occurred long before vaccines were introduced — thanks largely to sanitation, clean water, better nutrition, and living conditions.
“Doctors and health authorities may believe they are saving lives with vaccines. But the historical data simply do not support that conclusion.”
The book includes:
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19th and 20th-century mortality charts showing disease deaths plummeting before vaccines
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Exposés on smallpox vaccine failures, including outbreaks in fully vaccinated populations
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Testimonies from doctors in the early 1900s warning of vaccine harms
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Historical records of adverse reactions and fatalities swept under the rug
Why It’s Important for New Parents
Parents are often told they’re selfish, irresponsible, or dangerous if they even hesitate about vaccinating their children. Dissolving Illusions offers a much-needed history lesson: not everything you’re told about “settled science” is true. Understanding the real timeline of disease decline allows parents to make informed decisions — not fear-based ones.
This book shows that public health improved before vaccines became widespread — and in some cases, diseases declined even when vaccines were not available at all.
Turtles All the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth
By Anonymous (Israel), English Translation by Mary Holland and Zoey O’Toole
What’s in the Book?
If Dissolving Illusions is a historical bombshell, Turtles All the Way Down is a scientific sledgehammer.
This meticulously footnoted book (over 1,200 references) was originally published in Hebrew in 2019 and later translated into English in 2022. It focuses exclusively on the flaws and omissions in the scientific studies used to license childhood vaccines.
The authors — a group of anonymous Israeli professionals in science, law, and medicine — argue that none of the vaccines in the childhood schedule were tested against a true placebo in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Instead, many were tested against another vaccine or a so-called “placebo” that included aluminum or other active ingredients.
It further uncovers:
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The use of short trial windows (as short as 4 days) to measure adverse events
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The manipulation of study designs to avoid detecting long-term harms
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The lack of rigorous oversight in post-marketing safety surveillance
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The absence of studies comparing fully vaccinated vs. fully unvaccinated populations
The title — Turtles All the Way Down — refers to a philosophical metaphor for infinite regress. The implication is that the vaccine narrative is built on a house of cards, where one flawed assumption props up another, indefinitely.
“No vaccine on the U.S. childhood schedule has ever been proven to be safe and effective through the kind of rigorous trials required for other pharmaceutical products.”
Why It’s Important for New Parents
Turtles All the Way Down forces you to look at the actual studies — or lack thereof. You’ll quickly discover that many vaccines would never pass the safety requirements demanded of new drugs. The book asks: Why are vaccines exempt from the rules? Why are we injecting newborns with multiple doses of biologics based on flawed research?
New parents are told, “Trust the science.” This book shows you what the science really says — and what it conveniently leaves out.
How Vaccines Became the Medical Standard
Vaccination began as a crude practice in the 1700s — often involving pus from infected people being inserted into others. Edward Jenner’s cowpox experiments gave rise to the first vaccine, but the practice wasn’t universally accepted. Over the next two centuries, vaccination gained legitimacy not through scientific consensus, but through government mandates, military coercion, and public health campaigns rooted in fear.
By the mid-20th century, vaccines became synonymous with medical progress. But it wasn’t because of superior outcomes. Instead:
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The CDC adopted aggressive vaccine schedules
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Liability for vaccine injury was removed in 1986 through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA)
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The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) quietly paid out billions to injured families, while shielding pharma companies from lawsuits
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The media, academic journals, and government regulators became intertwined with pharmaceutical funding
Today, questioning vaccines is often equated with heresy — not science.
The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Free Ride
Vaccines are often called the “sacred cow” of medicine. Why?
Because:
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Pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for injury or death from childhood vaccines
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Mandates guarantee a captive market — tens of millions of children required to receive dozens of doses
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Patent protections and government subsidies ensure profit margins remain sky-high
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“Public-private partnerships” blur the line between regulator and industry
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Media outlets receive billions in advertising from pharma companies, leading to biased coverage and censorship
There is no other product where:
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The customer bears all the risk
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The manufacturer bears none
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And governments enforce its use
Even with rising rates of autism, autoimmune disease, and chronic illness in children, no U.S. health agency is willing to fund a vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study — the kind of study that would definitively answer safety concerns.
Why?
Because they’re terrified of what they might find.
So What Should a New Parent Do?
Reading Dissolving Illusions and Turtles All the Way Down doesn’t mean you have to say no to all vaccines. But it should make you pause. Ask questions. Demand answers. These books encourage critical thinking in a world that increasingly punishes it.
Here’s what you can do:
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Educate yourself before your pediatrician visit
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Demand the full vaccine insert, not just the glossy handout
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Request delayed or alternative schedules
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Understand your state’s exemption laws
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Document adverse events and report them to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)
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Find a doctor who respects your right to informed consent
Informed consent means knowing:
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What’s in the vaccine
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What the real risks are
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What the alternatives are
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What happens if you say no
Anything less is not medicine — it’s coercion.
Final Thoughts: Read Before You Inject
We are not here to tell you what to believe — only to remind you that science is not consensus. Science is debate. It’s skepticism. It’s looking under every rock, even the ones people tell you not to touch.
Dissolving Illusions and Turtles All the Way Down don’t just challenge the vaccine narrative — they obliterate the illusion that it’s built on unshakable science.
In a world where chronic illness is skyrocketing and trust in public institutions is collapsing, these books are lifelines for parents who want to make conscious, informed decisions — not choices based on fear, shame, or pressure.
Your child deserves your best thinking. These two books will help you give it.
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