The Vaccine Conversation with Melissa and Dr. Bob
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ep. 27 - Interview with Dr. Tom Cowan Part 1: A New Way to Look at Childhood Illness
02 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What if our kids are actually supposed to catch certain febrile illnesses in childhood? What if these bothersome but almost-always harmless diseases h...
Ep. 26 - CDC Found to Have Inappropriate Relationships with Industry
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we discuss a recent article that exposes the conflicts of interest between the Centers for Disease Control and Coca-Cola. We reveal how the beve...
Ep. 25 - Religious Exemptions To Vaccination: Is This Constitutional Freedom Going Away?
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion for all Americans. But what about religious reasons for opting out of medical care? Three States ha...
Ep. 24 - NY Times Article: How to Inoculate Against Anti-Vaxxers
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The media continues to paint advocates for vaccine safety in a negative light and develops creative new strategies to convince people that vaccines sh...
Ep. 23 - Melissa and Dr. Bob On The Middle Ground Show
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you put three pro-vaxxers in the same room with three vaccine safety advocates? We were willing to find out when they filmed this ep...
Ep. 22 - How to Get Involved with Legislation with Dawn Richardson from NVIC
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Measles hysteria + dozens of legislative bills unveiled across the country to mandate more vaccines for children and reduce or eliminate exemptions. I...
Ep. 21 - Our Stories
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We share our personal stories about how we entered the Informed Consent movement. Dr. Bob talks about what happened in his medical school years that b...
Ep. 20 - Measles: The Disease and the Vaccine
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is measles a harmless childhood disease for most kids, or is it as dangerous as the media portrays? Is it truly on the rise, or are the current outbre...
Ep. 19 - Why Mandatory Vaccine Laws are Unnecessary, Unethical, and Won't Even Work
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, California became the first state in many decades to make vaccines mandatory for all schoolchildren, joining Mississippi and West Vir...
Ep. 18 - Breastfeeding and How It Helps Prevent Infectious Disease
20 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows there are unending benefits to breastfeeding, but have you ever thought about how breastfeeding relates to the vaccine conversation? We...
Ep. 17 - Do Vaccines Actually Make You Healthier?
12 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While vaccines may provide some artificially-induced protection from specific infectious diseases, do they actually make you a healthier person? And w...
Ep. 16 - Interview with JB Handley Pt 2: Did Vaccines Really Save Humanity?
06 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our conversation with JB Handley and challenge the widely-held belief that vaccines alone are responsible for reducing and eliminating inf...
Ep. 15 - Interview with JB Handley Pt 1: Is the Autism Epidemic Real?
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we introduce JB Handley and his new book, How to End the Autism Epidemic, and explore how the mainstream medical community has spent the last tw...
Ep. 14 - Pneumococcal: the Disease and the Vaccine
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our series highlighting individual diseases we currently vaccinate for, today we cover pneumococcal disease. We’ll tell you just how common it is...
Ep. 13 - Natural Herd Immunity Vs. Artificial Vaccine-Induced Immunity
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard it is critical for our society to maintain herd immunity to keep the public from experiencing major disease outbreaks. But is this real...
Ep. 12 - How Vaccines Are Tested To Measure Safety
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder what type of safety testing vaccines go through before they are released to the public? Today we break down the vaccine safety research sy...
Ep. 11 - Pertussis (Whooping Cough): the Disease and the Vaccine
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today we focus on whooping cough, one of the most common diseases that still spreads around despite high vaccination rates. We’ll tell you why this ...
Ep. 10 - Why are More Highly Educated People More Likely to Question Vaccines?
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Going against the grain is usually met with resistance. In today’s society, people question everything — yet when you do it with vaccines, you’r...
Ep. 9 - Overview of Vaccines and Diseases for Infants - Part 1: 0-6 months old
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just how common and deadly are the diseases we vaccinate all new babies for? In this episode, we discuss the 9 diseases that babies get vaccines for i...
Ep. 8 - The Flu Vaccine Debate - Part 2
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The flu vaccine is the least effective vaccine on the CDC schedule, yet it has the highest amount of advertising and media hype compared to all other ...
Ep. 7 - The Flu Vaccine Debate - Part 1
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just how common and deadly is the flu? Does the media tell the truth when reporting flu risks? Is the flu vaccine actually safe or effective? What abo...
Ep. 6 - Media, Measles, and Misinformation
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is measles really on the rise, and is it really the deadly disease the media now spins it to be? We’ll explore the actual risks of measles, how to p...
Ep. 5 - Attacking Medical Exemptions?
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we break down a new study on California vaccine medical exemptions post SB277. We will review and question the results in detail, and shine...
Ep. 4 - Informed Consent - Are We Really Getting It?
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Informed consent is one of the pillars of modern medicine. There is a Federal law that mandates every patient be informed about all the risks of vac...
Ep. 3 - The Vaccine Schedule - 69 Doses and Rising
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Getting your child vaccinated today is more than “just a few shots." We’ll explore how the vaccine schedule has skyrocketed to 69 doses — more t...
Ep. 2 - Vaccine Media Sound Bites
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You hear it all the time: “Vaccines are safe and effective!” It’s in every news broadcast and every news article, 100% of the time. And what abo...
Ep. 1 - Why We Are Doing This
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Vaccine Conversation! When a topic as complex as vaccines — a medical intervention that affects each individual differently — becom...