DarkHorse Podcast Hey Siri, why are American kids so sick? Aaron Siri on DarkHorse
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Dec 24, 2025 In this engaging conversation, Aaron Siri, a civil rights attorney and author focused on vaccine issues, dives deep into the childhood vaccine schedule and its evolution over the decades. He discusses the dramatic increase in vaccine doses since the 1980s and critiques the lack of placebo-controlled trials for childhood vaccines. Siri also addresses concerns about the potential long-term health impacts of these vaccines and explores the implications of the 1986 liability shield on vaccine safety. Additionally, he examines historical vaccine-related controversies and the need for better transparency and informed consent.
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Delaying Vaccines As A Parental Strategy
- Bret recounts delaying infant vaccines to let development progress before exposure.
- He later judged that approach insufficient given gaps in safety testing.
No Placebo-Controlled Licensure
- Aaron Siri states no routine injected childhood vaccine was licensed via placebo-controlled trials.
- He highlights control-vaccine chaining that can hide harms and undermine safety claims.
Chained Controls Mask Serious Events
- Pneumococcal vaccine trials compared experimental vaccines and monitored safety briefly, showing ~7–9% serious adverse events.
- Siri argues similar adverse-event rates across chained trials mask true baseline risk.
