vaccine, or one demographic. It was widespread. It was allergic conditions, gastrointestinal collapse, neurological regression, chronic infections, autoimmune flares, seizures, screaming fits, paralysis—each story heartbreakingly similar despite a different affliction, each child a casualty in a system that insisted everything was fine. All of their injuries occurring after a vaccination.
I saw the iron lung in a new form. Not as a giant metal cylinder, but as a small box breathing air through a tube in a teenage boy’s throat after a routine HPV vaccination left him paralyzed. I watched mothers describe nights spent upright for months, so their vomiting children wouldn’t choke to death in their sleep. I watched fathers break down. They weren’t looking for pity. They wanted someone with any authority to look them in the eyes and admit that their children mattered.
I had stumbled onto something so vast, so unspoken, so systematically denied, that the only honest reaction was to dig deeper. To investigate. To demand answers.
And that is what eventually put me across the table from a man named Dr. Marcus Zervos.
The Question No One
Would Touch
For years, we had asked one simple question:
“Why won’t they compare vaccinated children to completely unvaccinated children?”
It is the most obvious question in medicine. If vaccines make children healthier, then the vaccinated should be healthier. Full stop. Mainstream medicine dismissed the idea as unethical, impossible, or unnecessary. No government agency in the world, not the U.S., not the U.K., not Australia, not Canada, had ever produced this comparison. The CDC, instead of doing the study, published a white paper on how one might theoretically do it someday. And then didn’t do it.
But independent scientists? Homeschool cohorts? Small retrospective groups? They occasionally published comparisons, and the results were always alarming. The vaccinated cohort was always unhealthier than the unvaccinated. Even still, the orthodox response was the same: “The cohort is too small, the design imperfect. This wasn’t done by a major institution.”
Fine, I thought. Then let a major institution do it. And then, during the Vaxxed tour, my phone rang. The voice on the other end of the line said:
“I know the head of infectious disease at Henry Ford Health. His name is Dr. Marcus Zervos. Would you like to meet him?”
Henry Ford is one of the most reputable research institutions in America. Zervos had just helped lead the scientific effort during the Flint water crisis. That was a genuine public health disaster requiring courage to challenge state authorities.
So yes—yes, I wanted to meet him.
Detroit, 2016: The Moment the Ground Shifted
We met in a restaurant in Michigan. We talked about Vaxxed. He told me he found it compelling. But then he said something that stunned me.
He said, and I paraphrase, “You’ve been saying there are no proper safety studies for childhood vaccines. So I looked into it myself. I’m shocked to tell you this, but you’re right. The proper safety studies haven’t been done.”
This was not a fringe physician. This was not a blogger. This was the head of infectious disease at a major American research institution. And he was willing to admit, plainly, that the gold-standard randomized, placebo-controlled trials had not been done for childhood vaccines.
So I asked him the only logical next question:
“Would you do a vaccinated versus unvaccinated study?”
He said he would do it.
I remember walking out of that dinner electrified. If he did this study through Henry Ford’s enormous database, it could be the most important vaccine safety study ever conducted on American soil.
But then came the waiting. One year.
Then two.
Then four.
Until in 2020, I finally learned the truth:
The study had been completed, but he and his co-authors refused to submit it for publication.
I knew then what I had to do.
I booked a ticket to Michigan. And I brought a hidden camera. We met for dinner.
When I asked him why he wouldn’t publish it, he acknowledged it showed important differences. Real differences. Differences in chronic disease. Autoimmune disease. Neurodevelopmental disorders. Asthma. Allergies.
The vaccinated children were far sicker. The unvaccinated children were dramatically healthier.
And then Zervos said the quiet part out loud: “Publishing something like that…
I might as well retire. I’d be finished.”
His reason for not submitting it for publication wasn’t a dispute with the methodology. He wasn’t disputing the data. He was saying he was worried about surviving professionally.
At that moment, I felt something break. Not in him, but in me.
This shouldn’t have been about a man's academic discomfort. This was about children and families. A nation collapsing under chronic illness.
And we had a study, right there, on the table, that could potentially explain why. Traveling with Vaxxed taught me two things I can never unknow:
You cannot look into the eyes of thousands of parents and tell them they imagined these injuries. You cannot watch a generation of sick children and pretend the explosion happened in a vacuum.
When scientists are afraid to publish findings because they’ll “be finished,” science is dead. When major agencies refuse to run a straightforward comparison study, transparency is dead. When public health defends its narrative more fiercely than it defends children, morality is dead.
Now, with Robert Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of HHS, we have a chance to make things right. However, he will need support from a loud and well-informed public. This film is the perfect tool to start that journey for someone new, and a sledgehammer for someone in the know.
You can watch and download the film for free at http://AnInconvenientStudy.com.
And this is why I continue the work.
This is why An Inconvenient Study exists.