Confronting a Pair of Medical Phd. Shock Jocks

Before I introduce my next two “guests,” I want to be serious with you, and with myself, so I’ll start with a long prologue.  Some of it repeats things I’ve written in the past.

The reason I wrote my book Will Vaccines Be the End of Us?, and followed it up with this website, is because I believe that one or more of the many vaccinations (between 15 and 20) I got spread out over six years in the 1980s, as a preventive measure against various tropical diseases when I traveled around Africa, Asia and South America, impaired my fertility – an unquantified side effect listed in several vaccine product inserts that most doctors don’t read –  which began a sequence of events that ended in the premature birth of my twin children, Scott and Mary, who are disabled for life.  Up until the age of 33, I had no idea that there is, and always has been, a dark side to the vaccine story.  It’s actually a very long and detailed controversy, which I studied in my spare time for thirty years.  I wrote my book and created my website to alert others, future parents in particular, to the inherent risks of all vaccines.  I tell my story in the opening pages of my book.

I’ll expound here on an important point I made in my book.  With such an emotionally charged issue as vaccines, there’s almost never anything gained by trying to change someone’s mind, if he or she has strong feelings on the issue, because you’re dealing with two fundamentally different kinds of people.  Logic does not apply.  Who you are – your genetic make-up and what you have learned or been conditioned to believe – is all that matters.  It would be the same as if a staunch defender of the Second Amendment was facing someone who wants to ban all gun ownership.  You’re dealing with two completely different mindsets.  There’s no use trying to have a calm debate.     

Losing $30,000 would be a huge hit for me, but having studied every aspect of vaccines for as long as I have, and understanding human nature, I’m confident that no one will ever show me a vaccine developer who was successful, whereas many whose careers I’ve studied were not only failures but miscreants who often tested their dangerous products on people as if they were laboratory mice.  As I’ve written in the past, offering thirty grand is an effective way of getting my point across, because it instantly exposes these vaccine zealots, who are so sure of themselves, as fools who have never even studied the subject they preach about.  That’s why most of them don’t reply, as you can see from my posts on this page; they suddenly realize that they don’t have a leg to stand on.  If they think they do, I let them have their say.

Vaccination is a medical dogma, and like all dogmas, it falls apart upon close examination, and when challenged, its proponents go silent, or go haywire.  Clinging to dogmas – entrenched falsehoods that most people believe is the truth – has always been part of the human condition.  You won’t get burned at the stake these days, which was the fate of thousands of heretics when the Roman Catholic Church held political power in Europe, but you’ll be ridiculed, called all kinds of names, and if you’re a rare, dissenting doctor, you’ll likely have your medical license revoked.

In any case, for the purpose of this reward offer, I thought it might be better to begin targeting the heavy hitters, the “experts” on vaccinology and its spinoffs.  While surfing the net, I happened to come across a journal called Vaccine, which led to a photo of its editor-in-chief, a woman named Angela Rasmussen, who has her own website, angelarasmussen.org.  My first thought was Hmm, she’s rather attractive, blonde hair, blue eyes – it’s not often that you see a pretty face among vaccine pushers.  She is an American, now living in Canada.  The first thing I did, before checking out her website and Substack page, was listen to a podcast interview she did on February 24, 2026 with a podiatrist in Florida named Eric Lullove.  Both appear to be around 45 years old.  My first impression was that she was kind of a fun, chatty airhead.  Then, around the fourteen minute mark, she referred to some new people on ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices), which operates under the CDC, as “fucking nuts” because they don’t toe the vaccine line.  This kind of language continued intermittently throughout the interview, with she and Dr. Lullove, both pumped full of arrogant certainty about everything, seemingly trying to outdo each other.  I actually picked up a few expressions I’d never heard before, like “fuck stick,” “twat head,” and “dick wad.”  They struck me as a pair of medical shock jocks, on the level of Howard Stern – just as ignorant and just as nauseating.  A perusal of Dr. Rasmussen’s articles convinced me that she does indeed have an incurable case of potty mouth, which also colors her political opinions, which are decidedly to the left.  In her own words, if you’re a “fascist” or a “bigot,” she wants you to “fuck off.” 

Now I have no problem with the occasional use of profanity, if it reflects how people, myself included, actually talk, and when it comes in handy in speech or in writing to emphasize a point.  But it turns me off when people, especially women, are so cavalier about flinging around four-letter words.  Not only does it show a lack of civility, but it also shows a lack of intelligence.  I used to wonder what kind of people frequent websites like vox, huffpost, and thedailybeast.  Now I know.  

Who is Angela Rasmussen?  She is a virologist, with a special interest in “the struggle between host and pathogen.”  Admittedly, I know very little about viruses, but I’ve read enough about virology to gather that it’s a flaky branch of science, the authorities of which have free rein to air their theories without fear of ridicule, because so few people are interested in the subject, and these authorities, these experts, often vehemently disagree with each other.  Some of them are also shameless fraudsters, like Dr. Robert Gallo, who rose to prominence when AIDS was big news in the 1980s, and whom I’ve written about on this site in the piece entitled “A Tale of Three Roberts.”   Dr. Rasmussen has racked up quite a few titles and degrees, twelve in all, at various universities between 2000 and 2020, mainly Columbia.  On her website is a list of about 150 radio and podcast interviews she’s done in the last six years, which anyone can listen to.  One was enough for me, but judging from the dates and headings, it’s clear that she had a lot to say during the first two years of Covid, and was a tireless campaigner for the Covid vaccine.  She also appeared on 44 videos and TV shows, and was quoted well over 300 times in the mainstream media and in various left-liberal outlets.  Currently she is an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan and Stony Brook University, and is connected with numerous powerful organizations worldwide, including the U.S. military establishment, that promote vaccines.  Her curriculum vitae is ten pages long.  She is a vaccine fanatic, a female version of Paul Offit, the media’s favorite go-to vaccine expert.  I’m surprised I never heard of her.  If you were to tell her that the Covid vaccine has killed or maimed a huge number of people in the U.S. and around the world, her mind would snap shut and she’d probably tell you to fuck off.

In addition to all her media exposure, she lists 47 scientific papers that she has authored or co-authored.  Let me tell you something.  In my study of vaccines and related medical fields over the years, I’ve only read about twenty of these esoteric articles, but I’ve glanced at the titles of at least a thousand, and I often asked myself, “What does it all add up to?”   Walk into any medical library, or law library for that matter, and you’ll see thousands of volumes on the shelves, the output of people who spent entire careers juggling technical terms without having contributed a dime’s worth of knowledge towards human progress.   Here’s Dr. Rasmussen at her best: Flavivirus Antagonism of Type I Interferon Signaling Reveals Prolidase as a Regulator of Ifnari Surface Expression.  What the hell is that supposed to mean?  As a child I might’ve been dazzled by all those fancy words, but not now.  Rasmussen works in a research lab.  There are more than half a million people in the U.S. engaged in similar work, studying this and publishing that in the name of public health, and what have they ever done to benefit ordinary folks who have real jobs and pay their salaries?  Nothing that I’m aware of, though there may be a few exceptions here and there.  They’re simply Deep State parasites, doing no productive work, driven by an instinct to survive and flourish.  Uncle Sugar Daddy allocates $50 billion annually to public health medicrats, hands out grants to universities and private institutions, and Big Pharma, with their combined trillions, underwrites fake studies that fit in with their business model.  It’s one big, bloated club.  I can only speculate that Rasmussen has been traveling first class on the research grant gravy train for a long time.  Every year the so-called health care industry grows bigger and richer as Americans grow poorer and sicker.  Never have there been more vaccines given to kids; never have kids been sicker.   

Aside from all the empirical evidence that contradicts the supposed benefit of vaccines, and aside from all the corruption and depravity baked into the industry, the personalities of those involved, for and against vaccines, tells us a great deal, at least those of us who possess sensitivity and intuition.  Look at people like doctors Andrew Wakefield and Suzanne Humphries, who have been alerting the public to vaccine damage for many years.   You can easily find their presentations on the internet.  Watch and listen to them.  They project kindness, honesty, and intelligence.  Then look at their opposites.  I did exactly that in my book.  I tried to show the reader what vaccine developers, and their strongest supporters, are like in their own words and deeds.  With one exception, all of them repelled me from the start.  Most are rotten to the core.  The exception was John Enders.  He was one of many involved in the mad scramble for a polio vaccine in the 1950s, and he was the only one to be awarded the Nobel Prize, for devising a substratum in which polio viruses could be grown for use in vaccines.  He accepted the award only on the condition that he share it with his two lab assistants.  I thought that was noble of him, especially in that jealous, backbiting atmosphere.  Furthermore, he was above the many personal feuds, respected by his colleagues, and in appearance looked like a dignified, older scientist.  Then I did more investigating.  Enders got disgusted with the polio vaccine rat race and went to work on a measles vaccine, which was actually used for five years before it was discarded, but not before it was tested on thousands of children in Nigeria and on institutionalized children in New York and Massachusetts.  He approved that.  I could find no evidence that he tested it on his own grandchildren.  Like nearly all vaccinologists whose careers I’ve examined, he regarded impoverished or abandoned children as expendable.  So in my view, not only was he a failure, but he was also a psychopath, though to my knowledge there’s no record of how many kids, if any, were harmed or killed by his useless measles vaccine.

I don’t expect you, the reader, to recognize the names of John Enders, Hilary Koprowski, Stanley Plotkin, or any of the other criminals I cover in my book.  But I’m sure you know some of the public faces who have pressed for vaccines in recent years.  I’ll name the most recognizable one: Anthony Fauci, who retired as the highest salaried bureaucrat in U.S. history.  Millions actually believed, during all the Covid nonsense, in his make-believe media image as “America’s Doctor.”  But millions more saw him for what he is: a liar, a weasel, and an incompetent clown who changed his recommendations to “flatten the curve” as often as he changed his underwear.  The same goes for his sidekick, Dr. Deborah Birx, the infamous “scarf lady.”

But enough of this.  If my ideas resonate with you, you should read my book, which you can do for free on this site.  Here’s what I emailed my two newest friends through their respective websites:

March 2, 2026

Doctors Angela Rasmussen and Eric Lullove:

John Massaro here, author of Will Vaccines Be the End of Us?, which can be read in its entirety on my website endtheshots.com.  I just checked out your podcast interview of February 24.  I hate to be rude, but I must say that my contempt for both of you is boundless.  If you were to become acquainted with my ideas, the feeling would surely be mutual, though perhaps the title of my book and the name of my website on their own is more than you can stomach.  There could never be any polite dialogue between us, any “we can agree to disagree,” because we dwell in two different realities.  

Anyway, if you care to look at my site, you’ll see that I offer $30,000 to anyone who can fill me in on any vaccine developer, since 1796, who wasn’t or isn’t a failure, a swindler, or a psychopath.  Since you think you’re smart, and regard people like me as fucking lunatics, and other pleasant terms you used in your conversation, that shouldn’t be difficult.  By the way, Dr. Rasmussen, you spoke very highly of Jonas Salk, about whom I wrote in detail in the polio chapter in my book, pages 50-70.  Don’t bother citing him, unless you can disprove the damning things I wrote about him.

If either of you wish to reply, please use the contact form on my site and I’ll post whatever you write.  If you can show me that I’m wrong about vaccines, then I’ll issue you a humble apology, take down my site, and with a deep sense of humiliation and regret, scrape up $30,000, which would be a significant personal loss, but worth it if I were to discover that I’ve been on the wrong track in my mission to do something good for humanity.

John Massaro