Dr. Robert Sears is a practicing pediatrician in southern California. He comes from a family of physicians who have published a series of books called the Sears Parenting Library. He’s prominent nationwide for being a supposed voice of reason on vaccines. He believes in them but doesn’t push them, and has established what he calls an alternative vaccine schedule that differs from the recommendation of the CDC and other sainted “experts.” Specifically, he thinks it’s fine to delay some of them, and omit some that he doesn’t consider crucial. He comes across as a mellow, kindhearted man, a real-life Dr. Kildare type who most people instinctively trust. Because of his popularity, and because he deviates slightly from the vaccine dogma, he has been harassed for more than ten years by the California Medical Board, who have threatened to revoke his medical license if he doesn’t toe the line. (See the next post on this page.) He has also been chastised by the usual riffraff in the media and on Wikipedia. As far as I’m concerned, despite his moderate approach, he still doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but despite being scatterbrained he’s a decent person and I would never address him in those terms. The following letter elaborates.
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September 9, 2025
Dr. Robert Sears
26933 Camino de Estrella, Suite A
Capistrano Beach, CA 92624
Dear Dr. Sears:
I have studied the vaccine issue for many years, and am the author of the book Will Vaccines Be the End of Us? which I self-published in 2021. During the course of my research, I read two of your own books, including the one that made you a household name among millions of anxious parents not knowing which way to turn for accurate information. I am referring, of course, to your bestseller The Vaccine Book. The tone of your writing, and your soft approach — generally pro-vaccine but deferring to parents who wish to opt out of some or all of the shots routinely given to American children — tells me that you are a sincere and caring pediatrician. With all due respect, however, I must say that your book is riddled with errors that can lead, and have led, many parents to make bad decisions that put their children at risk.
My book can be read in its entirety on my website endtheshots.com. If you scroll down to pages 212-214 in the chapter titled “Examining the Other Side,” you’ll see that I quote from your own book several times, pointing out your faulty logic, non sequiturs, and contradictions. There’s nothing hostile in my criticism because again, I think you’re an honorable man who truly wishes to do what is best for every child. On the other hand, I think your judgment is way off the mark and leads parents down the wrong path.
My position is simple: I am totally opposed to all vaccination because the theory behind it has been shown to be erroneous countless times since its inception in 1796. I believe that every vaccine ever conceived has been at best useless, and at worst able to cause permanent injury or death.
I came to believe, long ago, that very few people will change their minds about important issues, even when confronted with solid evidence that clashes with their cherished beliefs. And to be frank, in the great majority of cases where there are no observable side effects, it’s easy to believe that vaccines are doing their job, because we can’t see what’s taking place inside the human body. But to my mind, what can be clearly demonstrated — aside from the cause and effect of a severe reaction within a short time after injection — is that no one has ever created a vaccine that has stood the test of time, and supposed success stories, like the much-ballyhooed Jonas Salk polio vaccine of the 1950s, instantly fall apart upon close examination. Upon close examination, also, of many individuals who worked in this field, going all the way back to Edward Jenner, we see that not one did anything to benefit mankind. On the contrary, many, including Salk, have been depraved criminals in my opinion. One would think that if vaccines have saved millions of lives, as we’re always told, it would be easy to name just one we could look up to as a genuine medical hero, as a man or woman of outstanding accomplishment and sterling character — someone like Florence Nightingale, who transformed the profession of nursing, or Alexander Fleming, who discovered the therapeutic use of antibiotics. Such, however, is not the case. As I see it, vaccination has always been a filthy practice carried on by rotten people.
Dr. Sears, I would bet the farm that I have studied the backgrounds of these people — from Edward Jenner to Louis Pasteur to Jonas Salk to Paul Offit, and many in between — much more thoroughly than you have, if you have at all. Almost to a man, I’ve found that they’re con artists, and often much worse than that. The fact that the specialized field of vaccines invariably attracts so many criminals is, to me, just one more line of evidence that it’s a scam, and an extremely lucrative scam at that.
On my website, I offer $30,000 to anyone who can show me one vaccine developer, since Jenner, who isn’t a failure, a swindler, or a psychopath. I think I did the right thing by issuing this challenge, because it shows that vaccine zealots, who think they know everything, have never even studied the subject. You yourself write in The Vaccine Book, “Doctors, myself included, learn a lot about diseases in medical school, but we learn very little about vaccines, other than the fact that the FDA and pharmaceutical companies do extensive research on vaccines to make sure they are safe and effective…. We trust and take it for granted that the proper researchers are doing their jobs.” That is both an honest admission and a revelation of extreme naïvete, to think that the FDA and pharmaceutical firms — and by extension, the closely connected CDC — are managed by caring, diligent researchers, when in fact they stand convicted of the most atrocious crimes against humanity.
No one has qualified to win the prize I offer. Instead, I have received a small number of hostile or irrelevant replies, which appear on my site. Now I personally present my offer to you, not because I wish to humiliate you, but because I’m confident that I’m right, and if someone in your position of authority cannot show that I’m wrong, that says a great deal.
In closing, I readily admit to having plenty of animosity towards those who wield a great deal of influence in praising vaccines, but I certainly don’t feel that way about you. Even though you’ve gone astray on this life-and-death issue, I think you’re a good man, and I hope to hear from you.
Sincerely,
John Massaro
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I would be delighted to thrash things out with Dr. Bob, as he likes to be called. If he does reply, I’ll tack it on here.