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The episode discusses vaccine policy history and the importance of informed consent with guest Barbara Loe Fisher.

In this striking conversation with Barbara Loe Fisher we speak about the history of vaccine policy in the United States as well as the implications of informed consent and what this means for us all. Barbara Loe Fisher is co-founder and president of the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC.org), a U.S. charity established in 1982 by parents of DPT vaccine injured children to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defend the ethical principle of informed consent to medical risk taking. Barbara worked to secure vaccine safety and research provisions in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and has testified in Congress and state legislatures. She is co-author of the seminal 1985 book DPT: A Shot in the Dark, founding executive editor of the online journal newspaper The Vaccine Reaction, and a video blog commentator. For more than two decades, Barbara served as a consumer member on vaccine advisory committees at the CDC and FDA and vaccine safety public engagement projects sponsored by federal agencies and the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. She has coordinated six international public conferences on…

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