{"id":417844,"date":"2021-12-04T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T08:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=124087"},"modified":"2021-12-04T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T08:20:43","slug":"meet-the-godfather-of-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/04\/meet-the-godfather-of-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the \u201cGodfather of Vaccines\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.\u201d (Vito Corleone)<\/em><\/p>\n Vaccinologists consider the Stanley A. Plotkin Award<\/a> to be the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in their lucrative field. To qualify for this accolade, the nominee should be \u201can individual who has made significant contributions to the field of \u2018vaccinology\u2019 [their quotation marks, not mine<\/em>] or areas of related science that have impacted the lives of children and the specific area of pediatric infectious diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n Sounds noble. This Plotkin dude sure must be special to have his name connected to such a distinction. After all, his book,\u00a0Vaccines<\/em>,\u00a0is the standard reference on the subject of jabs.\u00a0He is also an editor with\u00a0Clinical and Vaccine Immunology<\/em>, which is published by the\u00a0American Society for Microbiology\u00a0in\u00a0Washington, D.C. He\u2019s euphemistically called the \u201cGodfather of Vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n Here are some more details from Plotkin\u2019s official bio<\/a>: \u201cUntil 1991, he was Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Virology at the Wistar Institute, and at the same time, Director of Infectious Diseases and Senior Physician at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n