Ted Kuntz and Dr. Stephen Malthouse will be joined by drug policy researcher Alan Cassels to examine the influenza vaccine. Does the vaccine prevent influenza infection and transmission? What are the health implications of taking the flu shot? Learn the facts so you can make an informed decision for the health and well being of your family.
Alan Cassels
Alan Cassels believes that humans need clean, clear health information as urgently as they need clean water. He has been immersed in pharmaceutical policy research and healthcare journalism for 30 years, researching and writing about how prescription drugs are regulated, marketed, prescribed and used. His niche is in examining the gaps between the marketing and the science around regulated drugs (including vaccines) and medical screening, often focusing on the forces of disease creation. His books include Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us All into Patients (co-written with Ray Moynihan), The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters, and Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease.
In most of his writings Cassels focuses on the demands of the end-user, ordinary people facing the sharp end of the prescription pad which is increasingly and inappropriately shaped by entities selling us tests, treatments and theories of disease that threaten to turn more and more of us into patients. His most recent book, The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine’s Best Kept Secret (published in 2015) weighs into the history of an international organization which produces some of the world’s highest quality medical information.
His interests in rational prescribing, drug safety, overdiagnosis and disease-mongering has led to many invitations to lecture on these topics to actuarial science, journalism, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and political science programs in Canada, Australia, France and the United States.
With well-known drug safety advocate Kim Witczak, Alan Cassels is currently working to create a six-part documentary series on the 20th Anniversary of Selling Sickness, revisiting the cradle-to-grave phenomenon of disease mongering which affects us all.
Dr. Stephen Malthouse
Dr Stephen Malthouse practiced family medicine in Canada for 45 years, integrating the best of conventional and complementary therapies, with a special interest in homeopathic medicine. A long-time supporter of Vaccine Choice Canada, in 2021 he spearheaded the Doctors on Tour, speaking out across western Canada to expose the dangers of the covid shots, especially for children. In his presentation on the Future of Medicine at the Romanian Parliament in 2023, Dr Malthouse identified the need for a new healing paradigm and called for a moratorium on all childhood vaccinations. In 2024, Dr Malthouse testified at the National Citizens Inquiry on the dangers of childhood vaccines. He is founding President of the Canadian Integrative Medicine Association and past President of the Canada Health Alliance.
Ted Kuntz, M.Ed
Ted Kuntz M.Ed is a father, grandfather, medical choice activist, accomplished author, educator and retired psychotherapist. His books include: Dare to Question, Peace Begins with Me, How Can I Wake Up When I Don’t Know I’m Asleep and A New Parents Guide to Understanding Vaccination. Ted’s journey to examine the claims of the vaccine industry began after his son Joshua was severely injured by the DPT injection. His years of research have revealed the many lies we have been told about the safety, effectiveness and necessity of vaccinations. Ted believes that the effort to deny citizens their right to make medical decisions for themselves and their children is one of the greatest threats to humanity today and he is committed to protecting medical choice and demanding accountability of public