Flu Vaccination Hysteria: A Manufactured Narrative Against Truth and Science

Source: https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

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The Sydney Morning Herald article by Angus Delaney, “This is not the record we want to be breaking: Anti-vax ideology helping to fuel flu case surge: GPs” (20 October 2025), reads like a propaganda leaflet for the pharmaceutical industry rather than responsible journalism. It uncritically parrots the claims of establishment GPs and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), dismissing valid scientific concerns about influenza vaccines as mere “anti-vax ideology.”

What it fails to do—deliberately—is examine the evidence. And the evidence is clear:

> influenza vaccines have never been proven in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies to be either safe or effective.

 

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In this well-written article prof dr Ian Brighthope addresses several fact-based topics that were not addressed in the above mentioned fear-mongering pro Flu-vax propaganda piece. 

Each of these topics deserves to be addressed in separate articles, but this short article provides a good overview: 

• A Narrative Built on Fear

• The Illusion of Effectiveness

• The Reality of Harm

• Antigen Overload and Immune Suppression

• Typical Ingredients / Excipients in Influenza Vaccines in Australia

• How influenza vaccines are made

• Ingredients in influenza vaccines

• The Alternative: Natural Immunity and Early Treatment

• Vaccines as Dinosaurs

The short article is well worth a read >  https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

 

Memorial Hospital in Pattaya currently have a good package for this year's flu vaccination - 650 baht.  I'm getting mine and my son's today.

16 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

In this well-written article prof dr Ian Brighthope

 

Professor Ian Brighthope graduated in Agricultural Science in 1965. His research interests were in the fields of agriculture and veterinary nutrition, including the nutritional health of cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, pigs and poultry.

 

 

 

Oh, my. 

 

The Victorian Medical Board charged Melbourne general practitioner Dr Ian Brighthope with infamous and professional misconduct in 1988.

 

https://www.afr.com/companies/nature-takes-its-course-19900406-kal7a

11 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

Flu Vaccination Hysteria: A Manufactured Narrative Against Truth and Science

Source: https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

= = = 

The Sydney Morning Herald article by Angus Delaney, “This is not the record we want to be breaking: Anti-vax ideology helping to fuel flu case surge: GPs” (20 October 2025), reads like a propaganda leaflet for the pharmaceutical industry rather than responsible journalism. It uncritically parrots the claims of establishment GPs and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), dismissing valid scientific concerns about influenza vaccines as mere “anti-vax ideology.”

What it fails to do—deliberately—is examine the evidence. And the evidence is clear:

> influenza vaccines have never been proven in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies to be either safe or effective.

 

= = = 

In this well-written article prof dr Ian Brighthope addresses several fact-based topics that were not addressed in the above mentioned fear-mongering pro Flu-vax propaganda piece. 

Each of these topics deserves to be addressed in separate articles, but this short article provides a good overview: 

• A Narrative Built on Fear

• The Illusion of Effectiveness

• The Reality of Harm

• Antigen Overload and Immune Suppression

• Typical Ingredients / Excipients in Influenza Vaccines in Australia

• How influenza vaccines are made

• Ingredients in influenza vaccines

• The Alternative: Natural Immunity and Early Treatment

• Vaccines as Dinosaurs

The short article is well worth a read >  https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

 

 

I have already alluded to the "truth" of Covid-19.

 

But you cannot understand what I am talking about.

 

And neither would you accept it if you understood it.

 

And this is the case with the vast majority of the population.

 

So that's why they had to create a false narrative.

It's not for nefarious purposes.

It's just because most people do not have the capacity to understand and accept what it's all about. 

 

The "conspiracy narrative" is also a fake narrative, another false narrative mostly based on fear-mongering. 

 

The vaccines aren't killing millions of people. It's only "in your head".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Predictably, another anti-vaxer nutjob as the source in the OP:

 

Here's who Ian Brighthope really is:

 

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--AI assisted

 

And just who is the World Council for Health... the private group whose Australia affiliate was led by Brighthope?:

 

"The World Council for Health is a pseudo-medical organisation dedicated to spreading misinformation to discourage COVID-19 vaccination, and promoting fake COVID-19 treatments.^[1]

 

The organization's online appearance is that of a mainstream health organization.^[2] It appears to have been formed in September 2021 and its published leadership contains people which an Australian Associated Press fact check described as "figures who have promoted unfounded conspiracy theories".^[3] The group was founded by Jennifer A. Hibberd and Tess Lawrie, an obstetrician and founder of the "BIRD Group", which erroneously promotes ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment.^[4]

 

The World Council for Health is affiliated with Children's Health Defense, an antivaccine association led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.^[5]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Council_for_Health

 

 

"Overall, we rate the World Council for Health a right-biased quackery level pseudoscience and conspiracy organization based on promoting unproven and false claims regarding vaccines, Covid-19, and general health." [emphasis added]

 

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-council-for-health-bias/

 

 

But even with all those facts, let's be generous and see just what Brighthope's bio says on the World Council for Health Australia's website. Is he the kind of guy you want to be getting credible vaccine-related information and analysis from?

 

Professor Ian E. Brighthope

"Professor Ian Brighthope graduated in Agricultural Science in 1965. For the next three years he was involved in teaching and research. His research interests were in the fields of agriculture and veterinary nutrition, including the nutritional health of cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, pigs and poultry. [emphasis added]

...

It was in the fields of plant and animal nutrition that Professor Brighthope became aware of the importance of optimum nutrition and the use of nutritional supplementation in animal production, the treatment of animal dysfunction and the potential of this approach in the prevention and treatment of human disease.

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He is currently researching the therapeutic potential of medicinal cannabis, a powerful health care therapeutic of the future. ... The nutraceutical approach is now used in many centres. Additional treatments are now included, in particular the use of the very effective repurposed drugs Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

 

https://wchaustralia.substack.com/p/introducing-world-council-for-health-54c

 

And here we have Brighthope spewing his false anti-vaxer nonsense, and being called out by Australian Associated Press:

No truth in COVID vaccine-related 'turbo cancer' warning

December 23, 2024

Australian Associated Press

 

"AAP FactCheck – Social media users are spreading untrue and unsourced claims that Australian "officials" have warned billions are going to die from "turbo cancers" linked to COVID-19 vaccines.

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The only person quoted in the article to back up the claim is Ian Brighthope⁶, an integrative medicine advocate the article [falsely] describes as "one of Australia's most renowned doctors". [my editorial comment added]

 

Professor Brighthope is featured in a video version of the report embedded in the article and is identified as a "professor of nutritional and environmental medicine" (4 minutes 55 seconds) – not a virologist or epidemiologist." [emphasis added]

 

(more)

 

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-truth-in-covid-vaccine-related-turbo-cancer-warning/

 

Yeesh!!!  Predictably, another major league anti-vaxer whack job!

 

As for the flu and flu vaccines, info from a U.S. context:

 

What Is Flu?

"Influenza (in-floo-en-zuh), or flu, is a virus that can spread from person to person. It can cause mild symptoms or can make people feel very sick, causing serious problems that can lead to hospitalization and even death. Even healthy children and adults can get very sick from flu.

 

Burden

While the numbers vary, each year in the US, millions of people get sick from flu, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized, and tens of thousands die from flu and related complications. Flu also affects employers and businesses, costing an estimated $11.2 billion in direct and indirect costs in the US annually. Vaccines help prevent millions of cases of respiratory infections each year.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has classified the 2024-2025 flu season as high severity overall across all ages. According to preliminary estimates, there have been at least 47 million flu-related illnesses, 21 million medical visits, 610,000 hospitalizations, and 27,000 deaths, including 281 pediatric deaths during the 2024-2025 flu season. [emphasis added]   https://www.nfid.org/infectious-disease/flu/

23 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Memorial Hospital in Pattaya currently have a good package for this year's flu vaccination - 650 baht.  I'm getting mine and my son's today.

What!! After all my posts, you are still willing to have a vaxx; that protects you from nothing; not 'safe & effective'; and has ingredients that could cause both of you illness.

 

Sir! You don't need it. there is nothing to fear.

Flu vaccination can keep you from getting sick with flu.

 

"Flu vaccine prevents millions of illnesses and flu-related doctor's visits each year. For example, during 2019-2020, the last flu season prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, flu vaccination prevented an estimated 7 million influenza illnesses, 3 million influenza-associated medical visits, 100,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations, and 7,000 influenza-associated deaths. [emphasis added]

 

During seasons when flu vaccine viruses are similar to circulating flu viruses, flu vaccine has been shown to reduce the risk of having to go to the doctor with flu by 40 - 60%.

 

Flu vaccination can reduce the risk of flu-associated hospitalization.

 

Flu vaccination prevents tens of thousands of hospitalizations each year. For example, during 2019-2020 flu vaccination prevented an estimated 100,000 flu-related hospitalizations.

 

A 2018 study showed that from 2012 to 2015, flu vaccination among adults reduced the risk of being admitted to an ICU with flu by 82%."

 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu-vaccines-work/benefits/index.html

 

 

--AI assisted

 

AND

 

Fact

"Findings from vaccine safety monitoring systems and scientific studies have shown that flu vaccines have an excellent safety profile. Hundreds of millions of Americans have safely received flu vaccines for more than 50 years. The body of scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports their safety."

 

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/vaccines/flu.html

 

On 10/23/2025 at 9:26 AM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Influenza (in-floo-en-zuh), or flu, is a virus that can spread from person to person. It can cause mild symptoms or can make people feel very sick, causing serious problems that can lead to hospitalization and even death. Even healthy children and adults can get very sick from flu.

I know not your words. You did however do you usual 'copy n paste' so I reckon you do believe it. But let me tell you the truth.

 

There is no such illness as Influenza or 'The Flu' as is more commonly thought of. There is no such entity as a flu virus.

 

I'll tell you what it is. The flu is a wide ranging set of symptoms that tell you the body is ridding itself of; the snoke and fumes you inhaled last March, the medicine you look 2 months ago, the colouring, preservative and 'E' numbers in the food you have been eating all year.

 

It is a detox. A good thing to have. Should be encouraged. Should certainly not be suppressed with drugs.

 

Nature will not let you down. Love nature.

Ok got the flu Vax even the pneumonia Vax and STILL got the flu which put me out for 2 days in bed 

I asked for a refund 

4 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Ok got the flu Vax even the pneumonia Vax and STILL got the flu which put me out for 2 days in bed 

I asked for a refund 

You paid someone to inject your good self? They should pay you.

 

Glad you are still with us. When you go for a refund next time; take a bag of sick. Tell them you are returning it. Tell them they can have it back.

43 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Here's who Ian Brighthope really is:

 

Already covered in a previous tinfoil posting.

 

Our esteemed OP appears to running low on spirit wranglers and poodle therapists and crystal healers, and is doubling down on the whackjob citations.

 

 

3 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Already covered in a previous tinfoil posting.

 

Our esteemed OP appears to running low on spirit wranglers and poodle therapists and crystal healers, and is doubling down on the whackjob citations.

 

 

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/jerm-warfare-ian-brighthope-on-the-importance-of-holistic-medicine

 

Here's the man himself, telling it as it really is.

28 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

AND

 

Fact

 

 

 

Just now, johng said:

 

 

 

 

You keep reposting the same OLD 2006 video above that has nothing to do with the current / recent flu vaccines used in recent years.

 

1 hour ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Memorial Hospital in Pattaya currently have a good package for this year's flu vaccination - 650 baht.  I'm getting mine and my son's today.

 

Good idea.

I would, too, if I were in Pattaya.

 

6 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/jerm-warfare-ian-brighthope-on-the-importance-of-holistic-medicine

 

Here's the man himself, telling it as it really is.

 

TikTok has the answers ye seek.

26 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Ok got the flu Vax even the pneumonia Vax and STILL got the flu which put me out for 2 days in bed 

I asked for a refund 

 

After getting your vaccines, then just do what I do...

 

Never leave your house.

 

1 hour ago, Red Phoenix said:

Flu Vaccination Hysteria: A Manufactured Narrative Against Truth and Science

Source: https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

= = = 

The Sydney Morning Herald article by Angus Delaney, “This is not the record we want to be breaking: Anti-vax ideology helping to fuel flu case surge: GPs” (20 October 2025), reads like a propaganda leaflet for the pharmaceutical industry rather than responsible journalism. It uncritically parrots the claims of establishment GPs and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), dismissing valid scientific concerns about influenza vaccines as mere “anti-vax ideology.”

What it fails to do—deliberately—is examine the evidence. And the evidence is clear:

> influenza vaccines have never been proven in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies to be either safe or effective.

 

= = = 

In this well-written article prof dr Ian Brighthope addresses several fact-based topics that were not addressed in the above mentioned fear-mongering pro Flu-vax propaganda piece. 

Each of these topics deserves to be addressed in separate articles, but this short article provides a good overview: 

• A Narrative Built on Fear

• The Illusion of Effectiveness

• The Reality of Harm

• Antigen Overload and Immune Suppression

• Typical Ingredients / Excipients in Influenza Vaccines in Australia

• How influenza vaccines are made

• Ingredients in influenza vaccines

• The Alternative: Natural Immunity and Early Treatment

• Vaccines as Dinosaurs

The short article is well worth a read >  https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

 

You want the truth? Type this into your favorite  AI engine:

"refute:  influenza vaccines have never been proven in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies to be either safe or effective."

 

1 hour ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Professor Ian Brighthope graduated in Agricultural Science in 1965. His research interests were in the fields of agriculture and veterinary nutrition, including the nutritional health of cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, pigs and poultry.

 

 

 

Oh, my. 

 

The Victorian Medical Board charged Melbourne general practitioner Dr Ian Brighthope with infamous and professional misconduct in 1988.

 

https://www.afr.com/companies/nature-takes-its-course-19900406-kal7a

 

 

8 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

TikTok has the answers ye seek.

Never watched TikTok Sir.

 

Plenty of integral platforms out there. Take a n=butchers at the link for the first 5 minutes.

 

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/jerm-warfare-ian-brighthope-on-the-importance-of-holistic-medicine

41 minutes ago, lou norman said:

You want the truth? Type this into your favorite  AI engine:

"refute:  influenza vaccines have never been proven in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies to be either safe or effective."

 

 

I dare to seek answers.

 

"Big AI Overview" says:

 

The claim that influenza vaccines have never been proven safe or effective in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies is false.

 

 The efficacy and safety of flu vaccines have been established over decades of clinical trials and surveillance, with placebo-controlled studies being a key part of the initial licensing process for new formulations.

38 minutes ago, lou norman said:

You want the truth? Type this into your favorite  AI engine:

"refute:  influenza vaccines have never been proven in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies to be either safe or effective."

 

Your AI engine is not a 'truth-teller', it is just scanning the Internet and summarizes what it found in response to your query, but this within its programed boundaries (like ignoring content that challenges the 'accepted narrative').  

It's a broader and more sophisticated source than Wikipedia (yikes) or doing a Google search, but it is just as untrustworthy as these sources to provide you with an unbiased response on your query. 

Note > And of course when following your advice and putting 'refute:' before the statement, you will surely not be confronted in the answer that you receive with anything else than content that bashes the statement.    

 

Next year I will get THREE flu Vax 

One on April one July and one in October 

I still got the flu after the flu vaccine last April 

"Oh but you would of got it much worse if you didn't get the flu Vax " said the doctor here in rubbish Australia 

I said it didn't work did it ,so refund time $20 it cost 

 

So next year I will have it done 2 or 3 times , once is NOT enough it seems 

refute: germs don't exist

 

Germs are real and are scientifically proven to cause infectious diseases, as established by germ theory, which has been supported by extensive research and experimentation over the past century. Denying the existence of germs contradicts the overwhelming consensus among scientists and medical professionals regarding their role in health and disease.

2 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

Flu Vaccination Hysteria: A Manufactured Narrative Against Truth and Science

Source: https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

= = = 

The Sydney Morning Herald article by Angus Delaney, “This is not the record we want to be breaking: Anti-vax ideology helping to fuel flu case surge: GPs” (20 October 2025), reads like a propaganda leaflet for the pharmaceutical industry rather than responsible journalism. It uncritically parrots the claims of establishment GPs and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), dismissing valid scientific concerns about influenza vaccines as mere “anti-vax ideology.”

What it fails to do—deliberately—is examine the evidence. And the evidence is clear:

> influenza vaccines have never been proven in rigorous, placebo-controlled, long-term studies to be either safe or effective.

 

= = = 

In this well-written article prof dr Ian Brighthope addresses several fact-based topics that were not addressed in the above mentioned fear-mongering pro Flu-vax propaganda piece. 

Each of these topics deserves to be addressed in separate articles, but this short article provides a good overview: 

• A Narrative Built on Fear

• The Illusion of Effectiveness

• The Reality of Harm

• Antigen Overload and Immune Suppression

• Typical Ingredients / Excipients in Influenza Vaccines in Australia

• How influenza vaccines are made

• Ingredients in influenza vaccines

• The Alternative: Natural Immunity and Early Treatment

• Vaccines as Dinosaurs

The short article is well worth a read >  https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/flu-vaccination-hysteria-a-manufactured

 

Oh, your back with another "well worth a read", noooooo thank you, I may end up like you..😬

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

You keep reposting the same OLD 2006 video above that has nothing to do with the current / recent flu vaccines used in recent years.

 

It's his agenda.............😏

I'm thinking one Flu vaccination in April 

And one in July 

And one in October 

Will that save me from the flu next year ?

7 minutes ago, transam said:

It's his agenda.............😏

Red is trying to get people informed. Getting the message out there.

 

What you shooting the messenger for Trans? He is trying to help you.

 

Do your own research, not just blindly accept what compromised white-coats and government officials say you must do.