We previously discussed how, from the outset, goalposts had to be constantly changed to protect vaccines from being seen as failures. The game was always rigged.
And so in 1881, Mary C. Hume Rothery, editor of the National Anti-compulsory-vaccination Reporter, discusses the justification of such failures in terms of vaccine idolatry:
“They believe in a word — we doubt not many of them really do believe — in the fetish they have set up; though how a rational human being can arrive at such belief is a psychological problem not easy of solution, but yet one of very old standing ; for so the nations of old fashioned out of a tree the idols to which they then prayed, saying, “ Deliver me, for thou art my god.”
“Modern scientists cultivate a peculiar sort of dirt—it melancholy to read of M. Pasteur, for instance, at Melun, spending valuable time in cultivating corruption (he calls it “pure lymph,” too, no doubt) of a more or less virulently poisonous character, corruption so foul that living parasites abound in it, and having cultivated, whether in calves or in sheep, or in hapless infants, this corruption, this dirt, to their liking, our sages insert it in their blood and say, “ Deliver me from small-pox for thou art my god of health.”
“The parallel runs further yet; for just as we have all read of benighted worshippers when alarmed for or disappointed in results, beating, throwing away, or deserting the image previously worshipped, so do the votaries of vaccination when an epidemic, from which their fetish ought to have protected them, makes its appearance, and seizes some of them-as it always does-for its first victims, heap scorn and contumely on their once prized “successful vaccination.” It becomes “imperfect” or “ spurious” vaccination at once; and recourse must be had to a new protecting-fetish-“re-vaccination,” which, as the official German statistics now so overwhelmingly prove, protects just as little as its predecessor ; (less by any possibility it cannot).
“There is nothing more ludicrous, as we have often observed, than the blind terror with which small-pox inspires our best vaccinated populations,-such as that of London for instance. When no danger is at hand they point triumphantly to the cooked statistics and lying death-rate percentages with which the “divinity” of vaccination is hedged in by its priests and prophets ; but let there be a case of small-pox within half-a-mile, and immediately a re-vaccination scare arises.
“Previous vaccination is avowedly useless in presence of an epidemic. “You must re-vaccinate at once !” Then what in the name of all that is rational was the use of the previous vaccination, when there was, according to the orthodox theory, no small-pox to catch ? But, no sooner is the epidemic over and the danger as they suppose past, than back they go to their Vaccination-peans and their percentages again !-just as the savages pick up and reinstate their abused idols, when thanks to some other agency the danger has passed by.”
Marcy C. Hume-Rothery, “Modern Devil-Worship,” National Anti-compulsory-vaccination Reporter, Vol. V, No. 12, September 1, 1881, ed. Mrs. Hume-Rothery, in National Anti-compulsory-vaccination Reporter, Vol. V, October 1880 – September, 1881, ed. Mrs. Hume-Rothery, 202, 203.
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“Indeed the idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this world much wrong, have drowned my glories in a shallow cup, and sold my reputation for a song.” (Omar Khayyam.)