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PART TWO

It’s was a particularly muggy night in late August as my mother came home from work. She’s a nurse, and though the weather was a factor, my sweaty palm prints left on the kitchen table were caused by an entirely different kind of heat: the fiery heat of fear.

“What’s your problem?” my mother prodded with a furrowed brow as I jerked my clammy arm away from the needle. “Why don’t you just get it over with, it’s only a flu shot,” she insisted.

“I don’t think tonight is a good night for this—I’m working out tomorrow and I don’t want my muscles to be more sore than they need to be,” I blurted out nervously as I rolled my sleeve down. The gym, by the way, is always a great excuse. Sure I have a terrible body and the core strength of Stephen Hawking. Doesn’t matter. Nobody will question it and you can just never go to the gym again.

Nonetheless, my fear ran much deeper than that. Echoes of Jenny McCarthy and Robert Dinero aerated my brain like a helium balloon.

I wasn’t afraid of aching muscles. I wasn’t afraid of needles. I was afraid I was going to catch the autism.

Conspiracies are like rumors—the false ones spread fast, but the true ones spread even faster, like Bill Cosby and the Moon Landing. Sure there are volumes of scientific “data” that “prove” there is zero correlation between vaccines and autism. Just like there’s an abundance of “pictures” taken from “the moon” proving the earth is “round.”

Well guess what? I wasn’t in that needle lab. I wasn’t on that moon, though I was ultimately rejected by a team that is currently on their way there. If you blindly follow science’s word, you’re really just blinding yourself. You’re blinding your third eye with statistics and research and other nerd bullshit.

It was time for me to settle the debate once and for all. If not for the people, then for myself. To do this, I needed to investigate vaccinations from a paranormal perspective. A lens that science nerds are too afraid to look through because they’re probably afraid of the dark because they’re nerds.

To quote Thomas Fuller, “seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.”