John Leake is a nonfiction author with a lifelong interest in medical history and forensic medicine. Since 2021, he has worked with Dr. Peter McCullough and was the primary author of their bestselling book The Courage to Face COVID-19. He writes a daily investigative report for the Focal Points (Substack) newsletter and is secretary of the McCullough Foundation Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist who has been a leader in the medical response to COVID-19. In 2020, he published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection” in the American Journal of Medicine. This paper presented the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients and was subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19 and commented on the medical response in countless media outlets. He has also testified repeatedly in the US Senate and several state legislatures. He is president of the McCullough Foundation.

“Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake have done the near-impossible: cutting through the noise and contemporary dramas around the issues of vaccines, they have produced a page-turning history and a gripping analysis of vaccines as myth and social ideology. This astute combination of intellectual and medical history, cultural analysis, and hard-hitting medical and scientific exposition could not have been accomplished by any other team. Vaccines will change the way you think about medical history, and how the collective mind, shaped by powerful interests, may propagate illusions out of thin air. This is an essential book for navigating our frenzied times with knowledge and insight, and it is one that will outlast us—a beautifully written classic of medical history and the history of ideas.” —Dr. Naomi Wolf“The appeal of vaccines that can prevent disease and death is obvious. Unfortunately, blind faith in vaccines has replaced critical thinking and robust cost-benefit analysis. Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake provide both as they recount the history of vaccination in their must-read book.”—Senator Ron Johnson“A sweeping historical investigation that presents objective and competent guidance to the promise, folly, and dangers of vaccines—an industry that clearly needs a reset in light of evidence.”—Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute“John Leake and Peter McCullough, MD, separate fact from fiction in their telling of the 120-year history of the modern vaccine era. The most recent myth they expose is that new technologies can change the rules of biology—a false proposition that culminated with untested mRNA ‘vaccines,’ whose champions aspired to inject everyone with their new product. Vaccines challenges this con that threatens the health of humanity.” —Robert Clancy, emeritus professor of immunology, University of Newcastle

John Leake is a nonfiction author with a lifelong interest in medical history and forensic medicine. Since 2021, he has worked with Dr. Peter McCullough and was the primary author of their bestselling book The Courage to Face COVID-19. He writes a daily investigative report for the Focal Points (Substack) newsletter and is secretary of the McCullough Foundation Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist who has been a leader in the medical response to COVID-19. In 2020, he published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection” in the American Journal of Medicine. This paper presented the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients and was subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19 and commented on the medical response in countless media outlets. He has also testified repeatedly in the US Senate and several state legislatures. He is president of the McCullough Foundation.

“Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake have done the near-impossible: cutting through the noise and contemporary dramas around the issues of vaccines, they have produced a page-turning history and a gripping analysis of vaccines as myth and social ideology. This astute combination of intellectual and medical history, cultural analysis, and hard-hitting medical and scientific exposition could not have been accomplished by any other team. Vaccines will change the way you think about medical history, and how the collective mind, shaped by powerful interests, may propagate illusions out of thin air. This is an essential book for navigating our frenzied times with knowledge and insight, and it is one that will outlast us—a beautifully written classic of medical history and the history of ideas.” —Dr. Naomi Wolf“The appeal of vaccines that can prevent disease and death is obvious. Unfortunately, blind faith in vaccines has replaced critical thinking and robust cost-benefit analysis. Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake provide both as they recount the history of vaccination in their must-read book.”—Senator Ron Johnson“A sweeping historical investigation that presents objective and competent guidance to the promise, folly, and dangers of vaccines—an industry that clearly needs a reset in light of evidence.”—Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute“John Leake and Peter McCullough, MD, separate fact from fiction in their telling of the 120-year history of the modern vaccine era. The most recent myth they expose is that new technologies can change the rules of biology—a false proposition that culminated with untested mRNA ‘vaccines,’ whose champions aspired to inject everyone with their new product. Vaccines challenges this con that threatens the health of humanity.” —Robert Clancy, emeritus professor of immunology, University of Newcastle

John Leake is a nonfiction author with a lifelong interest in medical history and forensic medicine. Since 2021, he has worked with Dr. Peter McCullough and was the primary author of their bestselling book The Courage to Face COVID-19. He writes a daily investigative report for the Focal Points (Substack) newsletter and is secretary of the McCullough Foundation Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist who has been a leader in the medical response to COVID-19. In 2020, he published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection” in the American Journal of Medicine. This paper presented the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients and was subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19 and commented on the medical response in countless media outlets. He has also testified repeatedly in the US Senate and several state legislatures. He is president of the McCullough Foundation.

“Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake have done the near-impossible: cutting through the noise and contemporary dramas around the issues of vaccines, they have produced a page-turning history and a gripping analysis of vaccines as myth and social ideology. This astute combination of intellectual and medical history, cultural analysis, and hard-hitting medical and scientific exposition could not have been accomplished by any other team. Vaccines will change the way you think about medical history, and how the collective mind, shaped by powerful interests, may propagate illusions out of thin air. This is an essential book for navigating our frenzied times with knowledge and insight, and it is one that will outlast us—a beautifully written classic of medical history and the history of ideas.” —Dr. Naomi Wolf“The appeal of vaccines that can prevent disease and death is obvious. Unfortunately, blind faith in vaccines has replaced critical thinking and robust cost-benefit analysis. Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake provide both as they recount the history of vaccination in their must-read book.”—Senator Ron Johnson“A sweeping historical investigation that presents objective and competent guidance to the promise, folly, and dangers of vaccines—an industry that clearly needs a reset in light of evidence.”—Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute“John Leake and Peter McCullough, MD, separate fact from fiction in their telling of the 120-year history of the modern vaccine era. The most recent myth they expose is that new technologies can change the rules of biology—a false proposition that culminated with untested mRNA ‘vaccines,’ whose champions aspired to inject everyone with their new product. Vaccines challenges this con that threatens the health of humanity.” —Robert Clancy, emeritus professor of immunology, University of Newcastle