Gavin de Becker

In his 2025 book Forbidden Facts, renowned security specialist Gavin de Becker, whose career has largely focused on violence prevention and the protection of public figures, applies his criminology lens to an act that far too many members of the public still do not recognize as criminal: the poisoning of American children through childhood vaccines.

Although many people and books have, by now, blown the whistle on what Catherine aptly calls out as an enormous bluff—the bluff that vaccines are “safe and effective”—de Becker’s contribution is to expose some of the key tricks the medical-pharmaceutical establishment has used to engineer and perpetuate its lies.

One of the tried-and-true elements in vaccine propagandists’ playbook is their deployment and repetition, ad nauseum, of a “magic word”: “debunked.” As de Becker calmly explains, there are three questions that no one is ever able to answer when questioned about the supposedly “debunked” vaccine-autism link (or the link between many other government-sanctioned poisons and their inevitable adverse outcomes): “Who debunked? How was it debunked? Why was it debunked?”

The inability to answer those questions, de Becker shows, is because no actual science has taken place. Instead, there “is a closed-door discussion about how they are going to say what they’ve already decided to say, which is that there’s no link between [the adverse outcome and the poison] and that it’s ‘debunked.’”

The playbook also frequently involves the same willing players: “They us[e] the same people, the same method … for the same customer—the U.S. government—and all that differ[s] is the toxin. They use the same language.” Unfairly, those players often get promoted up the ladder for keeping the “debunking” game going.

As CHD’s Mary Holland pointed out in an interview with de Becker, Forbidden Facts comes with a surprising dose of humor for such a grim topic, and this is because the fraudsters’ efforts to hide reality and pin down their narrative can sometimes be a bumbling comedy of errors. Although this has not prevented the overall deception from being—until now—largely successful, de Becker and others are helping to puncture that success. On November 19, notably, the CDC updated its webpage on vaccines and autism to say, “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.”

As de Becker told Holland, “I know, by the way, what actually causes ‘vaccine hesitancy’—it’s reality.” The dose of reality de Becker has provided in his book and interviews is making a heroic contribution.

Be sure to read Catherine’s review of Forbidden Facts HERE.