Up until his death in July 2014, Dr. Morris remained an outspoken critic of CDC’s annual flu shot program. In 1979, Dr. Morris told the Washington Post, “It’s a medical rip-off. . . . I believe the public should have truthful information on the basis of which they can determine whether or not to take the vaccine. . . . I believe that given full information, they won’t take the vaccine.” Dr. Morris’s 2014 New York Times obituary reported his statement, “The producers of these [influenza] vaccines know they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway.”23
