Press Kit

Guidelines for Podcasters and Media Outlets Interested in Interviewing Dr. Paul or DeeDee

Questions to Ask Dr. Paul
  1. Why did you write VAX FACTS?
  2. What makes VAX FACTS different from your other book, The Vaccine-Friendly Plan?
  3. How are you different from other pediatricians?
  4. Dr. Paul, how can you be right, while so many of your colleagues seem to be wrong on the vaccine issue?
  5. What is your core philosophy on vaccines, informed consent, and mandates?
  6. Can you share more about your published research and why it was retracted?
  7. Why is the chapter on SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) so important?
  8. What have you found regarding the risk of death from vaccines compared to the risk of death from the diseases they are meant to prevent?
  9. Aren't you worried society will regress if everyone stops vaccinating?
  10. How do you respond to those who claim that unvaccinated children benefit from the protection provided by vaccinated children?
  11. Is it not our responsibility to protect society’s most vulnerable, like cancer patients and the immunocompromised, by getting vaccinated?
  12. What was most surprising when you looked at the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies?
    • (Answer: The massive number of medical conditions caused by vaccines, including more infections, and the relatively better health and lack of infections in the unvaccinated.)
  13. How do you address the argument that “association does not mean causation”?
  14. What would you do today if you were a new parent deciding on vaccines?
​Questions to Ask DeeDee Hoover (Just a Mom)
  1. Why are you so passionate about the vaccine topic?
  2. What is the most important takeaway you hope readers get from this book?
  3. What have you found to be most helpful when coaching others on communication issues?
  4. What would you do differently today regarding vaccinating your son, and why?
  5. Who should read VAX FACTS?
  6. Do you have a message you want to share with all parents—and adults, for that matter?
 

Authors Bio's

Paul Thomas MD ​(retired)
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Dr. Thomas was born in Portland, Oregon, grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and attended Dartmouth Medical School where he received his medical degree in 1985. He was a board-certified pediatrician for 30 years and practiced pediatric medicine for 35 years in the Portland, Oregon, area. Dr. Paul taught residents and medical students from Oregon Health & Science University for many years and was in a group pediatric practice from 1993 to 2008. In 2008 he opened his own practice, Integrative Pediatrics, which focused on informed consent and honored parents’ wishes in all areas and especially when it came to vaccines. Parents could do all, some, or none of the CDC and AAP-recommended vaccines.
Integrative Pediatrics served over 15,000 active patients. As the owner and director, Dr. Thomas supervised numerous pediatric nurse practitioners. Over his 14 years (2008–2022) there, they provided over 100,000 patient visits, and their clinic was the most sought-after clinic for parents who wanted to be free from the coercion and bullying that was becoming common in other pediatric practices. This gave Dr. Thomas a unique opportunity to see the real-world differences in health outcomes for these different groups of patients. He was astounded by how healthy and relatively free from chronic disease the unvaccinated children were.
​Dr. Paul cowrote the book The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, published in 2016 by Ballantine, which has sold over 175,000 copies and been translated into many languages. He also cowrote The Addiction Spectrum, published by Harper One, and several other publications and articles in peer-reviewed journals.
After he published the landmark scientific paper that compared health outcomes for the unvaccinated to those of the variably vaccinated, the Oregon Medical Board emergently suspended Dr. Thomas’s medical license, which was odd because he had just produced exactly what the board had requested from him—data proving that the vaccine-friendly plan was as safe as the CDC vaccine schedule. (The irony, of course, is that the CDC schedule has never been tested for safety!) Dr. Paul retired, under duress, in December 2022 to save the practice. The silver lining was that left him free to communicate openly about this vital vaccine issue.
Dr. Paul has been speaking publicly at medical freedom rallies and professionally at numerous conferences about the dangers of the CDC vaccine schedule and vaccines in general for several years. He co-founded Kids First 4 Ever with coauthor, DeeDee Hoover: https://www.kidsfirst4ever.com. He is also the founder and host of the show “With the Wind” at https://www.doctorsandscience.com. He currently hosts the weekly show “Pediatric Perspectives” at Children’s Health Defense TV on their Good Morning CHD platform.
The PaulThomasMD YouTube channel has 1.6 million subscribers: https://www.youtube.com/user/paulthomasmd.
DeeDee Hoover (J.A.M.)
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DeeDee Hoover was born in Texas and lived and worked in numerous states before settling in Oregon, where she currently lives and works. She has been a licensed massage therapist for the past 35 years and has had certifications as a personal fitness instructor and coach, nutrition coach, lactation specialist, and many bodywork modalities.

She’s been teaching for the past 25 years, and her bodywork specialties include pediatrics, oncology, pain treatment and prevention, decompression therapy, geriatric and end of life care, and many more.

She’s also a family health and wellness coach. As a pediatric “kids first” wellness advocate, DeeDee is cofounder of Kids First 4 Ever: https://www.kidsfirst4ever.com and cohost of “With the Wind; Science Revealed” at https://www.doctorsandscience.com. Her YouTube channel is youtube.com/@wholehealthmyotherapy7539.

​DeeDee is passionate about supporting families to help improve pediatric health outcomes and family wellness, especially coaching them on vaccine issues and teaching them how to effectively communicate with those who don’t agree with their understanding of the data.

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