Vaccine Safety & Mandates: Aaron Siri vs. Dorit Reiss

Few issues in modern public health generate more passionate disagreement than vaccine policy — who decides, what's mandated, and what accountability exists when things go wrong. This debate brings two of the most prominent legal voices on opposite sides of that divide into direct conversation, where the stakes involve not just legal precedent but public trust in medicine and government authority.

Aaron Siri is a founding partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP and one of the most active attorneys litigating against vaccine mandates and pharmaceutical company immunity in the United States. He has represented clients in high-profile cases challenging federal vaccine programs and has been a persistent legal thorn in the side of public health agencies.

Dorit Reiss is a law professor at UC College of the Law San Francisco who specializes in the intersection of administrative law and vaccine policy. She has written extensively in support of evidence-based vaccine programs and the legal frameworks that allow governments and institutions to implement and enforce immunization requirements.

Viewers will come away with a clearer understanding of the actual legal arguments — not just talking points — on both sides of vaccine mandates, liability protections for manufacturers, and the role of federal agencies like the FDA and CDC in shaping public health policy.