Parents Still Worried About Vaccine Safety

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I love how the mainstream media have become compliant cohorts in pumping the 'Company' agenda. Every paper quoting and regurgitating the same mantra. No one questioning the amount of vaccines, their necessity (chickenpox??) and correlating rises in Nuerotic disorders. I could mention a whole list of other coincidental evidence, but why? Our vigilant media is on the job! Reporters are undercover risking life and limb to get the truth. In the meantime they have selflessly instituted a daring policy of endless fear-mongering in order to prevent the world from sinking into a dark diseased abyss unless we all submit our children to increasing amounts of unproven (any proof that immunization shots prevents disease is annecdotal at best. See, two can play at that game.) and poison laden (Mercury is a neuro toxin. Period!) Media's tenacious efforts to ask the tough questions, and not back off until definitive answers were given...... or the government handed them a statement saying they have dismissed any link. Our steadfast media put this report through the ringer. Here is the link ........ Why bother, the government doesn't lie. I smell a Pulitzer guys. Thanks again for setting the record straight. Now hurry, Tiger was spotted at Hooters!

John74 of 4:08PM March 01, 2010

Well, since Dana is cartain that the issue is settled, and that we who question the current American vaccination process are "questionable people," I guess we're all wasting our time thinking critically about the issue, and should probably be locked up. Way to try to stifle debate!

Kalvin of WI 12:30PM March 01, 2010

Do the research for yourself and stop taking the medical community's advice blindly. Many "spokes docs" are being paid by the vaccine manufacturers to endorse and defend their product, which they KNOW is harming hundreds and thousands of kids!
All medical treatment comes with risk, however, when is the risk of injury from a "preventative measure," to protect from a disease that is inconvenient (chickenpox) or treatable and rarely life threatening (flu), a greater risk than the disease itself?
Flu Vaccine Injury Makes Cheerleader Walk Backwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR5p_bD3uLc
CBS 60 Minutes: 300 death claims from 1976 swine flu vaccine, only one death from flu
www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m7d10-CBS-60-Minutes-300-death-claims-from-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-only-one-death-from-flu
Gardasil Causes 400 Percent More Deaths than Other Common Vaccine
www.naturalnews.com/026722_Gardasil_HPV_cervical_cancer.html
Gardasil Death & Brain Damage: A National Tragedy
www.greendivamom.com/2009/02/09/gardasil-death-brain-damage-a-national-tragedy/
Accept this as fact: The government and vaccine manufacturers are not giving you all of the facts.
Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out: "Public Should Receive More Complete Warnings"
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/19/cbsnews_investigates/main5253431.shtml
I asked myself, "Why are we pumping infants and toddlers full of foreign agents during the greatest period of physical and neurological development of their lives?" My kids are low risk for all of the diseases we vaccinated for. I stopped giving my older children boosters and refused vaccines for my last two children, who are my healthiest kids! (Are we damaging the body's immune system with these "preventatives"??? You will never see a study to answer that question.)
Ask yourself: "Is the preventative worse than having to treat the disease, IF we get exposed?"
Choose for yourself wisely. Don't let someone else choose for you and your family!

Jeff of TX 11:51AM March 01, 2010

I agree with Dr. Siegel. The current medical guidelines call for too many vaccines. But I would add that not only are we giving too many vaccines, they are administered over too short a time period in our children's lives, thus over-stressing some children's developing immune systems. Only give the vaccines really needed, don't combine so many of them and spread the administration over a much longer time period.

Diane in WNY of NY 11:50AM March 01, 2010

"C of OH" I'm glad someone here understands the validity of scientific method and chooses not to perpetuate the contagious paranoia surrounding the issue. Why is it that the harsh reality of being born with a developmental disability gets blamed on the medical community and big Pharm? The answer lies somewhere in the human genome and is not going to be easy to pinpoint. If vaccination was a proven risk to human development there would clearly be some scrap of evidence. I'll be a father in 7 weeks and I simply can't imagine not protecting my child from potentially life threatening diseases.

J of MI 11:44AM March 01, 2010

The Lancet published paper by Dr. Wakefield was bogus, bunk, not genuine. Just because it was removed for "ethical issues" does not change the fact that his findings have not and could not be reproduced by other studies that actually followed scientific rigor. In response to the person who brought up measles, "who was the last person you knew who had measles?" is a testament to the efficacy of vaccination. The fallout of the Wakefield paper is a budding measles epidemic in England. Humanity was very close to eradicating that disease, which can very well kill far more children than there are people diagnosed with autism, and now thanks to quackery and fear mongering we are set back 30 years. The vaccine additive and "cocktail" argument as similarly bogus. For the love of all that is good and holy, WISE UP PEOPLE! Vaccinate your children! If you don't, you put your community as well as your children at risk. Herd immunity has protected the idiotic few who don't vaccinate up until now. Now, don't get me wrong, autism is tragic, but giving parents a false target to blame(and one that actually endangers children far more than autism) is unconscionable.

The Filthy Assistant of LA 11:36AM March 01, 2010

Does Dr. Paul A. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, still hold patents on the vaccines he is pushing? Yes he does. Is that not a conflict of interest? Yes it is , in a moral standpoint. In a legal standpoint, he is allowed to do so.
As a parent, and a grand parent, I do want vaccines. I just want them to be safe.
I want them to be tested on primates PRIOR to the injection of my child, by a facility NOT FUNDED by the manufacturer of the vaccine. I want to know that there were no financial ties to any of the people that work in the CDC or FDA.and the vaccine I will be required to give my child or grandchild under threat of prosecution for child neglect.

Evelyn Christy of NV 11:24AM March 01, 2010

Misstatement-
"Freed's group also found that one in five parents still believes vaccines cause autism, even though this notion has been repeatedly discredited by scientific research."
In fact one study that 'refuted' autism connections SAID ITSELF that autism spectrum disorders were SPECIFICALLY NOT INCLUDED. What/where are these studies- NOT financed by pharmaceutical companies?
Misstatement-
"Last month, the original article that purported to show a link between autism and the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine was retracted by The Lancet the journal that published it in 1998, because it was based on false data, Freed noted."
In fact the research was legally dispensed with because of 'ethical issues'. NONE of the data were attacked as being wrong, in error or misleading.
Misstatement-
"they place their child at risk for potentially life-threatening vaccine-preventable diseases"
In fact most of the disease vaccinated against are NOT generally life threatening.
Misstatement-
"Offit pointed out that outbreaks of diseases such as measles can occur in communities where vaccination rates are lower."
As well they can occur in areas where vaccination rates are higher....
Vaccination for diseases that are controlled and/or eliminated by hygiene and better diet is foolishness perpetuated by those who profit from it most. The same FDA that recalls drugs it was supposed to have researched and approved BEFORE release..? The same political system that gives us panic about global warming BEFORE the 'science is settled'?
Good luck with that.

Thomas K. Mudgeon of FL 11:24AM March 01, 2010

@ Claude
As we broaden our definition of autism (now autism spectrum disorder) we increase the number of cases. Your quote of "naturally occurring" autism is from long before autism was well diagnosed. In fact, there's no such thing as "unintelligent people" anymore. Haven't you noticed?
I don't mind that... but there were unintelligent people long before vaccinations. As we understood more about autism and learning disorders, diagnoses were properly performed. The number of cases grew and we realized that there really aren't so many "unintelligent" people. In fact, they ARE intelligent, they simply have a condition known as autism.
This is also well known in the ADD/ADHD research circles.
Every time we diagnose a learning disability or brain abnormality, we understand more about the individuals with it. They go from being "stupid" to having a condition.
Claude, if you're suggesting that we insult autistic people by calling them "morons" again (a clinical term, look it up... don't blame me), then it sounds like you're significantly under-informed. Straw man? Yes, definitely. But I can't stand people like you that want to label autistic people as morons and idiots. You're a grade-A jerk.

ShawnPitman of NH 11:22AM March 01, 2010

I dont necessarily think vaccines are the only cause of autism. I do, however, think autism is a modern disease caused by our way of life in modern times. The amount of chemicals that permeate our lives is far greater than what humans experienced in past times. Not only babies but fetuses are exposed to chemicals...whatever is breathed in by mother, whatever makeup or other things are absorbed by her skin, whatever is present in the water the mother drinks-these are all passed on by the mother to the fetus. As soon as they are born, they are pumped full of chemicals like vaccines. And vaccines are nowhere near as benign as many people think! As a pharmacist, I can speak to people and get a good "clinical" feel for what people go through after a treatment. Many people find that a toddler loses functional abilities after a vaccine...they cant speak as well, or crawl/walk as well as they were, and mentally, they can seem like a different child. The reason it is always disproved that vaccines are one part of what causes autism is that it is so hard to prove. If it was one chemical that was being studied, that would be easy...but children are given combinations of several things, making the discovery of a causal entity unlikely. And I doubt it's one causal entity anyway. The simple truth is...no one can say what is causing autism and other disorders, so how can they say what is not causing it? It is too complicated for science to definitively answer. I'm not anti-vaccine...I think some vaccines are effective. I am, however, against filling a tiny, developing body full of chemicals all at once. I think small children get way too many vaccines. It would be better just to protect them against the most serious of diseases, and vaccinate more conservatively, until their bodies can develop further.

Chris of OH 11:20AM March 01, 2010