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Originally posted by SangriaRed
We're expecting our 3rd in March.
(yah it's early)
And I've thought about this as well>
I'm not anti vax, but I'm not pro-vax.
I think it's like so many other procedures and such, make an informed decision and realize that with every decision you make you are putting yourself and your child at risk.
Many things in a child's life presents a risk and it's a matter of working out how big the risk is.
Research it. Look up the main stream, look up the alternative and look up the medical facts.
I have a lot of questions but to be fair: no, we haven't had a major outbreak of measles, smallpox and such in many, many years.
Don't have a good answer for you, but wish you luck and hope you will keep us up to date.
Vaccine-autism claims, GMO "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public's growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter, a trend that spells disaster for human progress
Childhood inoculations protect us against deadly infectious diseases like measles, whooping cough and polio. But they are also the source of near constant conflict — most recently in the Feb. 22 Supreme Court decision that ruled in favor of a vaccine manufacturer over the family of a disabled girl. In recent years, some parents, influenced by fringe activists who believe vaccinations cause autism, brain damage and other ailments, have begun to refuse them for their children. Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has seen the consequences: preventable childhood deaths, community outbreaks of outdated diseases and misinformed, angry parents. In a conversation with TIME and in his recent book, Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All, Offit describes the origins of our squeamishness with inoculation and why we should fight against it. Read more: www.time.com...
Could this be the case that breaks the hold that anti-vaccination idiocy has over certain sectors of our country? Janice D'Arcy reports at the Washington Post on the latest measles outbreak traced back to anti-vaccination fanatics, but this time, instead of an outbreak being traced back to a Whole Foods or a nursery school---the usual places where the kids of yuppie anti-vaxxers have a chance to expose and be exposed---the trail for this one leads back to the Super Bowl. Indiana has had 14 cases of measles since the game, and 13 of those have been confirmed as occurring in anti-vaccination families. The outbreak started with two infected people who went to the Super Bowl village, visited a few places, and thereby set off the mini-epidemic. As D'Arcy points out, if not for widespread vaccination, the numbers of exposed would have reached the hundreds of thousands.
Some of you may recall that this past April the anti-vaccine National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) ran an ad in New York City’s Times Square. The ad was made to basically do two things: 1) propagate falsehoods about vaccines, and 2) direct traffic to the NVIC website.
Anti-vaccine groups are still working hard to spread their scientifically-unsupported message to the masses, this time via an ad on a jumbotron in Times Square, New York City.
Originally posted by TheMythLives
This thread has a great debunking of the video:
Debunked
Who he really was...
Originally posted by drbatstein
reply to post by Kangaruex4Ewe
Unfortunately most people don't look into vaccines until it is too late, but it is our tragic loss that spurs us to be here now trying to help others who haven't been exposed to both sides of the story. Each time we share our message on here, lives will be saved.
edit on 6-8-2012 by drbatstein because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheMythLives
reply to post by drbatstein
This thread has a great debunking of the video:
Debunked
Who he really was...
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. It is thus that I so often state: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Originally posted by drbatstein
Originally posted by winnar
There seems to be a common misconception that mercury has been taken out of all vaccines. It hasnt been. Just most of them. Meanwhile they added other things that are just as bad if not worse.
Very good point, and it's also worth mentioning that it's now looking like Autism is in fact an autoimmune disease, it started to spiral out of control once the aborted fetus cellular debris was put into the vaccines, as our bodies are not just creating antibodies to the virus, but also to cells from the aborted fetus. Since the cells of the aborted fetus are so similar to our own cells, we can end up with antibodies which are fighting our own bodies, our immune system is then fighting us every day (this is known as an autoimmune disease). Vaccines cause many autoimmune diseases, such as Diabetes Type 1, MS and muscle-wasting diseases, but none of it gets tracked. You'd need to be tracking each person for at least 90 days post-vaccination for this to show up. The system deliberately doesn't track for this, as it's there by design to make big money from lifelong treatments. If we stop the vaccines, the future generations will be healthy and Big Pharma's profits won't be
The claim that newborns tolerate vaccinations less well than older infants may be negated by the statement “It is absolutely impossible that newborns tolerate vaccinations less well than older infants,” which may be perceived as a strong and confident negation. A weaker risk negation may be expressed by the following statement: “It is extremely rare that newborns tolerate vaccinations less well than older infants.”
The experts state that not only are infant vaccines safe, but they contain considerably less active molecules than before. In addition, a review of 1,200 articles conducted by the Institute of Medicine did not find any autoimmune side effect from vaccines - there is either no impact or that any relation to autoimmune conditions is not causative.
Originally posted by TheMythLives
reply to post by winnar
I am not sure if your badgering is necessary. There is no debate... Much like there is no reason to debate a person who does not believe in climate change. Much like there is no reason to debate literal creationism. Much like there is no reason to debate a holocaust denier. Much like there is no reason to debate if we went to the moon in 1969. There is no reason to debate this either. The debate has been over for sometime. It is finished. The truth is what it is. I will leave this thread with one final closing remark to shed some light into myself (Quote by Christopher Hitchens)
Originally posted by TheMythLives
reply to post by gluetrap
The claim that newborns tolerate vaccinations less well than older infants may be negated by the statement “It is absolutely impossible that newborns tolerate vaccinations less well than older infants,” which may be perceived as a strong and confident negation. A weaker risk negation may be expressed by the following statement: “It is extremely rare that newborns tolerate vaccinations less well than older infants.”
James Randi
The experts state that not only are infant vaccines safe, but they contain considerably less active molecules than before. In addition, a review of 1,200 articles conducted by the Institute of Medicine did not find any autoimmune side effect from vaccines - there is either no impact or that any relation to autoimmune conditions is not causative.
www.medicalnewstoday.com...
Remember also that we are differing with two different biologic bodies and thus have to account for that increase in shots. It is more technical then that, but that is the best that I can provide. Plus, it is also the type of vaccines and then it goes right back to the biology...