Responsible parenting is knowing what is good for your child, not following some mandate by some government buerocrat that has his pockets lined by pharmacutical companies.
We have us a conspiracy theorist!
Vaccines, and why they are given to infants:
http://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-anti-vaccine-disease-rant-or-reason/Notice this reference is a scientific magazine and has references and is peer reviewed...not anecdotal evidence.Another one in favor of vaccines, specifically addressing vaccine testing:
http://www.drwile.com/lnkpages/render.asp?vac_testInformation about the sicko Wakefield, a big name in anti-vaccination lore:
http://briandeer.com/wakefield-deer.htmThe National Network for Immunization website:
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/I've studied Epidemiology and how disease spreads... its some scary stuff. When I read articles like the one I posted about pertussis, when I see people like Wakefield and how he abused poor children to prove a point, and when I see people like Jenny McCarthy spreading their outdated crap, it makes me sick. I also feel nauseated when I hear people claim "Big Pharma" is out to make money by lining the pockets of politicians and pushing vaccines on doctors. The American Academy of Pediatrics...the main purpose of that group is to protect the health of kids! To think that they would develop an immunization schedule that isn't what is best for kids seems ludicrous to me. They are constantly updating and revising their publications and recommendations on what is best for children... if there was an issue with vaccines, that would be one of the first things they would jump on. Notice how the flu shot is not recommended for children under 6 months old? The studies that they have done
religiously have shown that the flu shot is not good for kids that age. Well, then, if vaccines were bad for the ages they have published the schedule for, would they honestly have recommended those ages based on money alone? They're rich enough without the bribes! They specialize in medicine for kids!
If you take a good long look at the list of vaccine preventable diseases on the National Network for Immunization website, how many of them are currently widespread and killing people off? Now how many of them are deadly? How many of them have been have been the cause of an epidemic that has thinned out a population? Take a look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics. Guess what is repeatedly on that list... yeah, its influenza. The flu. It can be deadly. Measles, Mumps, Yellow Fever, Typhus, and Polio are also on the list. Repeatedly. Large amounts of people have been infected and have died from the spread of those diseases. We have vaccines to prevent them. Seems simple to me, especially coupled with the video I posted regarding herd immunity earlier in this topic.
I am not an expert in medicine, though. I can't help but wonder what Jordandog thinks about this topic... hint hint wink wink nudge...