<p>Quote: “You’re parroting the party line. We’ve all heard it before. Much of it is undoubtedly valid. But I suggest your crap detector is underdeveloped. Did you also believe Bush when he told you Iraquis attacked New York and were armed and ready to nuke Washington?”</p>
<p>Although I don’t want to validate your use of foul-language on the Internet, I am not relying on President Bush or any elected official in my evaluation of disease morbidity, mortality and prevention. If the American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC and other medical bodies are reduced to the “party line”, so be it. I have a vast amount of experience in diseases, as well as preventing them and saving lives, and it does coincide generally with these organizations’ very solid and caring recommendations. This is not theoretical or a “party line” for me, and I would never risk a person’s life by trying something new in medicine for the sake of being different or trendy. I have considered all angles, and ultimately, having spent my life saving lives has been a great way to live. If I agree with my colleagues, then I am proud to be part of my community.</p>
<p>But that is OK, you can swear at me, I’ve dealt with more difficult situations than a random person on the Internet belittling the field of medicine. I also have spent many years answering the viewpoint that you represent, and hope that I have prevented diseases many times by being able to stay calm and answer people who are well-intentioned but sadly misguided, while trying to protect their children against illness.</p>
<p>“Actually, the clinicians who state that all vaccines are foolish and risky vis a vis babies and children getting diseases such as diptheria, invasive hemophilus or pneumococcal disease, smallpox, etc, are not rational, intelligent or well-informed. They are totally irresponsible people who prey on ignorant people to either make a lot of money on selling books to innocent misinformed people, have no memory or knowledge of pediatric disease, or are misleading.”</p>
<p>collegialmom, I completely agree that a Google search of “vaccine reaction” or similar prompts will yield pages authored by irresponsible quacks interested in selling books. I think we’re all smart enough to see that. Such a search will also yield numerous sites from consumer advocates and scholarly pubs with little discernible bias beyond the wish for further independent research. For starters, check the links under “Vaccine safety critical views” on wikipedia. I’m sure I don’t need to caution you to consider your source.</p>
<p>“crap detector” – a famous line from Ernest Hemingway. Sorry if you’re offended.</p>
<p>edited for clarity:</p>
<p>In <em>Teaching as a Subversive Activity</em> (1969), Neil Postman
and Charles Weingartner argued that “crap detectors” have
played a key role in history:</p>
<pre><code> One way of looking at the history of the human
group is that it has been a continuing struggle
against the veneration of ‘crap.’ Our
intellectual history is a chronicle of the anguish
and suffering of men who tried to help their
contemporaries see that some part of their fondest
beliefs were misconceptions, faulty assumptions,
superstitions, and even outright lies. (p. 3).
</code></pre>
<p>I’m assuming of course you know who Ernest Hemingway was? Postman?</p>
<p>My daughter isn’t autistic but I did notice neurodisorders when she started receiving vaccines ( she refused to let me hold her- she screamed for hours- she has high pain tolerance- low touch tolerance-)
From studies I have read, females for some reason may be more suseptible to the heavy metal in the vaccines.
I had to stop wearing contacts, because of thimerosal in teh solution and although I didn’t notice changes with my older daughter, although I was very careful about when she was vaccinated, my younger daughter seemed to have a strong reaction, and I was desperate to try anything to help her.
when your child screams for hours- when you don’t get more than a couple hours of sleep at a time for years, because your baby/toddler/preschooler finds everything so distressing- you will try anything that might help, and avoid anything that might hurt.</p>
<p>Many doctors will test to see levels of protection before immunizing, & I would recommend that as people have different levels of immunity & may be immune to something they had never been immunized for, or not immune to something that they had been vaccinnated against</p>
<p>Thank you I’ll stick with scholarly journals. tempered by my own experience.</p>
<p>Now I think I am getting into the fringe, so “cheerio mates”!</p>