As you may know, attacks on the right to exempt our children and ourselves from vaccines are rife nationwide. The vaccine lobby sponsored over 100 bills in over 35 states across the US this past legislative session which would remove or restrict the right to vaccine exemptions and the US department … [Read more...]
Experts: Focus on the population not the individual, when it comes to HPV vaccinations
It's been a veritable media frenzy on HPV vaccines: "Katie" Couric last week, now "The Doctors" this week shining a light on HPV vaccines. "The Doctors" started off the show by focusing on the story of two sisters who are suing Merck because they both developed primary ovarian failure after … [Read more...]
HPV Vaccines: CDC says they are safe but you know better
Here is yet another heartbreaking story and video about another girl damaged by Gardasil. This poor young woman developed a rare autoimmune disease called ITP whereby her blood no longer clots making life a very dangerous proposition as she could bleed out from a normal bump or bruise. She was … [Read more...]
Media Coverage of Vaccines – Follow the Money
For the past couple of weeks there have been numerous headlines in Australian media calling for "vaccine refusers" to lose certain public services and for unvaccinated children to be shunned by society, daycare, etc. There is even a campaign called "No jab, no play" (see links to stories below). … [Read more...]
Religious Exemptions and Medical Neglect – Who Decides?
Dr. Paul Offit, leading vaccine mandate proponent, Merck consultant, rota virus vaccine developer, and head of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recently penned a piece, Ending religious exemption to medical neglect in Pennsylvania.1 While Dr. Offit horrifies parents with … [Read more...]
The Australian: Blaming “Vaccine Refusers”
In another example of media hype and spin, The Australian newspaper in Australia ran this headline: "No jab, no play campaign reveals vaccination refusals high as babies die". From the title, one would think several babies had died recently but that is not the case. The story mentions several … [Read more...]
What to consider before getting a Pertussis shot
There has been much talk lately about pertussis (whopping cough) outbreaks given the tens of thousands of cases in recent years. Although we are told vaccines don't cause any of the neurological complications many parents report after vaccines and that the pertussis outbreaks are due low rates of … [Read more...]
HPV Vaccines and Evidence Based Medicine
Since FDA's 2006 'fast-track' approval of Merck's Gardasil vaccine, the public has been inundated with messages about the dangers of cervical cancer as well as the alleged best prevention tool, HPV vaccination, either Gardasil or its competitor, GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix. Young girls are implored … [Read more...]
What’s the scoop on the shingles vaccine?
Recently we've received many questions about whether to get the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine. As always, the issue is not as black and white as some would have us believe, so here we discuss what you may not read in the mainstream about the shingles vaccine. The US Centers for Disease Control … [Read more...]
Civil Rights and Vaccines
January is civil rights month and January 21st is not only Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and Federal holiday but also inauguration day. January, a month to celebrate rights and freedoms, it would seem an inspiring way to start off the year. But that is not the way the year started out for … [Read more...]
