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...]
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...]
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...]
Flu shots during pregnancy – Are they really safe?
For the past several years, women have been advised to get flu shots to protect their unborn baby. But has this practice been properly tested and does the data show that the practice is safe? A non-profit, the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) has been sounding alarm bells about the … [Read more...]
Vaccinations: Knowing versus Feeling
Wow what a story. Yes, all parents want what is best for their children, just like this mom. It can be very difficult to make the decision whether to vaccinate in today's world where government agencies and medical professionals and other authorities have so much at stake and therefore have a … [Read more...]
Does vaccination overstimulate the immune system?
Let's talk about nature. Nature has incredible ways of regulating itself. When any one species multiplies beyond the systems ability to sustain it, there is not enough food and the species in question begins to decline. But what happens when humans mess with this balance in nature? I spent some … [Read more...]
Vaccine Bombshell: Baby Monkeys Develop Autism After Vaccines
This article, originally published on Vanguard on November 3, 2012, refers to research that was presented at a conference last spring. While this may seem like old news, did you ever hear about it? Did you ever hear that a team of scientists gave baby monkeys the vaccine schedule and that the … [Read more...]
A Vote for Prop 37 is a Vote for Freedom
Many of you have probably heard about Proposition 37, a California ballot initiative that would require Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or products made from them to be labeled. While you might not think Prop 37 has anything to do with vaccinations, it does. Here's why. The folks fighting … [Read more...]
Vaccine Injury After Gardasil – Are Higher Rates of Adverse Reactions Real?
Yesterday The Daily American newspaper published a heartbreaking letter to the editor from mom Kelly Sotomayor. Ms. Sotomayor describes the story of how her perfectly healthy 13 year old daughter received the Gardasil vaccine and ended up unable to walk for 2 years, with widespread muscle pain and … [Read more...]
