Who Says All Doctors Endorse Vaccines?
Look, the bottom line is that you shouldn't let other people think for you--not mainstream media, nor Internet health sites. What you need to do is listen to both sides of an argument, then, after compiling all the facts pertaining thereto (something which, apparently, you cannot do by just reading mainstream media propaganda), decide which side makes more sense. Actually, there may be some truth in both sides but what you should not--ever!--is assume that any side has the whole truth (and nothing but the truth) in its pouch of wisdom.
For the record, no one out there has cornered the market on "truth"--at least not on scientific matters.
How often does mainstream media lie or take sides unfairly? While that may be hard to determine, one thing they are blatantly lying about is this nonsense that only very few doctors and scientists oppose or have serious problems with vaccines. How reliable and trustworthy Internet sites are may also be a matter of opinion but, at least as far as the vaccine debate is concerned, these Internet sites are the only ones reporting about all these doctors, scientists and concerned citizens with legitimate concerns on the efficacy and safety of vaccines.
Are the concerns being voiced legitimate, well-researched and well-founded? The mainstream media seems to think that they can make that determination for you (which is why, rather than telling you the news, they are only telling you one side of the news) but aren't you educated and intelligent enough to make that call for yourself, after you are provided will all the facts at hand?
If the mainstream media publications spent more time reporting the news, rather than attacking Internet sites for giving you the rest of the news, maybe they would be doing what their supposed to be doing. The biggest lesson you can learn from this fiasco is that, in order to stay well-informed, you do need to check multiple sources of information.
Be especially wary if anyone (especially the mainstream media) tells to avoid other sources of information. At the very least, they are assuming that you can't discern between good and bad information; what is morel likely, though, is that they want to keep you in the dark or only partially informed.
For the record, (contrary to what mainstream media keeps discouraging): always seek out alternate points of view and independent sources of information; secondly, not every doctor/scientist is so passionately in love with vaccines (or their large profit margin) that they are willing to ignore the many complications and side-effects allegedly attributed to vaccines. In fact, a large number of them have strong reservations about vaccines.
This fact should be enough for you to conduct your own thorough investigation--unless, of course, you want to keep blindly trusting Big Pharma and Big Brother. If so, we wish you the best.
Just because you don't have a problem with being lied to (by mainstream media and those who financially profit from vaccines), though, doesn't mean you have a right to attack all those parents who are taking a stand against tyranny, mendacity, abuse of power, and lack of respect for individual freedom of choice. You don't have a right to attack these people, especially if you base your position/actions on the false information you received from for-sale mainstream media sources.
Copyright, 2015. Fred Fletcher. All rights reserved.
Resources
http://www.vaccinetruth.org/doctors_against_vaccines.htm
Cave, Stephanie, MD. (2001). What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Children's Vaccines. New York: Warner Books.
Think succinct.
By the way, the numbers aren't anywhere near that lopsided. In fact, suffering a side effect from a vaccine for say small pox is statistically much much more likely to harm you than your current chance for getting small pox. I picked that one on purpose because it's not controversial right now.
I also would like to add that the media blaming anti vaccine thoughts on Wakefield and MMR and autism isn't true in my case. You can tell where I stand. I have had this opinion for 25 years and could give you many more reasons than that
Freedom of choice is big. We want individual freedoms. Strap people down and forcing them to vaccinate is something out of a Sci Fi movie and should never become reality...
Like any product on the market, make it safe, make it effective and people will buy it. Cover up safety issues, pay a companies liability insurance for them and make them immune to lawsuit, why bother doing real research.
By the way, do they still break up the lots and ship them around the country in case they cook a hot batch? They used to so they don't create a scare. I haven't heard this in a while but I know that pediatricians used to have to record the lot number. That made me wonder.
Enough from me. Nice site, nice people discussing. Blessings. I got a little long.
Twelve years of fear and scare tactics is not easily undone. Especially when we're talking about parents' instinctive nature to protect their children. Marry that with a growing distrust of all things governmental and we have a situation where many parents simply DO NOT trust what the government, the CDC, the pharmaceutical companies, and even their doctors tell them. We question everything, AS WE SHOULD.
That said, I think it's in our childrens' best interest to question and research OBJECTIVELY. It's hard to do because you don't know what to believe anymore. It's certainly not easy for a parent to conduct their own investigation into the validity of any research paper or scientific claim. We have to rely on other organizations to do this, ironic isn't it?
We HOPE that there is some entity out there that sincerely cares about the kids. As a result, parents make what they think is the best decision based on what they have heard and read. And that's where we are today, with good parents on either side of this debate, doing the best they can to protect their children in a climate of distrust.
What I find most sad about this debate is the contempt I see from a lof of pro-vaccine parents towards anti-vaccine parents. Parents who don't vaccinate are doing the same thing that parents who do vaccinate are doing - they are doing what they think will best protect their children (unless they are not vaccinating due to religious beliefs, that's a separate issue). No one should judge parents who don't vaccinate. Many or most of them are very fearful that the poisonous chemicals contained in those vaccines will harm their precious little children (short-term or long-term). Who can blame them?
My wife and I questioned the MMR vaccine specifically because of Wakefield's study and other claims "out there." We ultimately got the MMR vaccinations for our children but we delayed many of the other recommended vaccinations and got them on a more spaced out schedule. We decided to vaccinate because, in our opinion, the available science supports their benefits.
So our kids are vaccinated, but it wasn't an easy process on us, it was even very stressful at times. We even dreaded some pediatrician visits where we knew we were going to tell our pro-vaccination doctor that "we're gonna' wait on that vaccination for another 3 months." Good luck to all you parents out there struggling with this debate. I don't think it will end anytime soon.
Who is right and who is wrong? Can't there be a group of pediatricians that would investigate this once and for all? Are all pediatricians afraid to get out from the shadows and speak out about this?
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