Why I feel duped by the anti-vaccine movement

I think if you believe in vaccines but don't advocate them you're part of the problem. Vaccines are about PUBLIC health. If your child's classmates start dying of whooping cough or becomes sterile because they get measles in puberty, I suppose you can say that is the parents' choice, but it's really more an unfortunate outcome of fear and igonrance.

That Amy Wallace article in Wired magazine was a complete disgrace and a slap in the face to all parents who have seen their children regress into another world after their children received their round of toxic laden witch's brew they call vaccines.
As far as vaccines go you (Annette Cardwell) are unfortunately deciding to adopt the status quo argument that we must all vaccinate our kids or else we are all going to die from these horrific diseases. Paul Offit and his minions have clearly shown that to get people to vaccinate their kids they must instill FEAR in the hearts and minds of new parents.
FEAR is what sells vaccines and FEAR is what is shutting out the real science that is out there about vaccines and heavy metal toxicity which in part is what is contributing to the rise in encephalopathy ie brain damage in children.
Yes there is an epidemic of FEAR and the fear comes from germophobes like yourself and Paul Offit who actually has profited from pushing his own Rotavirus vaccine to the CDC vaccine schedule. Please remember that over 2 billion $ has been paid out to parents whose children either died or became irreparably damaged from vaccines. Proof that vaccines kill, maim and damage thousands and thousands of innocent babies.

I DISAGREE WITH VACCINES MY SON HAS AUTISIM AND WAS DIAGNOSED WHEN HE WAS 2. I NOTICED A DIFFENCE IN MY SON ONCE HE GOT THE MMR SHOT EVERYTHING WENT DOWN HILL HE WASNT HIS NORMAL SELF AND STOPPED EATING OUR FOOD. I AM NOW 8 MONTHS PREGNANT WITH MY SECOND CHILD AND I WILL REFUSE TO LET THEM VACINATE HIM .

Ignorance, misinformation, fear, and paranoia are flourishing thanks to mommy blogs.

Obviously, you have choosen to believe this certain article and changed your mind. Anyone can find research to support their side. I have NEVER had a flu shot and neither have my children and we have not gotten the flu. My children are immunized against certain diseases but not all. And just because a pharmacutical company came up with the vaccine, doesn't make it right. Doctors get kickbacks for using the companies medicines and vaccinations. And, I don't hold the FDA or CDC to have the almighty truth, They are, for certain, government agencies. By the way, I am a nurse and have been practicing for 23 years and I DO do my homework, both good and bad sides.

So Wakefield is convicted of fraud but Offit is also convicted with the same and yet still continues to be the more credible one?
What colour is the sky of the planet you live on?

I love all of this about how parents that aren't immunizing are "selfish". Yes, I am choosing not to get my child vaccinated because I'm selfish. .....Or could it be because I read that the possible side effects are "permanent seizures, deafness, or permanent brain damage." And that's not from a biased website, it's from cdc.gov. (Center for Disease Control). And sure, maybe it's a 1 in 1000 chance that any of this will happen to my child, but I bet the parents of that 1 child thought "I wish we wouldn't have chosen to vaccinate".

First, any substance put in our bodies should be studied. There is hard evidence in what little studies are done that these vaccines have caused harm. See Dr. Sherri Tenpenny for the best written book on EVERYTHING about vaccines: she doesn't take sides but has researched for FACTS. Second, the whole 'herd mentality' of vaccine to save others actually is not proven: rather dis-proven even though the term is still flung around. Natural immunity: through contraction of the disease, reduces outbreaks when over 68% of the population has immunity. Time and time again this has been proven NOT the fact for the lesser immunity of vaccines. The best way of putting it, is: compare percentage values of what could happen to your child: brain problems/bad reactions vs. bad cases of indicated diseases. You will find that the diseases we vaccinate against are rarely killing or paralizing, and yet these mental ilnesses that have been proven (and I'm not talking about the unproven, such as autism) are more common. So what do you do? Vaccinate, or keep your kid healthy and robust with lots of fruit and veggies so that the child can fight the battle with his own tools?
Please analize EVERYTHING you say or think, because there's pop fiction in this: The Pertussus vaccine actually rarely works past two years and people often get it as adults, but ignore it as it is often a small cough that is hard to shake... or less. Blaming it's increase on the anti-vaccine movement is jumping to conclusions - and a big jump at that.

If you are really into conspiracy theories, then it makes more sense to say the big pharma industry is promoting the autism/vaccine link so people won't vaccinate their kids. Then they can make a big profit off the drugs used to treat a preventable disease!

There is no scientific data to prove that vaccines are 100% safe. If you don't believe me go to youtube and do a search on the Gardasil vaccine. Young women who became sick after getting their Gardasil shots are trying to reach other people to tell them not to get this vaccine. According to reports 47 girls have died so far after receiving HPV vaccinations, and some 12,000 others have been adversely affected . What bothers me most is that the drug company making this vaccine does not seem to care if there are deaths or adverse reactions. If they cared they would take it off the market.

ladylalalalalola It was a requirement for children to get vaccinated before they were allowed to enter school. However many parents how do not believe in vaccinating have been getting personal belief exemptions (the exemptions that allow muslims to wear they're head garb that type of thing etc) And vaccinations wear of anyway so by the time you're 55-60 the vaccine has worn off the little boy who sits next to you on the park bench with his mummy has measles (yet isn't showing the symptoms yet) and you're exposed so know at 55-60 or even younger if you're an infant and haven't gotten vaccinated you are now exposed to a deadly disease good luck treating it!!

Central Figure in Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds With $2 Million
| March 30 2010 | 16,547 views

Dr. Poul Thorsen, a central figure behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars.
Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting the CDC's claims that the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children.
One of his studies has long been criticized as fraudulent, since it failed to disclose that the increase was an artifact of new mandates requiring, for the first time, that autism cases be reported on the national registry.
Despite this obvious chicanery, the CDC has long touted the study as the principal proof that mercury-laced vaccines are safe for infants and young children. The mainstream media has relied on this study as the basis for its public assurances that it is safe to inject young children with mercury -- a potent neurotoxin -- at concentrations hundreds of times over the U.S. safety limits.
Leading independent scientists have accused CDC of concealing the clear link between the dramatic increases in mercury-laced child vaccinations beginning in 1989 and the epidemic of autism, neurological disorders and other illnesses affecting every generation of American children since. Questions about Thorsens's scientific integrity may finally force CDC to rethink the vaccine protocols since most of the other key pro vaccine studies cited by CDC rely on the findings of Thorsen's research group. These include oft referenced research articles published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the New England Journal of Medicine and others. The validity of all these studies is now in question.

I think with every medical decision, we need to do our research and know the risks. If the benefits outweigh the risk, then I think it is rational and practical to get the vaccine. Being in the military, I do not have choice on the the mandatory vaccinations. However, I do see why they made the decision to make certain vaccinations mandatory. Seeing that there are always many of us in small places and often living close together, we can spread communicable diseases rapidly. We have had H1N1 outbreaks in the barracks. I think we can compare this experience with school where many children play and learn in close spaces.

Overall, I have had all my vaccinations (Hep A, Hep B, TB, etc...) and I am physically fine. The one negative experience that I have had with vaccinations is not getting one soon enough. I found out last year before I finished my 3-shot series of Gardasil that I tested positive for a strain of high risk HPV (Now I know what you're all thinking, so I'll tell you that I've had 3 sexual partners and I've been in a 3 year monogamous relationship). While no vaccine is 100%, I could have prevented that traumatic experience and have a lower risk of cervical cancer.

The benefits far outweigh the risks with vaccines.

Thanks for your point, krj02004! If it weren't for cat scans and pharmaceuticals, I wouldn't be alive today. I have a gene that makes me more prone to blood clots, which are also rare, but life-threatening complications of childbirth. I found out I have this gene only after being hospitalized for pulmonary embolisms a month after giving birth. Nature would've let me die at the age of 26, leaving a newborn without her mother, as many mothers in older times did. Nature isn't always best. I owe my life to the engineers that created cat scans and the chemists that created the drugs that dissolved my clots. And those people deserve a salary for their work. Remember, 30 used to be old age. Thanks to medicines and medical equipment, people live much, much longer, and live with a better quality of life.

As for the Gardasil, it's not for sexually active teens, as one mom said. It works best if they are vaccinated BEFORE they become sexually active and risk catching HPV, which can develop into cervical cancer. There are other causes of cervical cancer, but the vaccine prevents against one. I want to look into it more for my girls when they are old enough, but I know the fact that HPV is a sexually transmitted disease makes mothers think it's not for adolescent girls, so I wanted to point that out. I don't want to think about my girls even kissing boys before they're I don't know, 40, but in reality, I know it'll probably happen sooner. When did girls we knew as teens start, and how many of their parents knew about it? But that's a whole other debate...

Here is more info, although I realize that many think Dr. Mercola is a quack. It's an easy way to discredit the information he exposes.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Squalene-The-Swine-Flu-Vaccines-Dirty-Little-Secret-Exposed.aspx

How many times have we seen it happen before? Obligatory invasive health measures which are forced onto an entire generation/population/country, etc. which later are found to be a huge mistake. Tonsil removal. Apendix removal in the USSR. I believe one day people will look back and wonder how so many people went along with vaccination.

Erradication of disease is somewhat of a Holy Grail for pro-vaccination crowd, but that will never happen, new viruses are emerging all the time, mutating while humans are getting genetically less resistant.

We know that belief plays a huge role in health, so the true profitability of vaccinations is more likely to stem from the role it plays in maintaining the belief that you are helpless against disease and need outside help to cope with harmful agents that attack you from the outside, that you are not responsible for maintaining your body in good health and that it is preferable to delegate this responsibility to your Doctor and the pharmaceutical companies behind him. Everyone I know who believes the opposite- that we are each responsible 100% for our health, and that disease comes from the inside, from weak defenses, bad choices, the lack of a true inner desire to heal and live in health, every one of them is a bad client for the pharma companies.

Since you've asked, I have many reasons.
First, my aunt had a bedroom off the living room. In it lived her sister, who had gotten a measles vaccine and immediately became severely brain damaged. She spent from age 2 until her death at 60-ish in unconsciousness. When I attended high school, a classmate had a sister who was severly brain damaged as well. Same reason.

Second,I work in a virus lab. It hit me one day, after receiving a memo from my cell suppliers that a cell line was contaminated with monkey viruses. There is no way to scrub off the "resident" viruses in the manufacturing process. In the late 1960's it was discovered that the polio vaccine was contaminated with SV40. Fast forward to 2009- researchers are now finding SV40 in brain and bone tumours. (and these so-called "eggs" your flu virus are growing in, are fetal chickens still in the egg.) My tiny village has what I would consider a cluster of brain cancer- 3 people in the same class, of 60.

Thirdly, I just dont trust the governments. An Australian (retired) researcher who still works part-time has examined the genome of H1N1, and recognized it as something he helped develop. On Australian TV he thought that this pandemic was due to a virus "escaping" a lab. How odd that the genome contains DNA from animals from 3 continents. Even odder is an internet source that has provided the patent number of this virus. I did look it up online but would feel more comfortable getting a printed copy outside of internet sources, which could be faked. (sometime visit Youtube and look for "TMWKK", and view episode 7, entitled "the lovers."

And...I havent even addressed the chemical contents.

I did not and will not vaccinate. Of course there are scientists who want you to get vaccinated. They get paid by the drug companies to "research" and "develop" vaccines. Then the drug companies make millions.

Children who get normal childhood diseases like measles, mumps, chicken pox etc. have 10x the titers (what protects them from getting the disease again) than those who get vaccinated.

You should read Barbara Loe Fisher's book "A Shot in the Dark" and check out this website: http://www.nvic.org

Bottom line......Do you fully trust our Government .....If so go for it! Me not so much!

Annette, you have a baby on the way: have you had your H1N1 vaccination?