Tag: vaccination

The setting: 1976, here in America. The government and the media were ramping up a scare campaign regarding the swine flu, when the facts point to low risk of outbreak and vaccinations were known to be dangerous. Sound familiar? This is the 60 Minutes report that aired a couple years after, and aired only once…

This afternoon we got a call identified as NORC U CHICAGO at 312-201-4623. Did not answer, and the following voicemail was left: (click here to download/listen). The caller identified herself as being from the CDC and asking for child and vaccination information. Appears that the call is from The National Immunization Survey, collecting information related…

I’ve some some interesting conversations this week on Facebook. While I tend to be a fairly quiet and reserved person most of the time, but I do in fact have opinions, and while I may be quiet and reserved, I am not a doormat. One discussion was because of a political group I joined on…

Parents who choose to not vaccinate their children are now being called parasites by actress Amanda Peet. She’s initially apologized, but that was apparently the parents of autistic children whose parents many times believe vaccines are at least in part to blame. Of course, she didn’t apologize for the improper use of the word parasite,…

So a new “recommendation” by the CDC is that virtually every child age 6 months to 18 years be vaccinated, barring those with serious egg allergies. So the push begins to use a vaccine with less than 44% effectiveness (last year). One new way that are pushing it to adults now is a program called…

New article on Foxnews today: 7 Reasons to Worry as Your Kids Head Back to SchoolI have to take note of a particular paragraph…that they happened to list as the #1 reason–my comments are interspersed in red: The anti-vaccination movement. Misinformation about vaccines being linked to autism has spread like wildfire. As a result, some…