Guest Post: Whyser Let’s dig into the myths about aluminum injection vs. ingestion. I’m sure you’ve heard some. Here’s one: Dr. Paul Offit made this comment a few years back, published on CHOP website: “While infants receive about 4.4 milligrams* of aluminum in the first six months of life from
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Guest Post: Whyser You know, I wish provaxxers looked critically at their own studies that they believe to prove their own point. For example, the idea that vaccines are not associated to [insert your favorite adverse reaction here], is currently not strongly supported by any of available science that I’ve seen.
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It’s very simple: inflate the number of flu deaths to circulate fear, and sell more vaccines. Vaccinated people shed and spread virus, which causes more infections, and more deaths, which sells more vaccines. It’s a great marketing campaign, but is this ethical, and is the 80,000 number even true? The
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You may have never heard of VAERS before. VAERS stands for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. It is a passive surveillance system that collects vaccine injury reports from patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and more. This is the system in place that lets us know if there is a problem with
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It’s that time of year again, you know where the entrances of grocery stores and pharmacies are decorated with “Get Your Flu Shot” signs, and promises of a $5 gift card or a $5 discount on your groceries. There’s the flu shot hashtags #fightflu and the flu shot selfies–and of
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Step aside you pesky vaccines, Free Universal Health Care actually DOES save lives: Every other country in the world with lower Infant Mortality Rates all have something in common: they all have free universal health care. How many people do you know who don’t have health insurance? One in six
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From August 1978 to March 1979, 11 infants died suddenly and unexpectedly within eight days of their DPT vaccination, all in Tennessee. Nine of the 11 infants had received the same lot of DPT vaccine (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) from Wyeth Laboratories: lot 64201. Four of the 11 were dead in 24 hours.
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Whether you are pregnant with your first, or a grandpa to six rugrats: It’s never too late to start researching vaccines. Today, vaccines are increasingly recommended for every age group, from birth to teens to pregnancy to older adults. You might not know a single thing about vaccines, or maybe
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“There are two Shingles vaccines approved for use in the US: Zostavax was approved for use in 2006 (Merck), and Shingrix newly approved for use in 2017 (GlaxoSmithKline, GSK). Let’s Take a Look at Zostavax From the Zostavax insert: “Each dose contains 31.16 mg of sucrose, 15.58 mg of hydrolyzed porcine
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It’s pretty common to not be able to see one’s own flaws. But when we look at the United States in comparison to other countries, a few things become clear: For one, the United States spends more money per capita on maternity care (and health care) than any other country.
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“It is inadvertently affirmed in the Christian countries of Europe that the English are fools and madmen. Fools, because they give their children the small-pox to prevent their catching it; and madmen, because they wantonly communicate a certain and dreadful distemper to their children, merely to prevent an uncertain evil.”
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The Samoan government has launched an inquiry into the deaths of two one-year-old infants after they died within minutes of a routine MMR vaccination (Measles, Mumps and Rubella). It’s all over the news, but not American news. In fact, we don’t hear much about vaccine induced deaths at all. If
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Many people think vaccines are the greatest achievement in public health. They think that vaccines are safe and effective, they think injuries are one in a million, and they scoff at any relationship between vaccines and neurological disorders, allergies, and chronic diseases. If you even question the safety, or express
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Vaccine injury, maternal experience and spoken word rolled into one awesome video by Hillary Simpson: “Growing up, I have always held the belief that, “You go big or go home,” and unfortunately I have carried that with me into adulthood. With #crazymothers, I went big. I rented a stage and film
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When I gave birth to my first, I had done absolutely zero research on vaccines. I spent the whole nine months reading, learning and preparing for a natural childbirth that lasted a total of one day and did no research on raising a human which would last the entire rest
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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer There is possibly nothing crueler in this world than laying your healthy baby down to sleep only to find them the next morning cold and
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A recent study conducted by The Environmental Defense Fund found 20 percent of 2,164 baby food samples and 14 percent of all other 10,064 food samples had detectable levels of the dangerous neurotoxin lead. While it was reported by many news outlets, some astonishingly downplayed the finding, saying not to “freak out”.
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Recently Maine has been making headlines for some very different reasons. First off, the state was heralded for having the highest rate of toddler vaccinations out of the country, taking first place for having the largest percentage of children between 19 and 35 months old vaccinated with at least one
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New evidence has emerged linking Primodos, a 1960’s pregnancy test drug, to serious birth defects, as well as a major scandal and cover-up that hid that information from the public. The Sky News documentary Primodos: The Secret Drug Scandal details the groundbreaking and heartbreaking findings that Schering, the German drug company
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Raise your hand if you have ever read a scientific study? Or even looked at one. Scientific studies are these megaliths of information. They can be tedious to read, difficult to understand–after all, they are their own completely unique language. To a lay person, like me, we need other people
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