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The Parental is Political

What do vaccinations have to do with politics?

By Julie Marsh

Questioning vaccines is not synonymous with being anti-vaccine. Vaccine injury happens more frequently than industry and the CDC would like the public to know, as many soldiers can attest ("Vaccine A" by Gary Matsumoto), and VAERS only reports about 10%. Even so, more than $750,000,000 has been paid out by the contentious NVICP.

Conflicts of interest are rife in the vaccine schedule decision-making process; look at ACIP and the NIP. Lazy media regurgigating press releases and CDC web inaccuracies encourage consumers to passively take their shots without investigating whether the ingredients may have unintended negative effects.

Toxicologists, chemists and occupational physicians have a much more critical concern over injecting ethylmercury into infants than do immunologists paid to promote vaccination. Yet the media continues to promote the "parents vs. scientists" notion. In many cases, the parents ARE the scientists, doctors, nurses, legislators etc. who have vaccine-injured children and altruistically want to prevent it from happening to others.

Unfortunately disease scaremongerers have ensured that industry is protected from liability for faulty products, and honest consumers reporting problems with vaccines are suffering as a result.

Posted by: nhokkanen | Jul 04, 2007 16:39

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