In case you haven’t noticed, the Pediatricians of America have declared war on parents in recent years.
They are bullying, coercing, and even downright threatening parents with expulsion from their practices if they do not comply with the required CDC vaccination schedule.
I myself have been expelled from several Pediatric practices over the years for questioning the excessive CDC schedule which now includes 68 vaccinations by age 11-12! When I was a child, I received 3!
I know firsthand the humiliation and tearful frustration one feels when someone in a white coat condescends to you, a “mere Mom”, and tells you to leave for not submitting to their authority.
The truth is, it didn’t used to be this way.
Prior to 1986 when Congress passed a law shielding doctors and vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits resulting from vaccine injury, Pediatricians used to be much more compassionate with their patients.
Doctors used to regularly recommend no further vaccinations if a child had experienced any vaccine injuries such as seizures – particularly seizures with no resulting fever – after a routine vaccination.
Shockingly enough, since the passage of this vaccine shielding law, seizures, high pitched screaming and even collapse on the part of a child is no longer considered by many doctors to be a good enough reason to halt further vaccinations.
It is critical as a parent to avoid confrontation and bullying at the Pediatrician’s office when trying to protect one’s child from vaccine injury. I’ve written a post before on How to Resist Pediatrician Pro-Vaccination Tactics, but the better strategy would be to just not go.
Find a Compassionate Pediatrician or Family Doctor who is willing to work with your family and establish a personalized healthcare strategy that works best for your child and his/her unique health history. These types of physicians are on the rise, so don’t take the abuse from your Pediatrician if they are practicing an overly rigid and uncompromising form of medicine. Vote with your feet and fire them first!
To locate the kind of Pediatrician or Family Doctor who has the mindset that matches that of your family and who does not try to shove all children into the same box based on the rigid and excessive CDC vaccination schedule, click here for a listing by state.
I highly recommend taking 4 minutes to watch this video below by National Vaccine Information Center President Barbara Loe Fisher. It will rock your world and likely change your view if you are on the fence about vaccination and need to get the inside scoop.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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Thank you for posting Sarah! I appreciate any posts that have to do with vaccinations or how to deal with childhood illness without drugs, if possible.
And thanks for the link to the list of pediatricians/doctors, I live in a town in Texas that is VERY medical with two huge hospitals and tons of doctors, and yet I can’t find even one Pediatrician in town who will see my 10 mos. old daughter because she has not received vaccines. I think we might end up having to drive two hours to Dallas to find someone who will accept her as a patient.
I have never used a ped. Always a family doctor (or “wellness” chiropractor.) In general, the family doctors have a bigger picture about health. We are rarely there but it’s nice to have someone for acute instances and sport/camp form stuff.
Tabitha–Are you in Tyler? If so, Dr. Moore at Appletree Pediatrics.
Tabatha–Just out of curiosity…are you in Waco? That’s where I’m from, and I just checked as well and found no one. My kids are older, so it was really just out of curiosity. I actually drive to Austin for veterinary services for my dog because I couldn’t find a vet in Waco who used a holistic approach and didn’t want to try and convince me that her vaccine reaction was not actually a vaccine reaction. Don’t be discouraged–drive wherever you need to in order to provide the best for your kids. For minor emergencies (stitches, etc…) there are always urgent care centers, which are a great resource.
Tabatha – where do you live? I live a hour and a half east of Dallas and have a good family General Practioner who sees us. None of my kids are vaccinated. My Email is poniegirl004@yahoo.com
Awesome. Doing a search on our new area (we just moved 1 month ago) reveals that there is NOT ONE SINGLE MD or DO in Georgia on this list. I have a great MD/naturopath, but our insurance won’t cover her until my kids are >15.
I’m not super concerned because my kids rarely visit a doctor, but this is ridiculous!
Just a few hours ago, my 4 1/2 year old son went to a pediatrician for the first time since he was 6 months old. I actually found the WAPF website while researching vaccinations, after he received his 2 month “shots”. After that… no more vaccinations! I do feel bad that he recieved that 1st Hep B shot, and the 2 month vaccinations. And despite my best efforts, I was unable to breastfeed past 2 months and he received formula. However, by the time he was a year old, he was receiving raw milk, grass fed and pastured meats and dairy, etc. He is one of the healthiest kids I know!
Recently we became concerned that he bruises easily, has faint shadows under his eyes (even though he gets plenty of sleep), and looks a little pale. Fortunately, our 1 1/2 year old son had been seeing a pediatrician that we have been happy with, so far. He was born by emergency C-section at 29 weeks, and was in the NICU for 53 days, so we had no choice but to see a pediatrician after his release. The doctor has been wonderful about our decision not to vax, but I admit, we told her we weren’t doing anything before he turned 2 years old, even though we plan to not vax ever.
So, we made an appointment for our older son to see her today to get an iron check. She was wonderful! Even though we were honest in the paperwork that he was “not up to date” on his vaccinations, she did not say one word about it. She was great with our son, who admittedly was a little scared of going to the doctor, since he has no memory of ever going before. Even better, it turns out that his iron levels were perfect, so there should be no reason to take him again any time soon. There are good pediatricians out there, and I’m so thankful that we were fortunate to find ours.
An excellent doctor is a gift in anyone’s life! If you find one, hang on tight!
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I brused easy until I started taking 2000 vit C everyday. maybe a kid doesn’t need as much not sure but vit C works
Thanks for the tip Megan! I’ll look into that.
your post is about vaccination but i feel like this is relevant in unnecessarily medicating children:
my husband is reading a book right now about adhd. the foreword is by a doctor that was involved with writing the most recent list of symptoms for ad(h)d in 1994. it said that the list is currently being revised and it going to include MORE symptoms. it’s going to be made public early 2013.
It’s the mindset of america: Why are drugs not only the first option in many instances, but equally, the only option? Why is every other TV commercial telling us how sick we are and how they have a pill for it, for everything, including farting?
Why is it that now, when a child is running around the house, no worse than you or I did as a child, we perceive of the kid as having a “condition”, and for that condition we have a pill? Why is it that when a child can’t focus on the matter at hand, never mind that there is a bevy of activity around him and his curiosity wanders (just like you and I when we were children, or now), we process it as the kid having a “condition”, and for that condition we have a pill?
Who is the lazy, inattentive, and most lacking parent that would so readily opt for giving their child these medications? Which parent, with all of the available literature on the prepubescent condition if u will, can’t consider that in many cases the problem might be emotional or anything other than genetic or whatever other rationale employed to make the case for giving these children these powerful drugs.? Many of these drugs are not even older than the kids. These drugs unlike the aspirin say or penicillin have not had a chance to stand the “test of time” – to bear much of the evidence that time and years of study affords. Even the older drugs are questionable and have not been around for centuries, that we may see some true long term effects.
@ Oliver: Why, you ask? THIS is the reason why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41_8hZoVKjE
I sincerely hope you take the time to watch. It will answer all your questions – and you will never feel the same about “modern” medicine again. It’s quite long, so divide it into 10-15 sections if you need to, but try to watch it all.
D – I’ve seen parts of that film before. I have a short attention span, so if it’s not Shawshank Redemption or any classic – I don’t have 3 hours to listen to that sort of stuff – the theme music turns me off…
My “questions” were more rhetorical, a truncated perspective of how I see it. We know, most of us, about the damages and ravages of drugs. We know too about the monster that is Pfizer et al. Most of us know about placebo dynamics etc. The question for me, which the film didn’t speak so much to was the mindset of America that is okay with it, that embraces it. How did we become a peoples that mostly first opts for drugs.
For me, there is the greater concern of the “culture” of America, and the world at large. The ways of thinking and certain ideals that nurture and give vitality to the accepting, embracing, and being “fine with” the bad condition of our health and death even, as a society, is a relatively new cultural mindset that at times may be more damaging than the diseases themselves.
Why do so many people have countertops running over with their pills and meds? Why is every medicine cabinet filled to the brim – allowing for the occasional humoring embarrassment of stuff spilling all over the place when guests spy on you to see what type of drug you’re taking?
Why do we even have medicine cabinets? I design and renovate homes on occaision and it only recently occurred to me that all of my designs, and all of the existing homes with their designs, have a space allotted for, and designed for, medicine, drugs. I know we store toothpaste, brushes, and hair care products among many other things in it, but nowhere is it called a “shampoo cabinet”. It again speaks to that commonality, that mindset, this culture of health and bad health as something that is to be expected, and having a spot in our homes to store our drugs is equally as important and necessary as having a shoe closet or food pantry. I personally only have some floss and a tooth brush in my cabinet, and if I lived alone it would have 3 remaining empty shelves – but that’s just me
I also don’t separate era’s of drugs – foreign chemicals are foreign chemicals – since the beginning of time – some knew to leave them alone, many embraced them. Now, today, money is in the equation as well and the stakes thus have become much higher.
I hear your passion though and that is good.
@ Oliver: If you would put aside your time in sequences you could watch the video and your questions would be answered but I can see you’re not really interested. You feign interest, but you don’t wanna take the time to REALLY know.
If you don’t know the history, you know nothing about how medicine works – which is why you still have questions.
Music? There’s hardly any music.
I have a medicine chest for my toothbrush, my mineral make-up and band-aids – that’s about it.
D- So let me get this straight, tell me if I’m right; Are you saying, are you suggesting, are you implying in any way shape or form that you, you who want me to watch some long video about helter skelter meds (with ominous music looming in and out), have the same approach to medicine cabinet usage as I do?
@ Oliver: Prolly. ;-> If you use yours for a toothbrush and some homemade toothpaste, some mineral make-up and a few assorted boxes of band-aids, then yeah. Gotta keep Barbie and Tinkerbell band-aids on hand for my g-daughter, and Thomas the tank engine for my g-son. They rarely need them, they just want them. I’ve been known to need Tinkerbell to stop a bleeding finger once in a while, myself.
That reminds me- I do have to pick up some band aids.
I need help. My almost 7 yr old is “up to date” with vaccs and luckily is very healthy and my 2 1/2 yr old is same. I dont want them to have any more vaccs and the more research i do the more scared i get. How do i go through that process or is it just finding the new dr and refusing. I cant home school-are they required by law to have all vaccs in public school? We live in florida. They have never had flu vacc. Thanks for any help!
Florida has a religious exemption .. just go to your local health department and ask for the vaccination exemption form (it is blue). You will need the child’s social security number and that’s it. I always took my video camera to film them if they gave me any hassle and then I would give the video to the local news. They might want you to have a private “consultation” (aka, parent guilt trip session) with one of the health department nurses, but this is NOT required. If they give you a hassle (most won’t) then just say you are going to film their refusal and contact the local news.
You DON’T have to state your reasons for your decision and DON”T have to be bullied into a “discussion”. Just say no and leave it at that. They can’t force you in Florida! Get your form and walk out. That is all you need to present to the school administration to get your child admitted.
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Sarah- I thought you and your readers would want to see this article from Infowars.com Now they want to take away our religious exemptions from shots! Scary!
http://www.infowars.com/in-vaccines-we-trust-vaccine-inventor-paul-offit-seeks-end-to-religious-and-philosophical-vaccine-exemptions/
I live in Florida and received a religious exemption for my 5 children 11 years ago. It was very easy and no hassle. Remember to hold onto that paper. My oldest son actually had to provide a copy to be admitted at the University of South Florida.
Thank you for posting this. And it doesn’t stop there. Children are being drugged at an alarming rate for what is basically a result of a the modern diet of sugar and processed foods. Then when you’re an adult, more medications are “needed”. it is out of control. I hope people wake up to this drug culture. Just say no!
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@Laura yes, in some cases children are being pushed into taking medications as well that were never approved or designed for children. The problem definitely extends beyond just vaccination.
Delaware has no doctors on the list. My son has ADHD and contracted shingles after his chicken pox vaccine. I was then bullied into vaccinating him with the second dose. Spectrum disorder kids don’t detox well; why don’t doctors know that and advise us accordingly? With our 5 month old we are going to now try to hold off the remaining vaccines until he’s 2. Is that our best choice?
We were thrown out of our first ped’s office because of refusal to follow their vaccination schedule. It was a blessing. We now have a very laid back and open minded Ped willing to work with our family. Still looking for a pediatric dentist though. Can’t find one willing to admit that fluoride is poison.
absolutley frighting! we a fortunate that our Pediattion is not about the latest technology unless warranted…and a few friends we referred to him were a mixed bag of thinking he didn;t do enough, he tries to see if the body can heal itself 1st, works for us as that is much better than additional chemicals via drugs etc.
We recently moved and, obviously, needed to find a new doctor. On one of your posts about vaccines you recommended seeing a family physician instead of a pediatrician as they often have a different perspective. Thank you for that piece of advice! I was absolutely stunned when I brought up the issue of vaccinations and she said, ‘it is your choice!’ After being lectured by two doctors in the past year for not vaccinating my 7 mo, her words were such a relief to hear. (and gave me a little hope!)
The girl at CVS today wanted me to come in for a flu shot! Ummm, no thanks. I feel great and want to keep it that way.
I am thankful for Dr. Berger in Tampa who is open minded, compassionate, reasonable and uses a holistic approach while respectfully treating children. He never even flinched when I told him my daughter was not vaccinated, but simply asked why and documented…it as a professional should. We are lucky to have him. He can be found at: http://wholisticpeds.com/
First Do no harm!
my ped spent a year on every invasive test possible for kidney infection then suggested not consuming soda, which took care of the trouble. diet should have been the first consideration!
Very thankful to live in the Dallas area with a handful of natural-friendly doctors. I keep telling my oldest that he just needs to be a chiropractor or naturopath when he grows up so we can all keep healthy!
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Hi Valerie,
We are moving to Dallas very soon, and I have been searching for a family doctor! It seems that referrals from other like-minded people are the best way to find these great docs! Would you mind sharing the “handful of natural-friendly doctors” you are aware of in that area? Thanks!
layne.rotramel@gmail.com
@Deb but all that testing is so very profitable which is why they do it and ignore diet most of the time because they would lose business by actually healing people.
It also helps to insulate them from costly litigation. Lawyers have done every bit as much damage to our health care system as the insurance companies.
“The money is in the medicine not the cure”
@ Linda: Unless people can find a lawyer who thinks the same of medicine as Jonathan Emord, you’re likely right about that. I just watched a youtube vid today (it was titled something about raw milk, but in reality it was about a LOT more than that – it was fascinating, but long) and I also have his books – excellent reading. Global Censorship of Health Information is the first book, and Rise of Tyranny is the second book. I bought them both through amazon a while ago and they were kinda expensive, but they probably aren’t as much now. Great reading and viewing if you’re up for it.
Many pediatricians have become arrogant, loathsome bullies, But there is another reason why so many of these are so rude, frightening and manipulative when they push vaccines – money.
Many health insurance companies will give substantial bonuses to Pediatricians who can show that every child in their practice has complied with the CDC vaccination schedule. It one of these greedy bullies throws you out of there practice, they have done you a favor.
Sarah, I am so proud of you for being fired by all those lousy pediatricians! I know it was horrible at the time, but you had the courage and wisdom to fight for your children, and you would not give in to lies, threats, and intimidation.
Our children should not be profit centers for greedy doctors and drug companies.
This post gives parents an alternative. Thank you for doing it.
I think there is more to it than that. I think doctors themselves have been bullied into requiring vaccination or risk losing their jobs, their reputations, and even their license to practice medicine.
I know of someone who quit emergency medicine because he was tired of having to comprimise on the care he wanted to give versus the care he was EXPECTED to give.
VACCINES:HYPE OR HYPE? — All of the diseases that ever plagued man in the past, still exist today in one manifestation or another – including polio and smallpox which are the first things many people put forth as “cured diseases” –also used as a great case for the benefits of vaccines.
Yes, many for so long have been under the impression that “polio and smallpox is cured” or that the vaccines has successfully done away the onset of their symptoms. This is wrong – and a big part of the fear mongering associated with vaccines. If you ask any doctor or expert on what the symptoms are for polio or smallpox they will all tell you pretty much the same things: fever, sore throat, nausea, muscle aches and abdominal pain, vomiting, “flu like symptoms”, constipation. This just in – we all have polio and smallpox – or we don’t. Meningitis is also a condition of polio. We still have plenty of that around as well. With the exception of meningitis or any other bacterial infection that could use better treatment, have an orange, get some rest and your “polio” will be over in good time. There is not one symptom of polio that is unique or exclusive to polio to make the claims that we cured it, it has been eradicated, or that the vaccine works in terms of doing away with its symptoms.
I am not out rightly against vaccines. On the face of it we have seen them do some good, here, and in truly underdeveloped nations where disease is rampant. It’s just that it is uber important to know and understand that we are all truly so vastly different physiologically. We need to speak to vaccine makers and remind them that giving one formula to many is also a slippery slope, and just because they have you fill out a form where you check off a few items, it is in no way a complete picture of an individual’s physiological self – a complete picture that is vital when injecting something into someone’s bloodstream, or the veins of teenage girls because of the latest craze or hysteria – An “epidemic” born perhaps of fear mongering and profit – and when something goes wrong with your child, when that “oops” moment occurs (and it occurs more often than is let on), you the public has little if any recourse – because prior to injection you signed some type of waiver of liability.
Many geneticists are only recently realizing that we are all different and we all respond to plagues differently. Even members of the same family will not have the exact genetic line that predisposes them to the bubonic plague, malaria or the flu. Conversely, if most of science and medicine continues to paint a broad picture and maintain a generic mindset about drugs and vaccines created, what we are really creating is new strains of these viruses as they interact with each individuals physiology – which will require newer, different, drugs and vaccines and the cycle will never end.
I hate to bring up the profit and money issue, but let’s have a wee tiny peek at the bottom line for a moment: Gardasil, the HPV vaccine which is being thrust upon our young daughters and sisters, is currently being offered for approximately $120 per single dose. Three doses are required over a 6-month period, making the total cost for the HPV vaccine about $360. On top of that, some doctors are charging office visit fees when the vaccine is given.
So you figure how many girls there are in America- one million? Twelve million? Although I’m sure the number of girls between 9 and 26 is probably double, let’s say there are 12 million. 12 million times $360 over a six month period of time; 360 x 12, 000 000 = $4,320,000,000 — Wow, that’s great business. Any business that can rake in 4 billion dollars in half a year should get some type of award. And even if the rare clinic is giving the vaccine for free, someone is still paying for it and someone is still receiving that payment. A detective right about now would say “right there is your modus operandi for promoting these vaccines so aggressively”.
The vaccine business is just that, a business. A lucrative one at that. If it was free of cost and no one profited from it, it would never have had any real legs and would have died out as a treatment long ago. Unlike selling millions of laptops, vaccines can be dangerous and we truly don’t know enough about them to guarantee anyone’s safety, child or adult. All of these “plagues”to which we develop a new vaccine for are mutants, variations on a theme or newbies (as in all new species). Vaccines can, while appearing to eliminate the chance of you getting scarlet fever, set your body and our species down another road yet again, another different road with a new set of complications –complications that will require new remedies.
Are vaccines helping to solve our health problems or contributing to the increased health problems? Something has to explain all the new diseases, viruses and strains etc. that we have. Yet and still, we line up our kids and inject them with diphtheria. Do you really think at this rate we could ever get back to that original genetic makeup of our earliest ancestors who were truly strong and virile, and resistant to many things? While I muse about dumpster diving as a way to built up a strong resistance to many diseases, I personally know a lot of folk who would much rather let their kids develop their immunities naturally, the way the heavens intended. It doesn’t satisfy me when science states that many more people have “survived and thrived” with their vaccinations than have not, because medical scientists should know that cell mutation may take decades to develop into some new malignant strain of something deadly.
Sorry everyone for the long post
hahaha you sound just like me on my soap box as they say. post is good
I get carried away sometimes…..
I wanted to watch the video, but it says that it has been removed by the user. Do you know why this happens?
Same here! Video was removed??? Hmmm
the video has been removed???
Weird .. I have no idea why. I will email NVIC.
I know there was a typo in the title of it … perhaps they are trying to fix it and then reupload.
That’s the only way to fix stuff as far as I know based on my experience working with Youtube.
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All you have to do is go directly to youtube.com and type in the title or type in barbara loe fisher or something and you can find it yourself. It’s that way with a lot of youtube stuff because it’s posted by so many folks, sometimes. I think they clean house and get rid of some of the stuff that gets uploaded time after time.
Thanks Sarah for bringing such good information to light. I just watched The Greater Good DVD. I consider it a must watch for parents. We need to be informed. One of my daughters is expecting in January and I am glad she is willing to watch the video and question the need. The Hep B at birth just floors me. I also have a son with autism and I believe that there is a link to all the “required” shots and the increase in autism. Because he is adopted I don’t know if there was a big change after his shots, but I do know we can’t keep pumping toxic chemicals into him if we want him to heal. I also have a 13 year-old daughter (I have 9 children ranging in age from 9-26 if you are wondering) who the Dr. tried to get me to give the HPV vaccine. No way! Especially after watching The Greater Good and hearing how it was fast tracked plus the low probability of death from cervical cancer if she gets her pap smears. I had cervical cancer, I know it is serious, but I also know it is easy to treat when you are getting pap smears every year and it is caught early. Ok thanks for listening you know way to much about my family now.
Tried to watch the video, but it has apparently been removed by the user. Why???
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Try this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpe1Q4S4Njc&feature=player_embedded
Or, as was mentioned before, just go to youtube.com and type in the title of the vid, or barbara’s name and then look through the selections on the right-hand side of the screen.
Thanks for this post…I have struggled with this on and off since my son was born in December of 2007. His first pediatrician was AMAZING and totally fine with us doing a delayed schedule, but then we moved…next pediatrician was really rude about it and used phrases like “parental weirdness about vaccinations” and rolled his eyes and scoffed when I said that we were not going to do the polio vaccine. We switched to a kind man who would prefer that we fully vaccinate but knows that our decision has been incredibly well-researched. We have now switched again to a D.O. in Family Medicine who is totally fine with our decision. BUT IT SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE THIS HARD.
If any one is having trouble viewing the video that sarah posted – just go to youtube and type in “Barbara Loe Fisher” – you can see all of her interviews etc. You cant just google barbara or you find a blocked video – go to youtube first, then type in on their search engine Barbara Loe Fisher
I am not finding the video recommended above. I did find this one, but I don’t think it is the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-U9YRpL348&feature=relmfu
or type in Paul Offit and get your vaccine info from some one qualified to give it.
Paul Offit is a monster who has made millions from his vaccines. If he weren’t making so much money from the vaccines he espouses he’d be a little more believable.
You have got to be joking! Paul Offit doesn’t care the tiniest bit about the health of children. He only cares about keeping the money coming into his pockets!
he is a monster? your basing this off of what? the fact that he created a vaccine and made money from it. welcome to how the world works. clearly you know nothing of his background, history or credentials. so many of you believe what you think it right based off if no sound science. Barbara Loe Fisher… great speaker and activist but so much of what she has been preaching has been proven wrong.
it’s really ashame to call someone a “monster” basemen you know nothing about him and clearly about the subject matter.
Nice try, Barb, but there are many doctors – yeah real MDs, who disagree with Paul Offit. I’ve done my research and wouldn’t inject the stuff from which vaccines are derived into my kids for all the money in the world. It’s an easy money maker for pharmaceutical companies who can’t come up with new antiboditics to “cure” the drugs they invented in the firt place and that are now causing health problems.
Vaccines don’t have to be tested to be marketed thanks to government payoffs (?). Lobbying has seen to that. We are the guinea pigs for anything the medical and pharmaceutical industries want to throw at us. I hope ;you change your mind someday, and given time, I have a feeling you may.
@ beth: Here’s some information concerning Paul Offit from another MD. If you still feel the same about him after you read this, then you probably belong in a different camp than most of us who read and post here. Yay for Suzanne Humphries. If she and Offit were in the ring, she’d have a KO on him with this article.
This is very long, but it’s well worth the time and effort it takes to plow through it. If more young parents would read this with an open head and heart, I’d have a lot less work to do in trying to convince them that vaccination is not immunization.
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/paul-offit-threatens-all-vaccine-exemptions-md-responds1
[quote from article]:
Paul Offit claims to be an unbiased scientist with no personal interest in vaccination. To me, this does not make sense. In 2008 while sitting on the ACIP as a voting member, Children’s Hospital Of Pennsylvania sold its royalty stake in Offit’s vaccine RotaTeq for $182 million, and Offit received an unspecified percentage: his share of the intellectual property, said to be “in the millions.” Why doesn’t he just call himself what he really is?
A “multimillionaire vaccine patent owner who, by INFLUENCING IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES while sitting on the Advisory Committee For Immunization Practices, had a huge personal interest in policymaking, and wants to remove your personal rights as to what goes into your infant and your body by way of injection, and touts his own personal feelings on religion and wisdom to naïve doctors over the internet.”
According to a 2009 Philadelphia Magazine interview with Offit, a reporter asked him once if he was the Antichrist, and he replied, “I’m just one of the Devil’s many humble servants.”
[end of quote]
It’s a good thing he has so much respect for himself, because I doubt there are very many other people who do, unless they’re exactly like him. Ugh. But you gotta read the whole article to get the bigger picture of the guy.
I’m sorry, that last post should have been addressed to barb, not beth. Sorry!
Oh wow…..I feel ashamed. My 6 year old is current on her vacs – all because my pediatrician guilt tripped me into doing it. Why did I only get 3 when I was a kid. I just found WAPF and Sarah’s website so am very new to this way of eating. Does anyone on this board give any vaccinations to your kid? If so, which ones and why or why not? Is the risk low of getting these diseases and you’d rather just deal with the disease itself? Please don’t get mad at me – I’m just a newbie wondering about the specifics of choosing not vaccinate. This way I can be armed with good info.
Does anyone know why they force the vaccines? And so we have to vaccinate in Calif? I will be looking up the vaccine requirements here. My daughter had tested positive for TB when she was four and immediately was prescribed the antibiotics for it. I refused to give it to her knowing she had not been exposed. Her pediatrician looked at me like I had a third head. We repeated the test, and she was negative. Anyone here have older kids with no vaccinations? I’d love to hear your stories and experiences.
Thank so much. This website and board comments have been very informative.
I am an RN and my 11 year old is unvaccinated and my sister’s two girls are 16 & 18 and are also unvaccinated. I use “standard” medicine when necessary and natural medicine when necessary. My 11 year old has been to the doctor maybe half a dozen times in her life. When she needs a doctor, I take her! You can find most information that you need from this perspective at NVIC.org, including why, what each state’s exemptions are, information about making decisions, how to justify your choice to claim a religious exemption even if you are practicing a common religion such as Catholicism, etc. There are also a number of books on the subject. Dr. Mercola is also a good resource if you want the perspective of a widely known MD. mercola.com
@McCort-
There are scores upon scores of kids who have not been vaccinated (as in millions). As Michelle said of hers, there are possibly some more on this blog – Scarily, the issue of who has or has not been vaccinated may become like some WW2 movie where people might be afraid to speak out that thier child has not been vaccinated – for fear of being thrown in the Gulag…
At some point, humans need to be able to develop their immunties naturally – hopefully, with more people speaking up – on both sides of the isle, and on both sides of the profit margin, we may begin to get back to a more relaxed approach to allowing people the natural and genuine freedoms to raise their children as they wish.
please do your research and do not take advice from people who aren’t qualified to give it.
a lot (not all) of vaccines save lives.
I believe this is the correct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpe1Q4S4Njc&list=UUTbv00llRk6swnpCjrXiAhg&index=1&feature=plcp
That looks right to me. Thank you for finding it, Ron.
so much for that oath…
The statement “shielding” the doctors and drug manufactoring companies from lawsuit should be the eye openner. Moving past what the so-called law is, has anyone wondered why this is? Has anyone thought of a remedy other than finding a caring doctor that will not push the issue?
One could claim religious reason to not allow anyone to inject your child with these “surprise” chemicals. There is also the expatriation from the private civil law congressmen have instituted against the people. The same people these buffoons in political offices supposedy took an oath to protect.
It is unfortunate, but every little dirt problem we face leads to politics. There is a maxim of law that says, “if you accept the benefit, you should also accept the disadvantage”. The benefit is voting for these clowns, giving them the power to institute laws repugnant to natural law and Nature’s God (scripture) – to take care of us; the disadvantage is that we cannot say anything contrary to what they are doing. Why? Because you people put them in office in the first place.
However, there is a remedy, and it is not a bloody revolution.
Blessings,
Liam Marcus
Indeed Liam. The revolution is happening between the ears. Critical thinking, asking questions and identifying inconsistencies in logic so that when I make a choice for myself it clearly benefits me and those I care for. This of course is called the Trivium Method of Critical thinking. Check it out. http://www.triviumeducation.com/
What happened to the video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpe1Q4S4Njc&list=UUTbv00llRk6swnpCjrXiAhg&index=1&feature=plcp
The video is back up now … they took it down to correct a typo in the title of the video.
Check it out!
Unfortunately we have come to the point in time where Doctors are no longer solely in business to help people. They are in it to make money. And why not? They deserve to be paid for their expertise and years spent in med school. BUT they are getting further and further away from that original calling to help others. A doctors office is a BUSINESS and they will do and conform to whatever the government and insurance companies asks to get paid. Right now they are all about following the governments agenda on vaccinations and MANY OTHER THINGS. Find a small local Dr that bucks the trend and works with you. Not one that bullies so that it can get its Federal Grant Money – or whatever the case maybe.
your offensive
Yes this is breath of fresh air!!! am so concerned about drugging kids due to ADHD.
@ Emercita….My 11 year old has some mild sensory processing dysfunction, (which is often diagnosed as ADHD), and I have never medicated her….but I have also never gone to a standard medical practitioner about this issue or I’m sure they would have suggested that course of action. I do use some homeopathy and supplements and currently have her in OT and have had her in play therapy intermittently for many years. I also try to educate myself on how to manage and help her and have read “The Out of Sync Child” etc. Drugs are a really bad band-aid. It is my goal to help her to overcome her dysfunction as much as possible and learn to manage her life despite those obstacles…..learn positive coping mechanisms, reign in her brain when she is lacking in focus etc.
@Robin – your best choice would be to say NO to further vaccinations for your children.
No listings for IL (or any state I tried).
Can somebody recommend a D.O. for me in the Chicago area please?
We were thrown out of our last pediatricians practice for not being willing to sign a vaccine refusal form which stated we were “knowingly endangering the health and lives of our children and the health and lives of the children in our community.” When I said I didn’t agree with that statement and wouldn’t sign my name to it the doctor replied, “Well, you are!” and showed me the door.
We absolutely love our new family practice doctor who is in his 60′s and has seen it all over the course of his career. He no longer administers vaccines in his office but instead sends patients who want them to public health. What a breath of fresh air! He also first looks to diet and natural remedies before considering medications for his patients. We need more doctors like him in this day and age!
Thank you Sarah for all the time you put into finding the truth about things and voicing them.
Everybody wants to get rich on the expense of honest, unsuspecting commoners who only want the best healthcare for those they love. Doctors aren’t so different from lawyers, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, etc. Finding one that puts his oath above anything else is like finding a needle in a haystack in these “for profit only” business these days. Needless to say, it is as if the regular people are bottom feeders, hence, guinea pigs. Now, looking on the other side of the fence, I have never encountered any adverse effects from vaccination and so are my kids. The new ones, like the hpv vaccine is the one I am not very keen for the moment. I read about it and the effects are scary. I am not ready yet to have any of my children get the vaccine. Maybe when it is completely rid of its life long damage.
You mean the Dr. Offit whose incomprehensible statement, “an infant can safely receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once,” will live on in infamy?
Dr. Offit’s conflict of interest is VERY well documented. If you want to look something up….be my guest. See: http://www.politicolnews.com/vaccines-and-dr-paul-offit/
or
http://thedobbsfraudreport.blogspot.com/2008/04/from-jim-mercola-vaccine-autism.html
or
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/06/25/vaccine-doctor-given-at-least-30-million-dollars-to-push-vaccines.aspx
I’m glad the video is back up! I was disappointed when I found it removed!
The vaccine agenda is extraordinarily dangerous to children. This issue is too important for parents not to investigate thoroughly. Men like Paul Offit and Bill Gates and NOT doing what is in the best interest of the world’s children. We really need to protect our children from fear-based medicine and the MDs who follow the lock-step of the pharmaceutical companies.
Read about Gates’ latest move against anti-vaccine activist groups:
http://www.ewwherbals.com/dyk/2012/8/31/bill-gates-funding-anti-vaccine-group-surveillance.html
And to study the issue of vaccination harm in depth, look at:
http://www.radicallynatural.com/2012/04/protecting-our-children-from-fear-based.html
Sarah, if you ever doubted you have a purpose, this discussion says it all. My children are grown and have children of their own, but moms need to know what they are getting into now a days, and this venue allows them that privilege. I only wish I had known what I know now. Keep up the good work. And moms: Listen and take notes!
Another aspect of vaccinations which most people don’t even know about because you rarely will hear about it, is that VACCINES SHED. Just do some research on the new flumist nasal vaccinations for children. I am a person who reacts (or should I say my body over-reacts) to things – especially chemical things – so I happen to know this is true from a very serious happenstance years ago. It’s not new, it’s been around for some time.
And certainly NO ONE should let themselves be taken in by our broken medical system, in any case not for something like the flu. I’ve had, and survived, the flu a dozen times or more in my lifetime. Some of them were really bad. In 2002 I had Influenza A and B at the same time and was sick as a dog for 10 days. That doesn’t make me want to take a flu shot or an up-the-nose fluMist dose any more than I want to cut off my right arm.
Interesting vid here about flumist and shedding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-toGxFOeDY I highly question Tom Moore (the dood from the video), where he states (with authority, of course!!) that even though this live virus is shot up the nose it cannot travel to the lungs. I say bull puckey. When we have a whole new generation of kids with lung disorders (it’s happening already, actually) we’ll sit around and watch the medical industry revisit that statement with a mere “oops”. I’m sure that’ll make people feel a lot better, won’t it?
Guess I am screwed. Not one single doctor listing for the state of Indiana:/
I am in Florida.
Denise Punger MD
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twofloridadocs.com
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