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Time to Outlaw Vaccine Propaganda?

September 4, 2012 By Norma 1 Comment

[SaneVax: The question is – where is the most propaganda coming from – medical consumers with legitimate concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy, or national health authorities? Pharmaceutical policy researcher at the University of Victoria, Allan Cassels, summed it up quite nicely in a recent article when he stated:

“At the end of the day, most parents just want to know the answer to one simple equation: what is the likelihood that a vaccine will prevent a deadly disease, versus what are the chances of a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine?  Shouldn’t this be a simple question to answer?  But it isn’t.   If public health authorities want to improve vaccination rates, they’d drop the patronizing assurances and start providing the public with some hard evidence of the benefits and harms of immunizing or not immunizing. And the media would help by not scorning parents who ask legitimate questions.  Only then will you see vaccination rates improve.”

The SaneVax team agrees, it is time to stop vilifying those who ask questions – their questions need honest, scientifically sound answers.]

Time to outlaw vaccine propaganda: Are we taking the easy way out by labeling vaccine questioners anti-science loonies?

By Alan Cassels

Vaccine Propaganda?

Are lifesaving vaccines being ignored by parents because of illegitimate safety concerns?

That’s what many prominent health pundits think, including André Picard at the Globe and Mail. When commenting on an apparent rise of whooping cough, Picard wrote that the increase was the result of parents “shunning vaccination in small but significant numbers because of imaginary fears largely concocted by quacks and charlatans.”

Steven Salzberg, a blogger at Forbes Magazine echoed this sentiment pointing to celebrity doctors who “use their medical degrees and their faux concern ‘for the children’ to frighten parents into keeping their kids unvaccinated.” Salzberg also added that the “the media has been complicit in spreading some anti-vaccine misinformation.”

I’d agree that the media might be a problem, adding to the illegitimate vaccine fear floating around, and likely reducing parents’ willingness to immunize their children. And we certainly have our share of charlatans and quacks in cyberspace, aided and abetted by cyberchondriacs of all stripes.

Yet there is real fear among parents, a fear that is palpable.

Read the entire article here.

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Comments

  1. Mindanoiha says

    September 5, 2012 at 10:21 am

    Excellent article. Posted the following comment there:

    – Many vaccine critics have studied the subject, including from unbiased sources for years and know more than the average doctor.
    – Nobody knows all the potential longterm risks for a vaccine. It is therefore impossible to weigh benefits against risks.
    – Vaccines destabilise the immune system.
    – Immune response is not the same as immunity.
    – Presence of antibodies cannot be correlated to immunity.
    – Infectious diseases are shown to decline before introduction of vaccine programs. The diseases decline as populations gain stronger natural immunity: they need access to clean water,sanitation, nutrition, shelter etc.
    – Herd immunity applies to naturally contracted diseases, not to vaccines. Vaccinating a large per cent of the population does not protect the rest from infectious diseases.
    http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/health/forced-vaccinations-government-and-the-public-interest-2-27045.html
    – Vaccines containing live strains present shedding/secondary transmission where the vaccinated act as reservoirs of infection and infect the unvaccinated.

    (Vaccination is simply injecting with a vaccine. It is not the same as immunisation!)

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