Since I was a child I knew that vaccines carried risk because I have an early memory of waking up at my neighbor’s house because my brother had been taken to the hospital after a seizure. The seizure was blamed on the ‘P’ of the old DPT vaccine. Besides the ‘P’ for my brother, he and I were otherwise fully vaccinated according to the much smaller vaccine schedule of the 80’s.
It wasn’t until the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019 that I really began to study the childhood vaccines. I was neither pro- nor anti-, just wanting to make the best possible health choices for my kids. Everything I looked at seemed to suggest that vaccines were perfectly safe and a no-brainer, though I understood that nothing is safe all of the time, nor do we know everything about the safety, especially the safety of an ever-increasing schedule. Even if vaccines were individually overwhelmingly safe and helpful, could there come a point at which too many vaccines caused other health problems? I wanted to see real questions and real science to answer the questions.
Here are some of the resources that finally started to ask and answer the questions that I had about the safety of the childhood vaccines.
Pivotal to my understanding regarding childhood vaccine safety was the exchange of a few letters between ICANdecide and HHS. It is the closest thing I could find to a true debate, where both sides get to present their evidence regarding the safety of childhood vaccines. It takes a long time to go through all these letters and their references. If you are short on time, or just want to get to the meat of the conversation, I recommend going to the 3rd letter entitled ICAN reply to HHS response which was written in December of 2018.
Another eye-opening experience for me was listening to the 9hr Dr. Stanley Plotkin (aka Godfather of Vaccines) deposition where he is questioned by lawyer Aaron Siri. The background is that this is a legal battle where a husband and wife are divorcing and the father wants their unvaccinated child to get vaccinated while the mother does not. https://rumble.com/vqc8l1-stanley-plotkin-vaccines-deposition-under-oath-9-hour-full-video.html
I was recently reminded of the Simpsonwood transcript. This is a FOIAed transcript of top health officials talking about the safety of thimerosal in some of the childhood vaccines.
Here is some of the background info you need to know to make sense of the transcript: https://truthsnitch.com/2019/05/01/excerpts-from-the-transcript-of-the-cdcs-private-simpsonwood-meeting/
And here is the transcript itself: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Simpsonwood-Documents.pdf
Here are some recent comments about the Simpsonwood transcript written by Steve Kirsch: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/what-really-happened-at-simpsonwood
While thimerosal has mostly been removed from childhood vaccines, isn’t it concerning that health officials tried to hide the fact that they believed it caused problems? And what if it wasn’t even the thimerosal causing problems, but is instead the aluminum? I have plenty of resources about aluminum concerns as well. Ask if you are interested in seeing a post about that!
I am not anti-vaccine, but I want adequate safety and proper risk/benefit analysis and I’m concerned that that doesn’t exist. I’d love to see the proper safety study of childhood vaccines become a more publicly acceptable discussion. What questions or concerns have you had about childhood vaccines and what resources have you found to answer those questions?
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