According to the GMC, Wakefield's research had been done unethically and for profit, and this was the reason for the retraction, NOT vindication of the MMR vaccine. Although vaccines definitely are necessary for the general public health, the intense vaccine schedule infants and toddlers are recommended should be researched much more before assuming all are safe. It seems to defy reason that a one day old infant should receive the Hepatitis B vaccine before leaving the hospital. And the burden of so many vaccines on such immature immune systems must be more carefully calculated. It makes much more sense to me to spread the vaccines out over time, and not load them together. As far as I am concerned, the jury is still out on the culpability of vaccines - perhaps just the overload, if not the vaccines themselves.
Monday, February 8, 2010
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Thank you for your intelligent insight on this. It is too bad some of your parents there at the center are ignorant to this view. Read their blogs. They are pathetic!
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