Vaccines

We know the importance of vaccinations, but my husband and I are also very hesitant to allow Rooster to have 6 shots at once with 8 different vaccines. So since birth we have been on a selective vaccine schedule that sorta follows Dr. Sears' guidelines.

This article I came across today is quite interesting although rather long.

But getting back to the safety issue, it is my contention that the science used to ‘prove’ MMR does not cause autism is simply inadequate. And I’m not the only person who thinks so: In my research yesterday I came across this video interview where you can see and hear Dr Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health in the USA, express her concern about the way in which a link between vaccination and autism has been so readily dismissed. She accuses the US Government health officials of deliberately not doing the scientific which would show, once and for all, whether vaccines can cause autism, and if so, what the extent of the risk is (so that parents can make an truly informed choice about whether to have their child vaccinated or not). And Dr Healy also suggests that the reason for why the US Government has not done the definitive scientific work is because it is afraid of what it might find when it looks. The interview concludes by Dr Healy stating that the question about whether vaccination can cause autism has still not been answered.

I have read that this vaccine debate is over - there is proof that there is no link. This is false, of course. There is no definitive proof either way. That makes it very, very curious as to why there aren't more studies out there looking into it. Perhaps because there aren't enough non-vaccinated children to study (a theory of Dr. Sears).