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How Safe Are Vaccines?
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This week's Time Magazine cover story delves deep into the question that has crossed every parent's mind: How safe are vaccines?
Spurred by claims that vaccinations can be linked to autism, increasing numbers of parents are raising questions about whether vaccines are actually harmful to children. When the immune system of a baby or young child is just coming online, is it such a good idea to challenge it with antigens to so many bugs? Have the safety, efficacy and side effects of this flood of inoculations really been worked through? Just last month the U.S. government, which has always stood by the safety of vaccines, acknowledged that a 9-year-old Georgia girl with a preexisting cellular disease had been made worse by inoculations she had received as an infant, which "significantly aggravated" the condition, resulting in a brain disorder with autism-like symptoms. So, should we vaccinate our kids, or not?
Read the whole article here.
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The way you phrased this “article” does a disservice to readers. When I read this excerpt it seemed that the article was linking autism with vaccines. In reading the ENTIRE article, though, it debunked AGAIN the idea that autism is linked with vaccinations and talked about the dangers of unvaccinated kids in today’s world. The article very clearly says that “The notion that too many vaccines can overwhelm the immune system is just not based on good science,” says Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. I realize it is a provocative conversation, but people who aren’t doing in-depth research and basing their decisions on things like this (and you know they are, just read the discussions) are endangering their kids and others.