If it the video was beneficial to you, that's nice. I look forward to your synopsis!
Pro-vaccination websites constitute half a thimble's worth of the universal condemnation for Andrew Wakefield. The medical establishment has firmly and resoundingly censured him for his grotesquely unethical, fraudulent, and abusive actions that are documented and legally proven. Courts of law have not found in his favor. It's not about emotions, but an examination of the facts of his actions. The Lancet retracted his paper years before Facebook and its pro and anti vaccine pages existed. The medical community didn't just watch a few videos or pop onto some websites before castigating him; they actually thoroughly examined what he did first, in addition to the destructive ramifications of his actions. In January 2010, a tribunal of the GMC found three dozen charges against Wakefield proved, including four counts of dishonesty and 12 counts involving the abuse of developmentally challenged children. He subjected young children, including ones with autism, to unnecessary, painful, and invasive medical procedures, such as lumbar punctures and colonoscopies, without having obtained the proper permission from an ethical review board. His advocation of unfounded medical treatments such as bleach enemas for autistic children has led to distress and harm for them and their parents. Many parents of autistic children, including ones who were direct patients of his, have been vocal in their repudiation of him because of the harm caused to their kids.
He has become one of the most reviled doctors of his generation, blamed directly and indirectly, for irresponsibly starting a panic with tragic repercussions: vaccination rates so low that childhood diseases once all but eradicated, such as pertussis and measles, among them — have re-emerged, endangering young lives. I've had pertussis because of the endemic here and in tandem with my compromised immune system. 101 days of agony that made shingles feel like a few splinters in comparison. I've never shared my experiences on pro-vaccination groups, and rarely anywhere. His study consisted of only 12 children, but placed a thousand times that in the path of harm. In comparison most vaccine studies have thousands of participants. His paper has been unequivocally refuted by physicians around the world. His hospital dismissed him and he was stripped of his medical license. He's lost multiple lawsuits. Pro-vaccination sites have, if anything, a trivial amount of influence on the medical and legal community's rebuke of him.
His belief that the MMR vaccine caused autism is that the three vaccines, given together, can alter a child’s immune system. What he failed to disclose was that he had filed for a patent on a single-dose vaccine, so he had an extraordinary financial incentive to make parents selective about vaccinations.
As I explained in my post, I only watched the first five minutes of that video and disagreed with that portion. Disagreement was actually the improper word because it was a matter of facts rather than opinions. I provided credible references to explain the reasoning. I don't have much time this week so I won't provide detailed explanations for each point when you provide a synopsis. I was just trying to help you out on the first problem I identified. Tis all.
This is what confuzzles me about your research methodologies. It's not about respecting people for their behavior, but respecting evidence conducted and reviewed by a multitude of people with established credentials and a reputation that is respected
by their peers. With the abundance of reputable sites with clear and substantial evidence I don't understand utilizing sites where drama can even take place, such as Facebook, for research. Someone here told me about the Facebook site Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes, and I pop on there every once and a while, but never for the purpose of research or for solidifying or in any other way influencing my views on vaccines. Most "pro-vaccination" sites lack ads and are unsentimental, like the CDC, the Canadian Pediatric Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and such. We've been discussing this on my college's private forum and it's been respectful and undramatic even in mild disagreement. I don't know what sites you're frequenting.
Direct, undramatic, simmmmmmmple:
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/vaccine_safety
Most pro-vaccination people are part of the "silent majority" who rarely engage in controversy or bickering about vaccines unless personally affected. Busloads of anti-vaccination people have trekked to Sacramento to wave signs about SB 277 being a "Holocaust" while pro-vaccination people continued on with their days because they were confident the decision would be made based on facts rather than emotions. And they were totally right. It's easily won the votes with minimal effort from those who are pro-vaccination.
You didn't use to have any interest in this, and I regret asking you off-the-cuff about vaccines back in January during the measles outbreak here in LA, but was curious about whether you needed them for college. Prior to then you seemed content with your mom not believing in them. We're 17 and don't have children. I honestly had thought you'd spend a few minutes looking at your college's requirements for vaccines, and then would bring it up when you saw your doctor, and that would be that, ha. If you're wanting to be informed, I don't understand not just taking a class about it that focuses on the science of vaccines rather than emotions, or reading that book from the Canadian Pediatric Society you bought. I know you weren't interested in the one offered by the University of Pennsylvania for free on Coursera. Here's another free online course:
http://www.vaccineeducationonline.org
Straight-forward, user-friendly information is available directly from the Canadian Pediatric Society, the Canadian Immunization Guide, and other reputable sites. What else about the laws for vaccines are you wanting information on? Most of your siblings are homeschooled and therefore exempt from the Ontario requirement to provide proof of immunization for enrollment at schools. It's not illegal to not vaccinate your children in Canada, but the Public Health Minister was ardently encouraged citizens to take advantage of the free immunizations readily available there.
You can find PDFs of them laid out very neatly and simply. Are you looking at the recommendations for babies or for people our age? Here's some info for our age.
CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/who/teens/for-preteens-teens.html
http://www.vaccines.gov/who_and_when/college/
Canada:
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/immunization/static/immunization_tool.html#14-16
I did just find this about a mom whose teenager daughter died at college from meningitis while doing the Google search for vaccine recommendations for college students in Canada. The vaccine she's referencing is now available in the US but it wasn't when her daughter died.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...ing-mom-heads-canada-lifesaving-shots-n106646
Say what. You watched that video in a class? What class, and why? Did your mom have you watch it for one of your classes she teaches you, or was it a teacher from school? It would have been really helpful if he had actually posted the links to those studies, or at least listed them below the video. Most people aren't going to watch a video that long from a random small-town physician. It was just uploaded at the end of the April, so it's not like you've got to reach back into your memory from years ago, haha. Anyway........ hope you're having a good one today. OH! And I'm glad you got your laptop back and it's up and running. Whewwwwww.
