Are Child Immunizations Really Safe & Effective?

Have you ever wondered if childhood immunizations were necessary? Heard that there are people who are adamantly against allowing their children to be given immunizations? Here's a few links and opinions that may help you decide for yourself what is best for yourself and your children.

"My interest in vaccination arose out of a "gut" feeling not to do it that I have devoted a considerable part of my career trying to clarify. In this as in so many other ways, the study of homeopathy has helped me to articulate what my heart and soul already seemed to know. To recognize the organism as a totality of symptoms already implies that any more narrowly defined standards of vaccine effectiveness cannot possibly be adequate. Other glaring inconsistencies include enforcing compulsory vaccination laws in the absence of any public health emergency, and waiving the rules of scientific inquiry in their honor." Richard Moskowitz M.D.

Read more of this article at:
http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=1121

Want information from a variety of sources concerning specific vaccines? Visit this site:
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

Here are the CDC (Center for Disease Control) Guidelines for child immunizations:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/


Why vaccinate? According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control)

"It's much like bailing out a boat with a slow leak. When we started bailing, the boat was filled with water. But we have been bailing fast and hard, and now it is almost dry. We could say, "Good. The boat is dry now, so we can throw away the bucket and relax." But the leak hasn't stopped. Before long we'd notice a little water seeping in, and soon it might be back up to the same level as when we started." (More at: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/why.htm )


Why be wary of vaccinations? According to Consumercide.com:
http://www.consumercide.com/vaccinepol.html

"Those who question the efficacy or safety of vaccines have long been stigmatised by proponents of conventional medical doctrine as subject to either some sort of mental deficit, or perhaps an unwarranted phobia, paranoid neurosis or an ulterior pecuniary interest. However, vaccine dissidents do seem to exist outside of the halls of institutions for the cognitively disabled. For example, famous medical critics of the twentieth century such as George Bernard Shaw, Robert Mendelsohn and Ivan Illich, all noted the widespread dogmatic acceptance of the fundamental tenets of modern medicine.

They drew the analogy between religion and medicine as they pronounced their hereticism to the latter. To them, the questioning of vaccine safety or efficacy could indeed be construed as “heretical” to the medical faith, but not without substantial cause.

Despite the constant historic presence of vaccine dissent from a few highly visible spokespersons, the weight of social acceptance of vaccine practice means that the enterprise of vaccine dissent is always an arduous one. Critics of vaccination are frequently stereotyped and stigmatised, as stated above. As is usual for partisans in scientific controversies, the predominant goal of the defending orthodoxy has been to make attributions regarding dissident claims as due to "non-scientific" factors, whilst they buttress their own claims as the 'real' and the only scientifically validated ones. " http://www.consumercide.com/vaccinepol.html

Vaccination - The Hidden Truth (SEE VIDEO)
"This is the shocking but extremely informative video documentary Vaccination - The Hidden Truth (1998) where fifteen people, including Dr. Viera Scheibner (a PhD researcher), five medical doctors, and other researchers, reveal what is really going on in relation to illness and vaccines. Ironically, the important facts come from orthodox medicine's own peer-reviewed research. With so much government and medical promotion of vaccination for prevention of disease, the video is clearly devoted to presenting the other side of the issue that parents and others are not being told. The result is a damning account of the ineffectiveness of vaccines and their often harmful effects." http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/vaccines/index.htm (See Video made by medical professionals questioning effectiveness and safety of recommended vaccinations.)

Here is a great source for those contemplating immunization:
http://www.nvic.org/

I hope all of this information helps you make the critical decisions we all face concerning childhood immunizations.