Pinterest has blocked searches relating to vaccinations in an effort to curb misinformation. If you want a source, find it yourself as I don’t know what counts as “misinformation” these days
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Let me ask you a question. If you had a pain behind your right eye, who would you go to? My guess is your doctor. Not Pinterest. Right? If you want information about the severity of the flu this year you would not go to ebay. You would likely go to the CDC website where there is actually an extensive section devoted to the flu. It says, by the way, that they estimate flu deaths in the first four months of this season at as many as 19,000 Americans.) You might check with the Mayo Clinic site or Web MD. There are others.
We all know that there are websites devoted to just about every crackpot idea out there. On the subject of vaccinations one particularly bad site is "A Voice For Choice". It supposedly supports the right to make an informed choice. The site is rife with information that is simply wrong. For example. It tells parents that their babies will get aluminium (which they claim is a "neurotoxin") at a level deemed "unsafe by the FDA" from vaccinations! Well. They will get it. About 4 milligrams in the first year of life. That sounds bad. But. The fail to tell parents that aluminium is naturally occurring in breast milk in much greater quantities. Or that the average adult ingest more than double this amount every day from food.
This same website cites Dr. William Thompson and calls him a whistle blower for his claims of an association between MMR and autism in African American children. And the cite omits the fact that the study was withdrawn due to concerns about its validity during peer review. In other words, Thompson was wrong and admits it.
There is an amazing website I can refer you to: The Center for Vaccine Ethics & Policy. Read about it. Great information there.
Governance for the Center is led by Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Head, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Medical School, and the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, NYU Department of Population; and Dr. Paul A. Offit, professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of CHOP’s Vaccine Education Center. The Center’s Executive Director is David R. Curry, MS.
An Advisory Board provides additional oversight for CVEP and currently includes Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin, MD, Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania; Walter A. Orenstein, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and Associate Director, Emory Vaccine Center; Russel E. Kaufman, M.D. President Emeritus, Wistar Institute, and Christian Loucq, MD, former Director General, International Vaccine Institute (IVI).
Are they industry stooges? They get money from industry. In short. No. In fact, they studiously document all of their support and expressly reject influence in the form of corporate donations.
So there are sources out there. Lots of them. But one should not decide on the validity of a site based upon it position on a google search.
When I was a young person we had an extreme disadvantage in gathering information. Before the net we had to actually find hard copy resources and read the whole thing. So we had less information. But. We had an advantage too. We had to read the whole thing to get our information. There was not asearch algorithm deciding what I ought to see. The reason places like the aforementioned "A voice for Choice" exist at all is that search engines like Google give them an instant audience. And sometimes, the more outrageous the site is, the higher they rank. Many have come to see Google rank as tantamount to credibility. That is a huge mistake.
One of the things that professionals in this field (or any scientific field for that matter) do is look into the nooks and crannies of the available research. They are not basing their opinions on page one Google searches.
Number three on a Google search in a purchased position is a site called "Children's Health Defense". Who doen't want that. It is a very authoritative looking site. Yet on the very first statement that they make they say this:
The long-term health effects of our vaccine program are inadequately studied and our regulatory bodies are conflicted. Childhood health epidemics have mushroomed along with the childhood vaccine schedule. Vaccines contain many ingredients, some of which are known to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic and cause autoimmunity. Vaccines injuries can and do happen. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded almost $4 billion for vaccine injuries since 1988.
Is this true? Well. Not really. It is a deliberate distortion.
The long-term health effects of our vaccine program are inadequately studied and our regulatory bodies are conflicted.
This is patently wrong. There is nothing at all conflicted about our "regulatory bodies" which I note they do not identify.
Childhood health epidemics have mushroomed along with the childhood vaccine schedule.
What "epidemics"? I know of none. What has not "mushroomed" is the veritable plague of childhood death and injury that we formerly had before vaccination. I'll see your autism and raise you polio and diphtheria.
Vaccines contain many ingredients, some of which are known to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic and cause autoimmunity.
So does broccoli. None of these things are present in vaccines in dangerous quantities. And, oh by the way, what does "cause autoimmunity" actually mean medically? It is gibberish. That is what it means.
Vaccines injuries can and do happen. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded almost $4 billion for vaccine injuries since 1988.
This is a pittance. If you look at 2017 it is pennies per vaccination given. And compared to the cost of not vaccinating? It is simply a joke.
But that site is what some would like parents to read to make an "informed choice".
So. There you have it. The way you do it is to go to the real experts and take their recommendations. A person who would never even think of driving their car after their mechanic said their tires were unsafe, will leave their child in danger of the flu (which kills almost three times as many people as all car accidents combined) because of some infinitesimal chance that he/she might have a reaction to the vaccine. It defies credulity.