All this shows the case for public sponsored and independently scrutinised research. But it also amazes me that in my quick flick through the comments here (not a statistical sample I grant you) that no one talks about the dangers of getting the diseases in question. Measles for one used to kill, maim and blind huge numbers of children. Parents used to live in dread of their children catching diphtheria or whooping cough. And what about small pox?

It probably isn't great to have mercury in the vaccine and I'm all for making the vaccines as benign as possible; but to do without them, you have got to be crazy!
We need full independent information on the vaccines - but we also need to know the true consequences of not taking the vaccines and these are too often over looked in the debate.

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If someone else posted this, I apologize. I felt this needed to be shared.
I have lost my confidence in scientists, and research.
Please read this story;.

Groundbreaking Primate Study Links Mercury Vaccine Preservative to Brain Injury

Download image Same preservative used in H1N1 Shots Puts Children at Risk for Brainstem Injury

NIXA, Mo., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study in the leading scientific journal NeuroToxicology lends further credence to parents and scientists concerned about an increasingly aggressive childhood vaccine schedule and toxic vaccine components. A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that infant macaque monkeys receiving a single Hepatitis B vaccine containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal underwent significant delays in developing critical reflexes controlled by the brainstem. The infant macaques that did not receive vaccines developed normally.

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Government vaccine guidelines were expanded in 1991 to include a Hepatitis B vaccine for infants within the first few days of life, even though the disease is primarily transmitted sexually or spread through the use of dirty needles. The introduction of the shot was part of a greatly accelerated vaccine schedule that coincides with the drastic increase in autism, which now affects one in 100 American children. Thimerosal was removed from U.S. Hepatitis B vaccines in 2000 but was not re

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http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6351515212287981735#

The above is a link to a documentary called Are Vaccines Safe? It covers just about everything you'd ever need to know about the subject and provides the references if you want to check them yourself. It's quite lengthy but worth watching whether you are for or against vaccines. This should be mandatory watching for all parents-to-be and current parents.

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To Sandra: What makes you believe that the HUGE studies by big pharma and the doctors on their payroll are unbiased? Just because their authors make that claim? There is not even a reliable reporting system for side effects from vaccines. Moreover, many doctors simply dismiss apparent side effects as unrelated and therefore don't report them. How can studies based on such skewed information be called unbiased?

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Look, I despise Big Pharma, their TV ads, and their lackies in Congress as much as anybody. But that doesn't mean Tylenol doesn't work! The same goes for vaccines -- a number of HUGE studies have shown that vaccines don't cause autism. As for the formeldahyde in there, a baby's body produces far more formeldahyde than what is in the vaccine. Mercury is bad, and I'm sure that a huge dose of it could cause autism, but vaccines simply don't contain enough of the chemical to do it. And I can't help but notice that anti-vaccine advocates just say "there's mercury in there!" instead of referring to any peer-reviewed statistics. So as much as I want to sympathize with the "parental choice" people, I believe that they need to put the results of unbiased scientific studies ahead of their (understandable) mistrust of Big Pharma.

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Actually, there are still traces of mercury in most vaccines. It is still used in the process, then removed later.
See:
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/rappoportinterviewvaccineresearcherjan2002.shtml
http://stanford.wellsphere.com/autism-autism-spectrum-article/has-thimerosal-actually-been-removed-from-vaccines-if-not-of-what-value-are-the-epidemiological-studies/547622
http://www.naturalnews.com/011764.html

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Many states allow you to waiver any and all vaccinations for your children. I live in Colorado and on the back of the vaccination form (to show schools and childcare) is the waiver to refuse one or all vaccinations.

We are allowed to refuse vaccinations for medical, religious and also personal reasons!

Be educated before you vaccinate. Some have high risks from vaccination and barely any risks from the disease, while others have serious disease side effects with low vaccination side effects.

Against my DR's wishes I refused rotovirus for my 4 month old and 2 months later it was taken off the market. I refused Hep B because it has no benefit for a baby only teenagers and they can't even prove that it is still effective 15 yrs later!

I refused all vacinations and I have some very intelligent and healthy children- along with healthy lifestyle and good food choices.

When my 7yr old need the tetnus shot after a dog bite he got it. He had an obvious need.

Make educated decisions!

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Everyone, please watch this short video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/280.html
In which we learn how low our trusted pharmaceutical companies - and media outlets who broadcast this crap - have been stooping, and continue to stoop, to keep the stupifiable among us stupified. Mercury is a potent poison. There is nothing beneficial to biological life as we know it, in the use of this substance, whether in vaccines, cosmetics or cake mixes. (And the same goes for aluminum!) Thank you.

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Finn, when you have some time, watch the following documentary:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6351515212287981735
Dr. Andrew Moulden proved that vaccines cause mini-strokes. He's got the technology to prove it and he's a brain doc.

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I would love for the pro vaccination people to get all the information on what is in vaccinations and then tell me that you want to put that in your child...Formaldahyde (spelling), rat poison, included. Disturbing and disgusting...and of course they say there is no connection, money talks and the pharmaceutical companies have the best lawyers and people are bribed...and what about the gluten free, sugar free, casein free, dairy free diet, hormone free meat only, when you take all the crap out of their diets they tend to get better. Lower toxicity rates in natural, food found in nature takes away some of the burden that Dr's pump in their tiny bodies.

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