immunization

The Real Cost of Not Immunizing

Can you imagine a child getting sick or harmed from your refusal to protect them?  How about the observation that routine childhood immunizations may reduce the risk of leukemia? [1]

Delaying Shots = No Benefit; But Risky

Delaying childhood vaccinations, or not getting immunized at all, does not provide any neuropsychological benefits for children at 7 to 10 years of age and might even result in poorer outcomes on some measures.

MMR Does Not Cause Autism

The Lancet, the medical journal that originally published the now discredited research that purported to link autism with the MMR immunization has now issued a full retraction of the paper.

A Shot of Nonsense: Pitiful Objections to Just What the Doctor Ordered

Dr. Amy Tuteur's blog, Logical fallacies speaks to the shibboleths of "vaccine rejectionism." With her permission, I'm reposting her distillate List of Fallacious Arguments.  "It is important to understand that they are, by definition, false. It is also important to be able to identify them. When they are present, they usually indicate that the person asserting the fallacies is wrong."

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