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A Tulsa World story a few months back noted that I’m a vaccine skeptic. Someone, I’ll add, delighted by the dethroning of pardoned-just-in-case Anthony Fauci and the ascendancy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
What do I think of the measles outbreak in Texas, and Kennedy’s sudden enthusiasm for the MMR vaccine? This: Where there is risk, there must be choice. Parents, not public health officials, must make the choice to vaccinate their children or not. Hopefully Kennedy & Co.
will shed light on the topic, eventually demonstrating persuasively how risky vaccines are (or aren’t) through a fair, transparent process, as Kennedy promised. Not that I doubt that vaccines are at least partially responsible for the skyrocketing rate of autism. (If one in 31 is not a pandemic, what is?) People are also reading.
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Sen. Tom Coburn, who was also a physician, was asked about the vaccine-autism controversy. His instant response is burned into my memory: “I had three or four young patients go autistic immediately after I gave them the MMR vaccine.
And I knew that was the reason. So, I stopped giving that vaccine.” When a doctor changes his professional practice of medicine, based on his medical training and repeated observation, that’s compelling to me.
Credible. As are the many devastated parents who insist that vaccines damaged their children as the media play deaf. The outbreak in Texas simply argues for more discussion and investigation of vaccine safety.
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