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Vaccine Injury Stories: the Sacred Cows of the Internet?

Vaccine Injury Stories: the Sacred Cows of the Internet?

Real vaccine injuries are recorded. You or your doctor can report the injury and if it’s serious, so begins a public health investigation. They are not overlooked.  They are not covered up.  If anything, they are sought after. Vaccine safety is taken extremely seriously by vaccine manufacturers and the medical establishment which includes doctors, nurses, the government, and public health professionals. Even researchers look for vaccine injury reports: sometimes they are written up in the medical literature as  a case study.
I’m a Crunchy, Libertarian Pro-vaxxer

I’m a Crunchy, Libertarian Pro-vaxxer

I might be the last person you'd expect to be pro-vaccine. I might also be the first person you'd expect to be called a “hippie.” I like midwives, extended breastfeeding,…

Leaving the Anti-Vaccine Movement

Leaving the Anti-Vaccine Movement

I can’t tell you how I became pro-vaccine without first telling you how I became anti-vaccine. When my oldest daughter was about four months old, I discovered “crunchy” parenting. I…

Anna’s Voice

Anna’s Voice

I'm a twenty-one-year-old living with autism.  I was born this way. My autism was not a result of vaccines. I am who I am, and I'm okay with that. Please don't…

The Consequences of Refusing Vaccines

The Consequences of Refusing Vaccines

I think about children and vaccines more than the average person.  I'm an emergency medicine physician, and a parent's decision to vaccinate his or her child affects my job every…

Protecting Jude

Protecting Jude

Jude looked up at me with an expression of incredulous shock. She was being hurt and I was standing there doing nothing about it! At two months old, she couldn’t…

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