150 word resubmitted version of letter to the New York Times

[Guest guest]

To the editor:

Dr. writes that failure to vaccinate significant numbers of

children is “America’s dirty little secret”. In fact, America’s dirty

little secret is its failure to acknowledge and appropriately study the

many vaccine-associated adverse reactions reported to VAERS. If Dr.

really cared about protecting the children, he would direct his

ire at those who push the vaccination of healthy children with vaccines

of unknown safety, rather than the loving parents who question their

use.

Credible estimates of passive adverse reaction reporting, including one

from Kessler, range from 1-2%.¹ Others have noted that at best

10% are reported.

Even taking the more conservative 10% rate, that means at least 880

infants may have died from a vaccine-associated reaction in 1998 alone,

including 340 BY THE DAY FOLLOWING VACCINATION².

Coincidence? Only properly designed research, starting with

longitudinal, prospective studies using “never vaccinated” children as

controls, will ever determine the truth.

¹

http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Adverse_Reactions/vaers/credible_estimate

s.htm

²

http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Adverse_Reactions/vaers/infant_deaths.htm

Sandy Mintz, M.A.

Publisher, writer and independent researcher,

http://www.vaccinationnews.com

Anchorage, Alaska