Re: Offit: Dealing With Parents Who Want to Delay, Withhold, or Space Out Vaccinations

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A little hot-headed exchange between Offitt and me:

*Dealing With Parents Who Want to Delay, Withhold, or Space Out

Vaccinations*

Discuss A. Offit, MD's latest video blog, Dealing With Parents Who

Want to Delay, Withhold, or Space Out Vaccinations

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MD, Psychiatry/Mental Health, 2:23PM Jul 08, 2010 *

Offit is considered by thousands of parents and physicians who deal

with autistic children the Public Enemy #1 of autism (I own and monitor

e-groups with over 4000 parents and health care providers of children

with autism, and when his name comes up, there are dozens of statements

of distrust and ridicule about him). He is seen to be primarily a

mouthpiece for vaccine producers. He will mention the 2 or 3 kids that

die from measles or some other unlikely (but of course always possible)

disease like HIB, but never mentions the many many thousands of children

who in the same period get severe life-long autism from vaccine injury.

Nor does he mention that he has made millions from vaccines as he makes

the ridiculous statement that receiving many, many vaccines at once

wouldn't hurt anyone. I wish he would have the generosity and courage to

contribute some of his profits to a study that once and for all would

study the comparison of diseases in a population of vaccinated vs

unvaccinated children. I happen to be an autism specialist who over the

last 11 years have seen many children descend into autism after 1st

receiving thimerosal in their newborn vaccines, and then with the

resultant immune impairment, receive 3 live viruses in the MMR (often

accompanied by a recommendation to give their kids Tylenol) and lose all

speech, regress into their own world, with accompanying serious gut

pathologies that are very painful and difficult to treat. To compare

parents who want to space out vaccines, not give Tylenol, or forego some

live virus vaccines to parents who don't want to use seat belts is trite

and insulting to parents as usual.

Jaquelyn McCandless MD, author, " Children with Starving Brains, a

Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder. "

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* Offit is considered by thousands of parents and physicians who

deal with autistic children the Public Enemy #1 of...*

Dr. McCandless,

Because we have never met, I assume that you don't know me or what

motivates me. But I'm more than happy to tell you. I worked on a

rotavirus vaccine for 25 years because the virus causes a great deal of

suffering in the United States and death in the world. Since the vaccine

was licensed in 2006, the incidence of hospitalization has dramatically

declined. Also, now that the vaccine has been used in Mali, Vietnam,

Bangladesh, Ghana, and Nicaragua, lives have been saved. This is the

reward. I can assure you that neither the motivation for working on a

rotavirus vaccine nor the reward from watching the vaccine get licensed

were financial. Also, your logic escapes me. You would have it that I

worked on a rotavirus vaccine that saves lives so that I could make

money so that I could lie about vaccine safety so that I could hurt

children. Wouldn't it be infinitely more logical to assume that I worked

on a rotavirus vaccine that helps children for the same reason that I

stand up for the science of vaccine safety given that children are being

hurt by the misconception that vaccines cause autism.

Dealing With Parents Who Want to Delay, Withhold, or Space Out

Vaccinations

A. Offit, MD

Authors and Disclosures

Posted: 07/07/2010

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/724562

Authors and Disclosures

A. Offit, MD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania

School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chief, Division of

Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Disclosure: A. Offit, MD, has disclosed the following relevant

financial relationships:

Co-inventor: RotaTeq^® vaccine