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

[Guest guest]

When Offitt and his ilke obtain control of all health care,

that's when we're in real trouble. Now, at least, we have

alternative sources like Dr. McCandless. When the Government

takes control, CDC guidelines will become mandatory for all.

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From: Liz <elizabethsoliday@...>

Sent: Sat, July 10, 2010 2:05:54 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Offit: Dealing With Parents Who Want to Delay,

Withhold, or Space Out Vaccinations

" Dealing with " ? That says it all.

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> A little hot-headed exchange between Offitt and me:

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

> Vaccinations*

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

> Want to Delay, Withhold, or Space Out Vaccinations

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

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<http://boards.medscape.com/forums?224@@1de83061@.../0%21returnTo=.2a005d84/0>,

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

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> 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.

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

> Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder. "

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> MD, Pediatrics, General, 10:50AM Jul 09, 2010 Replying to: *

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> * Offit is considered by thousands of parents and physicians who

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> Dr. McCandless,

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> 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.

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

> Vaccinations

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> A. Offit, MD

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> Authors and Disclosures

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> Posted: 07/07/2010

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

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> Authors and Disclosures

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> A. Offit, MD

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> 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

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

> financial relationships:

> Co-inventor: RotaTeq^® vaccine

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