A Brief History of Vaccination

A Brief History of Vaccination

Smallpox was, by many accounts, the deadliest human disease of all time killing upwards of 500 million people worldwide. In its deadliest epidemics, it would kill 30-percent of those infected and leave a third of the survivors blind. It’s no wonder that people threatened by the “speckled monster” would risk much to protect themselves against it. As early as 430 […]

Vaccine Fallacy Discussion

Vaccine Fallacy Discussion

The topic of vaccines really gets people revved up. And, as a result, logic is usually thrown out the window. Just by claiming that people have made logical fallacies in an argument about vaccines as I did recently on a fallacious article is enough to spur a new onslaught of fallacies amid the basic name-calling: “Brian” did have some somewhat […]

Myths of the Tetanus Vaccine

Myths of the Tetanus Vaccine

Dr. Suzanne Humphries, author of Dissolving Illusions, speaks on tetanus, about the disease, how to treat the disease and how to protect from tetanus, debunking the vaccination myths. On her site dissolvingillusions.com, she explains: It wasn’t long ago when infections plagued the Western world. Smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, typhoid, diphtheria, whooping cough, and other diseases were once considered a tragic […]

Vaxxed is Eye-Opening and Infuriating

Vaxxed is Eye-Opening and Infuriating

I knew there was substantial harm done by vaccines throughout the general population but I was skeptical about the autism connection. That is until I watched Vaxxed, the documentary by scandalized Andrew Wakefield. It is a fair and very convincing presentation on the correlation between the MMR vaccine specifically and the astounding rise in autism. Most importantly, however, it depicts […]

Vaccination May Increase Whooping Cough Incidence

Vaccination May Increase Whooping Cough Incidence

I recently saw a heartbreaking post from a mother with a 6-week-old who had contracted Whooping Cough (Pertussis). Accompanying pictures of her child in the hospital with tubes hanging off her body was a stern warning: So I wasn’t going to do this, but I think people need to see what not vaccinating their kids do to the OTHER kids, […]

4 Questions About Vaccines that May Change Your Mind

4 Questions About Vaccines that May Change Your Mind

In a fascinating and thorough examination of the vaccine debate, Elliott Freed poses four interesting questions: Question #1: Did vaccines save us from the deadly pandemics of the past? We’ve explored this question before and seen that sanitation had a much more dramatic effect on target diseases than the vaccines did. Mr. Freed agrees: The only vaccine available in the […]