My Son is Fine, Therefore Vaccines are Always Safe

By Katie Wright

My Son is Fine, Therefore Vaccines are Always Safe: CDC Vaccine Science

I just finished reading the CDC transcript regarding “why science is not always enough.” This seminar was contrived in order to convince parents to give a newborn babies 5 vaccines, containing ammonia, aluminum and anti-freeze, at once. The CDC does not understand why American parents do not think this is a great idea.  I encourage all to visit the CDC website [HERE] and listen to this bizarre and convoluted groupthink seminar. No opposing points of views were allowed and no parents of vaccine injured children are included.  Vaccines are presented as completely risk free, in any quantity, with any number of toxic ingredients, at any age.

Where to begin?

The lecture was so rambling and repetitive but it basically comes down to the fact that the CDC believes that parents are falling victim to the Internet and, God forbid, educating them about vaccine safety! Another calamity, as they see it, is that we are uneducated, which in and of itself contradicts their primary concern, that we are reading too many books and articles. All these parents researching vaccine safety issues on their computers and in their libraries are creating so many problems for pediatricians that the CDC needed to convene a conference to stop the “parent to parent exchange of misinformation.”

In an attempt to appear somewhat relevant to the pediatricians who deal with Moms everyday, the CDC enlisted a new Mom and doctor, Dr. Kristine Sheedy, to speak for the organization. Dr. Sheedy speaks about how precious her baby is, how much she loves him, how much she sacrificed during the course of her pregnancy in order to be safe. Been there, done that.  Then Dr. Sheedy takes her newborn in for 5 vaccines. Yes, he cries a bit but is fine. Therefore she concurs that, yes, it was psychologically scary to have her baby hyper-vaccinated but that the vaccines safe totally safe for all babies. Case closed.  Interesting scientific method.

During a rare moment of quiet, when her two boys are napping, Dr. Sheedy had turned on “Oprah” just in time to view the Jenny McCarthy episode. Well, then all hell broke loose. When Sheedy heard that Jenny went on the Internet to find help and information, “she knew exactly where this was going! And I was right.” Where is that? To knowledge??? Maybe Jenny had to go on the Internet because her pediatrician knew nothing about autism and basically told her to just give up and accept it? The fact that Jenny wanted to help her son and not give up on Evan is apparently a big problem for Dr. Sheedy.  The doctor sounds less like a physician than a paranoid private investigator. “ I know what you are thinking, forget about Jenny McCarthy, there are so many holes, so many contradictions in her story.” Whoooa. “Holes in her story” is Jenny McCarthy under some kind of federal indictment? Is Jenny trying to escape prosecution? “Holes in her story,” what a bizarre way to characterize a courageous Mom’s description of her son’s horrific descent into autism. I guess Jenny should have made the narrative less messy and scary for the CDC.

Not only is the doctor furious at Jenny she is angry with “Oprah” for not, you parents of autistic kids will love this, “not having an autism expert on.” OK, Ok, I know, very funny right? From all the physician friends I know, the medical school education on autism comprises like 2 hours, even for pediatricians. In that 2 hours they are told autism is totally genetic. Apparently, Dr. Sheedy wanted a CDC pediatrician or a vaccine patent holder from the NIH on the program. Sounds interesting and helpful! No one at the AAP or the CDC seemed too interested in autism until Jenny McCarthy started talking about it. These agencies had decades to lobby Oprah but never seemed particularly interested in autism, and now they want to ride Jenny’s coat tails and piggyback on her show? That is really sad.

After the doctor we hear from a nurse, Patricia Strincfield, who waxes on and on about all the horrible deaths from disease she sees, apparently all day and everyday. It sounds as if she alone is trying to save these children from their horribly selfish and misinformed parents. No wonder she sounds so bitter, what an awful job! Then Stinchfield repeatedly cites the Danish study as a paragon of scientific validity, proving once and for that vaccines have zero to do with autism. She never mentions that the Serum Institute, a vaccine company, paid for the study or that Gerberding herself recently acknowledged that this study was rife with errors and was not very useful. Gerberding also stated that the CDC would not utilize a study with such a poor research design again. Strinchfield also denies that the CDC has withheld the VSD data and has never sought to deny public access to these records. I swear, I thought I was listening to a parallel universe!

Finally pediatricians are counseled to basically humor parents. Listen to their concerns, pretend to respect their beliefs and then try to convince them they are wrong. But in a nice way!! Throwing in a big dose of guilt is also advised. Remind parents how they are putting all children at risk for horrific diseases. No one wants to see the return of these awful disease but it is so disturbing that the CDC is so obsessed about the one in a million chance of contracting polio but not at all concerned with the 1 in 150 chance of developing autism.

The thing is we can have it both ways, but not in the matter the CDC is proposing. We will not convince parents that our insane vaccine schedule is safe by demonizing the internet. That is just crazy.  Parents are turning to the online community for the help and knowledge their pediatricians do not have. The CDC will not convince parents vaccines are safe by bullying them about herd immunity either. The only way for the immunization program to succeed is to support outside, objective research and until then not aggravate an already disastrous situation by adding more unsafe vaccines, like Pentacel, to the schedule. Finally the CDC should apologize to Jenny McCarthy and thank her for bringing attention to autism. While the CDC is holding web seminars on dated scientific information, ignoring the needs of millions of sick and suffering autistic kids, hiding the VSD, Jenny has been touring the country meeting with thousands of families offering them hope and inspiration through empowerment and knowledge. Dr. Sheedy and Patricia Stinchfield would be wise to stop lecturing and start listening.

Katie Wright has two young boys. Her oldest son, Christian, is severely affected by autism. He developed normally; smiling, talking, walking; only to lose every skill and every word by the age of 2 and a half.  Upon the advice of medical professionals Katie and her husband were advised to pursue only high quality behavioral therapy, speech and OT for Christian. It had no meaningful impact on Christian until his parents sought help from DAN! doctors who treated the underlying causes of Christian's descent into autism. Christian has improved but still has far to go. He has Inflammatory Bowel Disease, the measles virus in his gut and an immune system akin to a late stage AIDS patient. Christian does not have a psychiatric disorder. Before autism, Katie Wright was the Clinical Director of Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Stamford Connecticut. Katie is proud to serve on the boards of NAA and SafeMinds.

Comments

[michele i]

Thanks for the amazing piece Katie!!!
:o)
-michele

[MinorityView]

http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/?p=156

for an article looking hard at some of the bogus disease statistics being thrown around by these folks.

[SaraD]

These are my most favorite statements by Dr. Sheedy"

"And that while the biggest and best population-based studies have found no association between vaccines and autism, they don’t rule out the possibility that maybe vaccines somehow contributed to some of these kids conditions. We just don’t know for sure."

"So I do say a little prayer before Conner gets his vaccines that he will be like the vast majority of babies who get vaccinated, enjoy the protection that it affords him and have no problems following vaccines."

"I mean, let’s face it five vaccines is a lot."

"I also know that truth changes as science advances"

[alison macneil]

Katie Wright - you write for me! I'm 3/4 of the way through Evidence of Harm and I am so angry I am numb! Keep going.... you are helping every kid on the spectrum, their families and babies waiting to be vaccinated everywhere. I send you energy!Alison macNeil

[Carolyn]

Thank you Katie, for writing this piece.

What can I say? It's the same ol' schpeel, just a different person. I am getting amused by the increase in scare tactics that they are using. Are they serious?

Do they actually think that there is ANYTHING scarier than autism? We already have a health crisis on our hands.

Just that alone should tell all of us that they have no idea how autism has BLOWN a whole through our lives.

Yes...the interent is making us knowledgable but we would not be seeking this knowledge if we didn't have an autistic child. If we were not told that there was NOTHING we could do by the pediatricians.

Stop poisoning our children.

Stop making them chronically ill.

Stop making families break apart and become financially ruined.

Stop lying to us.

Maybe then ....just maybe....we will stop talking about this very serious health crisis. But until then. The fight will continue. Our children are worth it.

[nhokkanen]

These public health policymakers certainly reveal a lot about their psychopathologies... I'd like to see a study on the prevalence of narcissistic personality and other psychiatric disorders among them. Who on earth would trust people who display such arrogance and lack of respect for human life? For some sick reason they need to demonize others who question them. That allows them to rationalize hurting our children and ignoring or denying what they've done. That type of rationale has prevented rape victims from receiving justice for hundreds of years.

[Randy]

"Dr. Sheedy said: I also know that truth changes as science advances."

I didn't read the transcripts or listen to the podcasts - is that actually what she said?

I thought that science was a method for revealing the truth, not determining it...

[Elizabeth Soliday]

I am so tired of hearing that parents are misinformed by the internet. I make sure now that whenever I write or say something, people know I have access to peer-reviewed journal articles, medical studies, etc. See my "Letter to the Editor" of the North Kitsap Herald. My husband tried to say that the experts would say I was just reading internet conspiracy theories, nope, got that covered honey, I had enough of that excuse.

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/nkh/opinion/letters/25929124.html

[Heidi]

Thank you Katie for suffering thru that annoying CDC presentation and for your great analysis! I pray that someday this fight will feel less like a made for TV movie.

[Terri Lewis]

Julie O., I want to second your comments, as I'm sure many of us could. I, too, have never met anyone, anytime, anywhere whose child got a terrible, vaccine-preventable disease.

Again, as you say, *maybe* this is because most kids are still "fully vaccinated"--maybe not. (I say not, but we needn't go into that right here and now.)

Yet all these doctors and nurses claim to be treating these kids *all the time.*

More lies.

They're simply exaggerating--wildly, and out of fear of what they *think* will happen if vaccination rates go down.

If they really wanted to make sure that parents continued to vaccinate against the most dangerous diseases, they would:

1. Offer vaccines one at a time, and start at a later age (age 2 is recommended in Dr. Donald Miller's schedule).
2. Take the mercury out of all the shots, not just some!
3. Eliminate the most ineffective shots completely (flu shot comes to mind first, and of course Hep B at birth).
4. Etc., etc.

But the real goal of corrupt government agencies such as the CDC, the FDA, and most of the others is to keep the program in place and to simply lie about the casualties.

Is there anyone new here tonight?

Take a look at what happened in Simpsonwood, Georgia, in June of 2000 when the CDC held a private meeting to review information that *did* show a link between thimerosal and autism. A strong link.

Eight years ago!

What happened was, they turned their backs on the kids who were being hurt by vaccination in favor of those who were only *theoretically* being protected!

(Remember, lots of kids who get vaccine-preventable diseases have been vaccinated--it just doesn't always work.)

They closed their eyes and continued to drive the bus--straight off a cliff.

And they're getting away with it, although the resistance is growing.

I'd like to hear from someone who's new here today, or tomorrow; someone who's been lurking, maybe, and hasn't yet spoken. Because our numbers are growing, and as tragic as that is, we can only successfully resist this madness when we join together and speak out and fight it as one.

Others need to see that they are not alone when this happens to them, because tonight there is someone--there are many someones--just finding out.

I hope they make it to this site and to Generation Rescue before some mainstream quack tells them "there's nothing much you can do. . .ABA. . .genetics. . .acceptance. . ."

That is my prayer and hope for tonight.

That, and that whoever is new here will speak out NOW and join us.

Terri Lewis