These letters are excellent, but they should be in The Philadephia Inquirer. I think AoA should forward them to the Editor in Chief and ask why they are so afraid of debate, other points of view and, in my opinion, the truth. It is fact that Offit profits from vaccines and fact the Hep B shot is administered at birth which is probably dangerous and certainly raising questions about the vaccine schedule, and fact that manufactures and doctors are offered unprecendented protection from liability. Newspapers are supposed to be interested in facts--so challenge The Inquirer to publish them.

Apropos of Offit's pathologically oppressive God complex:

Bioethicist John Banja, PhD describes medical narcissism thus:
- "[H]is or her adaptation to the environment has resulted in a set of coping behaviors that seems to exclude patients and their families."

Psychiatry professor Robert B. Millman coined the phrase "Acquired Situational Narcissism," saying that a person's distorted view of their place in the world is fed by people who surround him and build his sense of celebrity. "What happens is that he gets so used to everyone looking at him that he stops looking back at them.... They begin to think they're invulnerable...."

That explains a lot, except how to rein in the Charlie Sheen of vaccines.

I personally would like to see him and every doctor who tries to profit off of the misery of our families, charged with crimes against humanity. This also applies to those physicians who conveniently refuse to accept insurance because they prey on the desperation of parents in our situation. The medical profession, once noble, has become a sad disgrace. My eyes are open now.

And he doesn't consider it child abuse when newborn babies are given the Hep B vaccine at birth? They are hardly out of the womb when they are shot up with this garbage.

I have had the pleasure of meeting Herr Doktor, shook his hand, stared into his beady eyes. When he is not cussing out AoA types and/or having them physically ejected, he is a pleasnt, affable man.
He stated that there is no such thing as vaccine injury, beyond redness at injection sight. A Vaccine iInjury Denialist, you might call him.
Herr Doktor has Gawd Complex on steroids.
I would not trust any child under this man's care, ever. I doubt he could pass a Fitness to Practice review.
As a result of this man's obtuse stubborness, in the face of all contra evidence, he continues to flack and whore for Merck.
The question for Herr Doktor is: " how much of the money funding your Hilleman Chair is blood money from murdered Avandia victims? Why should anyone listen to a man, like you, so thoroughly morally compromised? Is there anyone from whom you would not accept money?"
OK, three questions.

I sent the following email to Dr. Offit:
"Dear Dr. Offit,
I read your article that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer (Philly.com.) You equate the withholding of medical services and vaccines by parents to several forms of corporal punishment and sexual abuse of children. I have a couple of questions that were not answered by your article:

1. In the 1991 measles outbreak you mentioned, were the 938 non-church members who were affected (3 of whom died) vaccinated for the measles?
2. Following your analogy of abuse, when a child is injured or dies from a vaccine, who would be prosecuted as the abuser: the manufacturer of the vaccine or the doctor who administers it?
3. Do you have any financial interests in the vaccine and/or pharmaceutical industry?

Thank you in advance for clarifying these points to me!"

If I receive a reply, I will let you know. Not holding my breath.

Shelly - I dream of a day when we open proceedings of another type of vaccine court . Where any immunities and any amnesties previously granted have been simply torn up and disregarded, and we are free to prosecute the purveyors orf vaccine poison for the crimes against humanity that they have committed .

There will be as much mercy shown there , in that fantasy court of mine , as all those involved in this vaccine carnage(Hg-enocid-AL) have shown for our children .

This linking of concern with vaccine safety to Sandusky's pedophilia is completely desperate on his part and insulting in the extreme. That's right, Dr. Offit, many of us whom you wish to paint as 'anti-vaccine' have actually vaccinated and are simply more safety- cautious. As someone whose grandmother nearly died from a vaccine side effect (Guillaume Barre), I am not impressed. Especially as you point out, Anne, the Peciatricians or pharmaceutical companies have no liability for vaccine injuries.

Thanks for posting this, Anne. What is UNCONSCIONABLE is the fact that millionaire vaccine industrialists such as Offit are not forced in a kind of Clockwork Orangey kind of way to look at published scientific articles like the Polish study referenced here at AOA just below:
http://www.rescuepost.com/files/prog-health-sci-2012-vol-2-no1-neurologic-adverse-events-vaccination.pdf
or another Polish gem revealing the effect of squalene on rats, so that those in public health or those who are vaccine industrialists would outright refuse to allow any such heinous adjuvant to even be considered for use in vaccines in our country:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10048717

That failure to read articles that chronicle the sickening and intolerable results of a mandatory vaccination program, and observe what is obvious everywhere (autism in children of all ages, and now young adults, and an unacceptably high infant mortality rate due to the excessive, overly aggressive vaccination schedule in the USA) is what is truly unconscionable.