In Jan 2015, Elizabeth Cohen at CNN covered Wolfson in, Arizona measles exposure worries mom of at-risk kids.   The video interview showed that she has no understanding of the risks associated with vaccination.

Elizabeth Cohen to Dr. Wolfson: "Could you live with yourself if your child got another child sick, I mean really sick.  Had complications, even death?  Could you live with yourself if that happened?" 

(Of course what Cohen doesn't understand is the fact that there are lots of parents who have to live with the fact that they took their child in for multi-doses of routine vaccinations and they were never the same again.  That possibility doesn't exist for Cohen.

To her, parents who don't vaccinate are wrong, selfish and putting everyone else's child in danger.)

(It should be remembered that an exasperated Cohen, in Sept 2014, put her foot down during a blunt and condescending commentary at CNN where she emphatically told parents, "Vaccines do not cause autism!")

The good news is, the First Amendment doe still allow someone to express an opinion that differs from that of the medical-pharmaceutical complex, and the charges against Dr. Wolfson were dismissed.

July 24, 2015

Phoenix New Times: Anti-Vaccine Doctor to Keep his License, Medical Board Rules

An Arizona doctor who stirred up national controversy in January for publicly denouncing vaccines will not lose his license to practice medicine, the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners ruled. 

The board dismissed the case Saturday against Dr. Jack Wolfson, whom New Times profiled in March, citing his First Amendment right to "express his opinion," according to board meeting minutes. The vote was 4-1.

Thirty-eight people filed formal complaints, and many more called the board to informally voice concern about Wolfson's anti-vaccine evangelism. However, the board noted, no one has filed any complaints about the Scottsdale cardiologist's "actual medical care."

. . .The doctor quickly shot to infamy after he did an intervifew with 12 News during a measles outbreak proclaiming: "We should be getting measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox. These are the rights of our children to get it." He later was featured by USA Today, The Washington Post, and CNN, among others, proclaiming that a woman who injects chemicals into her child without questioning the consequences is a "bad mother."

The vast majority of the medical community, including the Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics, maintains that vaccines are safe and effective. But Wolfson argues that they are associated with negative reactions, including fever, rash, seizure, and autism.

. . .But he has no regrets.

"I believe I'm doing the right thing," he says. "If people were not critical of the tobacco industry, there would be no tobacco laws. If people weren't critical of the dangers of lead, we'd still have lead paint on our walls." 

 
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