The New Religion
from the article:
Certainly, that is the tactic of choice at the prestigious, exclusive Hayground School in Bridgehampton, where an astonishing one-third of typically secular, sophisticated, ultra-liberal parents have, it seems, a “genuine” religious objection to vaccination of their children.
To parents who send their kids to local public schools that doesn’t cut it. A long-established local pediatrician, Gail Schonfeld, now refuses to accept patients the children of parents who won’t permit immunization. She believes in vaccines—in fact, considers them just plain good medical practice—and says if “parents don’t trust me with this, we won’t have a good working relationship.”
Certainly, that is the tactic of choice at the prestigious, exclusive Hayground School in Bridgehampton, where an astonishing one-third of typically secular, sophisticated, ultra-liberal parents have, it seems, a “genuine” religious objection to vaccination of their children.
To parents who send their kids to local public schools that doesn’t cut it. A long-established local pediatrician, Gail Schonfeld, now refuses to accept patients the children of parents who won’t permit immunization. She believes in vaccines—in fact, considers them just plain good medical practice—and says if “parents don’t trust me with this, we won’t have a good working relationship.”
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when i grew up i experienced all of these illnesses as did almost every one i knew. yes we lived through them but if there was a vaccine I am quite sure my parents would have given it to me and my siblings and i believe all of the other parents would have done the same. i had several friends and cousins that had polio, and unfortunately the vaccine was not available then. I didn't get it until i was in the Army.
Maybe some of the parents will think differently as the are attending to their child who is miserable while having the disease.
so far the history of the vaccine is pretty outstanding with its success.
one more reason to avoid religion.
Now, I currently think that you need to educate yourself and not just give into the hype. Get a Dr. that you trust and even then, question him/her, just like you would your financial advisor.
As you say, natural vaccination is better, in the long run and from a species survival perspective. Similarly, these anti-microbial hand soaps for children should not be used. Kids need to be exposed to germs to build up their tolerance. For adults, fine, our immune systems are pretty much set, but for children, banish the anti-microbe soap for the good of the children.
I assume you mean that you observe the number of patients at your office has not dropped from what you expect.
You don't know if it has "hurt" you until a patient tells you they didn't come to see you because of it. You can't tell the 'real' reviews from the shills, can you?
A person must live with the consequences of their actions. No blaming others allowed unless it truly is another’s fault such as a doctor prescribing the wrong medicine.
On the one hand, some members of this community, in memory of the poliomyelitis scourge and how Jonas Salk's vaccine seems to have put it under strict control, now believe all vaccines strike the same balance of safety v. efficacy as does the Salk vaccine.
On the other hand, Rand never once defined "protecting people from infectious agents" as a proper direct function of government. It might be a matter for a court to decide, and for a legislature to decide whether an individual tort or even criminal harm results when one person transmits a communicable disease to another. But Rand never once supported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in any quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial character. Nor the Office of the Surgeon General.
1) 100 some odd cases nationwide is not an outbreak or an epidemic. We had more than 100 measles cases in one week in one grade school when I was a kid.
2) No one seems to be differentiating between deadly and crippling diseases like smallpox and polio and those like measles that statistically may only be a bit more dangerous than the vaccines. (And that, only because there is insufficient data over other long term negative effects of the vaccines.
I would rather have my next generation of descendants immunized by measles and chicken pox directly than by a vaccine.
Polio and smallpox though would be a definite yes.
Flu vaccine is an urban legend IMO.
Last flu I had was in 1964, the first time I needed every day’s pay just to survive. Went to work with it, suffered through the day with it and then it was gone.
Just my experience; has nothing to do with Gail
http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr...
(Granted it's a very small sample;^)
You haven't a clue of how to be a good doctor.
You are a perfect example of why medical care costs a fortune, and quality of care is declining.
I would not put it past those in government, particularly nOw, to use mandatory inoculation recklessly to line the pockets of big-pharma to the detriment of the host.
There simply is no trust. It is up to the individual or the parent to choose what is needed to remain healthy. No tears given, sympathy warranted, or liability granted should a parent choose not to inoculate and illness, or worse, befall their child.
"Iowa asks parents if “immunization conflicts with a genuine and sincere religious belief and that the belief is in fact religious, and not based merely on philosophical, scientific, moral, personal, or medical opposition to immunizations.”
well that was a little chilling. religious beliefs count but "scientific objection" does not?
The work of one the founders of anti-vaccination - Dr Andrew Wakefield, has been shown to be fraudulent.
Words used include- “dishonest,” “unethical,” and “callous.”
It is appalling that this person has been favorably mentioned on this site.
As to the validity of religious objections, see the article- “You can raise your child however you want until you are endangering your child and those around you. That right, you simply do not have.”
No surprise that the objectors are often part of the green movement
- the natural living, non-GMO eating, and the “nothing artificial” green movement -
to which I include 'anthropomorphic climate change'- a religion more dangerous than Islamism which it supports.
Where I may disagree with the article is in the suggestion that religious belief is being faked. No, this nonsense is religion.