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In this video Dr. E'ale tries to claim that vaccines are not necessary because as a concerned father he doesn't want his child to have chemicals pumped into them, rather he states that the child's immune system becomes strong enough to fight these diseases because vaccines prevent the body from having to build immunity. The red flags i this video are: appeal to authority, and ideological support.

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Go Vaccine Free Without Fear Of Death From Infectious Disease

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Dr. Henele E'ale, ND says that when a child has a healthy immune system, we don't need to worry about our children dying from infectious disease. Many parents who want to go vaccine free and avoid vaccination altogether sometimes worry that if they don't vaccinate their child that their child may die from an infection.

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This video is about a mom who found out that anti-vaccination is dangerous after her child became ill. The red flag in this video is red herring and ideological support.

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An anti-vaxxer mom has had a change of heart. Cenk Uygur, Grace Baldridge and Alonso Duralde, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://www.tytnetwork.com/join "Kristen O'Meara, a teacher who lives just outside of Chicago, decided not to vaccinate her three daughters when they were born, citing belief in scientifically unsound anti-vaccination "research."

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This video shows the origins of vaccination and when and how anti vaccination started becoming popular. the red flag in this video is appeal to authority.

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The origins of the anti-vaccine movement

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This article speaks about a case of the measles that started in California in Disneyland. This article claims that the neglect of people vaccinating their children with the MMR vaccine is Andrew Wakefield's study. The Redflags in this article are: Appeal to authority because Andrew Wakefield used to be a doctor, and ideological support because no one wants to be told what to do with their children.

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Measles is now spreading outward from Disneyland in California, in the worst outbreak in years. The epidemic is fueled by growing enclaves of unvaccinated people.

The CDC reports that in just the past month, 84 people from 14 states contracted measles, a number that is certainly an under-estimate, because the CDC doesn't record every case. California alone has 59 confirmed cases, most of them linked to an initial exposure in Disneyland. A majority of people who have gotten sick were not vaccinated.

For years, scientists (including me) have warned that the anti-vaccination movement was going to cause epidemics of disease. Two years ago I wrote that the anti-vaccine movement had caused the worst whooping cough epidemic in 70 years. And now it's happening with measles.

Finally, though, the public seems to be pushing back. Parents are starting to wake up to the danger that the anti-vax movement represents to their children and themselves.

What's sad about this - tragic, really - is that we eliminated measles from the U.S. in the year 2000, thanks to the measles vaccine. As this CDC graph shows, we've had fewer than 100 cases every year since.

But we had 644 cases in 27 states in 2014, the most in 20 years. And 2015 is already on track to be worse. Measles may become endemic in the U.S, circulating continually, thanks to the increasing numbers of unvaccinated people. Until now, each outbreak was caused by someone traveling from abroad and bringing measles to us. The anti-vaccine movement has turned this public health victory into defeat.

Anti-vaxxers have been relentless in the efforts to spread misinformation. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are beneficial, they endlessly repeat a variety false claims, such as:

Vaccines cause autism. They don't.

The preservative thimerosal in vaccines causes autism. It doesn't.

Natural immunity is all you need. It isn't. Measles infects 90% of people exposed to it unless they are vaccinated.

A healthy lifestyle will protect you from measles. It won't.

Now, finally, some parents are pushing back. Parents and schools in California, where the epidemic began, are concerned that their children will be exposed to measles from unvaccinated children in schools. And the schools are starting to do something they should have done long ago: send the unvaccinated kids home.

The problem arises from California's vaccine exemption policy: although public schools require kids to be vaccinated, parents can exempt their kids simply by saying they have a personal objection to vaccination. It's not just California: only two states, Mississippi and West Virginia, don't allow parents to claim a philosophical or religious exemption to vaccines And Colorado has the worst rate of vaccination, at just 82%, primarily due to parents claiming a "philosophical" exemption.

These parents are the anti-vaxxers. Thanks to them, we now have large pockets of unvaccinated children through whom epidemics can spread further an faster than we've seen in decades. The CDC reports that in 2014, 79% of measles cases in the U.S. involving unvaccinated people were the result of personal belief exemptions.

Anti-vaxxers don't recognize the threat their behavior poses to others, especially to children whose immune systems aren't functioning properly. CNN reported this week on the case of Rhett Krawitt, a 6-year-old California boy who has gone through 4 years of chemotherapy for childhood leukemia. His leukemia is in remission and he's back in school, but the treatment wiped out his immunity, and he's still not ready to get vaccinated. If Rhett gets measles, he might not survive. His father Carl wrote to school district officials to ask them to ban unvaccinated children from school.

Krawitt expects the schools to deny his request.

Meanwhile, the parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids aren't budging. The New York Times reported on one mother, Crystal McDonald, who refused to vaccinate any of her four children, after "researching the issue" by reading anti-vaccine websites. When their high school sent her daughter home for two weeks, the daughter asked if she could get the measles shot so she could return. As quoted in the Times, McDonald told her daughter "I said 'No, absolutely not.' I said I'd rather you miss an entire semester than you get the shot.'"

Where does this breathtaking science denialism come from? It's been building for years, as I and many others have written. The wave began with a 1998 paper published in The Lancet by Andrew Wakefield, claiming that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism. Wakefield's work was later shown to be fraudulent, and his claims about the vaccine " dishonest and irresponsible." After lengthy investigations, the paper was retracted and Wakefield lost his medical license. Despite this very public repudiation, Wakefield has stuck to his claims, though, and has spent much of the past 15 years speaking (or perhaps "preaching" would be a better term) to anti-vaccine groups, to whom he is a kind of folk hero.

It's not just Wakefield, though. Anti-vaccine messages have been broadcast aggressively by the group Generation Rescue, led by former Playboy playmate and MTV host Jenny McCarthy, and by Age of Autism, a group dedicated to the proposition that vaccines cause autism. (Age of Autism is doing it again right now.) And just last summer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published a new book further promoting the long-discredited claim that thimerosal causes autism.

Most of the anti-vax crowd have no scientific training or expertise, which might explain (but doesn't excuse) their complete ignorance of the science. Over the past 15 years, dozens of studies involving hundreds of thousands of people have shown convincingly that neither vaccines nor any of the ingredients in them are linked to autism. Vaccines are not only safe, but they are perhaps the greatest public health success in the history of civilization.

Measles, though, is dangerous. The CDC's Anne Schuchat had a message for parents this week:

"I want to make sure that parents who think that measles is gone and haven't made sure that they or their children are vaccinated are aware that measles is still around and it can be serious. And that MMR vaccine is safe and effective and highly recommended."

Make no mistake, measles is a very dangerous infection. In the current outbreak, 25% of victims have ended up in the hospital. And it is extremely infectious: the CDC's Schuchat explained that:

"You can catch it [measles] just by being in the same room as a person with measles even if that person left the room because the virus can hang around for a couple of hours."

Perhaps the Disneyland epidemic, which has now spread to 14 states, will finally convince parents, schools, and state legislatures that they need to insist that children get vaccinated before going to school. Perhaps it will also convince parents to stop listening to nonsense, and choose wisely by getting their children vaccinated against measles. We won this battle before, and we can win it again.

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Anti-Vaccine Movement Causes Worst Measles Epidemic In 20 Years

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The worst measles epidemic in 20 years is now spreading outward from Disneyland in California. The anti-vaccine movement has created the conditions for the epidemic by spreading fear and misinformation, ever since a flawed 1998 study that mistakenly claimed vaccines might cause autism. Parents are finally starting to fight back.

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This article shows the effects of people not vaccinating their children as an interactive map. the redflags in this article are : appeal to authority because people like Jenny McCarthy are using their star power to convince people not to vaccinate, and ideological support.

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Vaccinations are one of the of most incredible aspects of modern medicine. They can make previously lethal diseases disappear from society and save countless lives. There is, however, a chance that the vaccines work a little too well and our collective memory is too short to remember the devastating effects some of these diseases caused just a few short decades ago. Recently, for reasons that are not based on science or logic, many parents have outspokenly rejected vaccinating their children. Unfortunately, this has caused a reemergence of easily managed diseases. The Council on Foreign Relations has released an interactive map detailing the catastrophic outcome of these poor choices.

The interactive map gives a gut-wrenching tour of global outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough from 2008-2014. These diseases -- all of which are easily prevented by vaccines -- can have dire consequences. The CDC estimates that 164,000 people around the world will die from measles each year, and it is experiencing quite a resurgence in the UK. The United States has recently seen a drastic increase in whooping cough, which causes around 195,000 deaths per year. The majority of these deaths occur in impoverished regions with very little access to vaccines. In the case of developed areas like the US or UK, they shouldn't be happening at all.

Update (10/24/2014): CFR's map has now been updated to document attacks on health care workers, which have been increasing in recent years. These attacks are indicated on the map with red triangles. Additionally, these attacks correlate with increased instance of disease, including a polio outbreak in Afghanistan. Socio-economic trends can also be seen, as incedence of measles and whooping cough are increasing in wealthier areas like the US and UK, while poorer areas indicate lacking adequate supplies and give health officials a clear idea of where efforts need to be increased.

But how did it all begin?

In 1998, Andrew Wakefield released a paper claiming to have linked the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to the onset of autism. No other scientist was ever able to match Wakefield's findings, and in the coming years, it became known that Wakefield had a financial conflict of interest. In 2010, an ethics review board found that he had falsified the data in his report, causing an immediate retraction of his original paper and revocation of his medical license. Despite the fact most scientists opposed Wakefield's "findings" from the start, some were all too eager to jump on the anti-MMR bandwagon.

Among those leading the charge against vaccines is Jenny McCarthy, the Playboy Bunny-turned-pseudoscience advocate. McCarthy began speaking out against vaccines in 2007, as she believed they caused her son's autism. Based on her son's symptoms, some believe the boy actually has Landau-Kleffner syndrome. She has written a few books (including one with a foreword by Wakefield himself) continually claiming that vaccines cause autism and that she cured her son's disorder with alternative treatment, without a shred of credible medical evidence. In the face of a possible misdiagnosis and absolutely no scientific evidence to support the claim that vaccines cause autism, she remains unchanged in her opinion. Unfortunately, her celebrity status has given her a platform to use anecdotal (not scientific) evidence to urge parents against vaccines.

Of course, absolutely nothing is without risk and there can be side effects from vaccines, but those are incredibly rare. Some people are unable to be vaccinated due to allergies or other medical conditions. This makes it altogether more important for those who can get vaccinated to do so, creating a herd immunity for our most vulnerable members of society.

The full version of the map is available on CFR's website.

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One Map Sums Up The Damage Caused By The Anti-Vaccination Movement

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Vaccinations are one of the of most incredible aspects of modern medicine. They can make previously lethal diseases disappear from society and save countless lives. There is, however, a chance that the vaccines work a little too well and our collective memory is too short to remember the devastating effects some of these diseases caused just a few short decades ago.

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This article is about a case in New Zealand where a child's parents-the father being a scientist decided not to immunize their child. The redflag in this article is ideological support because these parents, despite their knowledge about vaccines decided against vaccinating because their child had the right to grow up free of chemicals. They let "the hippie" win.

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"We sat down and said f...ing hippies, because we were hippies about it. We used our intuition and feelings but there's no place for it. There's just statistics on disease and adverse reactions."

Stories that go viral about parenting always tweak interest because usually they share a new perspective or one that is against the grain. And then there are articles like the one circulating out of New Zealand and Australia, where there is a real lesson to be learned.

The story of young Alijah Williams popped up on my news-feed more times than I can count. His parents made the decision for him to not immunize him against lethal diseases and, at age seven, Alijah was hospitalized with tetanus, a disease that wreaked havoc on his young body, and against which he should have been immunized.

His parents are no dummies and not ignorant of what science says about the importance and safety of vaccines. In fact, his father Ian is a scientist.

"When it came to my kid's health, I let the hippie win. I should have let the science win," Williams' father Ian said.
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All of the Googling and general science knowledge in the world will not and cannot replace years of research and study on vaccines and both their efficacy and safety. And yet parents consistently choose not to vaccinate children based on their own 'research.'

"Parents like us make the decision to not vaccinate on very little factual information about the actual consequences of the diseases," Williams said.

The risk of getting the diseases these vaccines protect against, and having permanent and possible lethal consequences from them, far outweigh the risk of getting the vaccine in the first place. In fact, according to the article, not one person in New Zealand has died as a result of getting the tetanus shot. In fact, according to the article, "about one in 1 million will suffer a bad reaction to the tetanus vaccine, such as painful nerve inflammation while Alijah had a one in 10 chance of dying from tetanus."

It is the height of hubris to look at science, look at statistics and look at Health Canada recommendations and, unless you have a background in science and have heavily studied vaccines in the course of your education, assume you know better. It is also a dangerous decision to make on behalf of someone who has no say, but can suffer the consequences.

It's hard to imagine as a parent saying this: "I was holding the hand of my kid who had an arched back, the muscles could break his bones at any second, and his heart could stop," and knowing he could have prevented it.
Written by Leslie Kennedy for BabyPost.com More from BabyPost A Helmet Saved my Husband's Life 8 Fabulous Father's Day Gifts Rebecca Eckler: How I Came Around to the Concept of Date Night

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The Very Real Consequences of Not Vaccinating Your Child

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"We sat down and said f...ing hippies, because we were hippies about it. We used our intuition and feelings but there's no place for it. There's just statistics on disease and adverse reactions." Stories that go viral about parenting always tweak interest because usually they share a new perspective or one that is against the grain.