Further proof that public fear about children becoming autistic from a vaccine has reached a fever pitch: An Upper West Side pediatrician has admitted to faking the immunization records of four children. The two families did not want to have their young children, who needed the shots to attend school, vaccinated, due to fears of a vaccine-autism link. The doctor, Dr. Mark Nesselson, has been fined $10,000 by a disciplinary panel and told that he can only practice under supervision. From today’s New York Post:
Nesselson said he got into trouble after he moved to Hawaii two years ago and gave medical records to his patients’ parents to take to their new doctors. The new pediatrician seen by two families turned in Nesselson to authorities, he said. He signed a consent form with the state Office for Professional Medical Conduct agreeing to its penalties, which include taking a course in medical ethics and three years of monitoring.
Despite Nesselson’s concerns, an overwhelming number of public-health officials and pediatricians insist vaccines are safe and necessary. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains: “The great preponderance of evidence is that there’s no link between vaccines and autism.”A Manhattan mother of two for whom Nesselson falsified records said she did not want her kids to have the shot for measles, mumps and rubella – the MMR vaccine – until they were older.
The worried mom said since the family never traveled and the diseases were rare in New York, she didn’t feel she was putting her kids or others at risk.
“The form was filled out,” she said of the falsified record. “We knew what we were doing.”She said her children had the vaccine when they were older – after they entered school.
Some parents who don’t want to vaccinate their kids characterized Nesselson as a hero.
A hero, if one thinks that Andrew Wakefield is one too, and a hero only for those who could afford it: According to a Mothering.com discussion board in 2004, Dr. Nesselson was “mega-expensive,” charging $650 for initial visit, $375 for regular visits. So would that mean a parent would possibly have to pay over $1000 for those “doctored” records……………
I know this is an old thread. I am a parent with a child that sees a naturopathic physician. Immunizations may start when the immune system is mature. As a baby, the immune system is not ready yet and can be overwhelmed by vaccines in some children. For many it is fine, but for some it should wait.
Immunizations may be a good idea if/when there is a threat. FLU is only a threat to weak immune systems. I would rather naturally get the FLU and get over it in a week then force it into my system.
Bottom line… It’s the parent’s choice if/when to vaccinate.
Yes there have been outbreaks in the past…. but you are all still here … without thousands of years of vaccines… I wonder why….
My personal belief is that they are not necessary and that the industries that profit and lobby for laws requiring them is corrupt.
Did you see the movie “The Matrix”. It’s time to wake up.
I have to join daedalus2u in being somewhat concerned about some of the statements you have made, Carl.
“It doesn’t take a genius to know that introducing RNA and DNA of germs, bacteria, animals and embryos directly in to the bloodstream can’t be good for the body.”
No, because thanks to the way knowledge works, it doesn’t take much to know something (I can know that no one ever has touched the moon, for example). As to ultimate truth value? You’re waaay far off, and even in the most visceral.
I won’t get into the nature of some of these phrases (“can’t be good”? There have been tons of postulates that vaccines can be good in the sense in which you are talking). I’d just say that perhaps it would be prudent to look into the diseases which we are talking about. Not to mention you have enforced many stereotypes in a single sentence that might need to be questioned. For sake of introduction, physiology of stress as we have seen it says that some stress is actually healthy.
Cliff
Carl you are dangerously ignorant and dangerously wrong. You are spouting nonsense.
It is completely false that vaccines disrupt the immune system. It is completely false that diseases can be avoided simply by being breast fed, eating well, and being in a loving home. Those things help and are to be encouraged, but they don’t have the magical effects that you think they have.
The scam is the one being put out by the anti-vax propagandists who make profits too, selling useless homeopathic crap, organic food, and other stuff.
Vaccines are never injected into the blood stream.
As a child, I was vaccinated against smallpox. I still have the scar. They don’t vaccinate the general population for small pox any more. They don’t need to because it was eradicated by vaccination. Small pox vaccine has saved the lives of at least a billion people.
Carl you are dangerously ignorant and dangerously wrong. Your delusional ideas of how to maintain health are dangerous and have no basis in science.
Sorry to be so harsh, but if people follow your advice they will be injured and end up getting diseases that could have been prevented.
By the way you are not forced to get vaccines for your child to attend school, that is a misconception that is heavily endorsed by corrupt politicians and pharmaceutical companies. All you need to do is sign a waiver form citing religious reasons and you’re home free. It’s your God given right not to allow invasive medecine for your children such as vaccines.
The US government has conceded that some kids develop autism from vaccines in a recent case. It doesn’t take a genius to know that introducing RNA and DNA of germs, bacteria, animals and embryos directly in to the bloodstream can’t be good for the body. Every virus that enters our bodies is supposed to go through some sort of filtration process via the ears, nose mouth and eyes. The whole vaccine thing is a scam, a cash cow for giant pharmaceutical companies to profit off us. I know 6 people that were never vaccinated and they never got sick…ever. Vaccines disrupt the immune system and don’t allow it to mature naturally the way it was meant to. If you are breast fed, eat well, grow up in a loving home with no stress, you will never get the diseases these vaccines are supposedly meant to prevent. Even if you do catch one your body will get rid of it like it was a common cold. Here’s a news flash…corporations deal in fear propoganda and love profits and more profits.
I agree fully with Rhonda.It should be the parent who should decide weather or not their child should be vaccinated at such a young age.It is best to wait until children are older and can handle these vaccines.Hepatitis shots are given to a child before they leave the hospital.The EPA limit is 0.1 micrograms of mercury per kilogram body weight per day.”It doesn’t take a genius to do the calculations when on their day of birth children are given the hepatitis B vaccine, which is 12.5 micrograms of mercury”. “The average newborn weighs between six and seven pounds, so they would be allowed 0.3 micrograms of mercury ? but in this one shot they are getting 12.5 micrograms. That’s 39 times more than allowed by law.”