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DISPELLING VACCINATION MYTHS
An introduction to the contradictions between medical science and immunization policy
c by Alan Phillips (alan_phillips@unc.edu)
Last Revision: February 1997
INTRODUCTION
MYTH #1: "Vaccines are completely safe..."
MYTH #2: "Vaccines are very effective..."
MYTH #3: "Vaccines are the main reason for low disease rates
in the U.S. today..."
MYTH #4: "Vaccination is based on sound immunization theory
and practice..."
MYTH #5: "Childhood diseases are extremely
dangerous..."
MYTH #6: "Polio was one of the clearly great vaccination
success stories..."
MYTH #7: "My child had no short-term reaction to
vaccination, so there is nothing to worry about..."
MYTH #8: "Vaccines are the only disease prevention option
available..."
MYTH #9: "Vaccinations are legally mandated, and thus
unavoidable..."
MYTH #10: "Public health officials always place health above
all other concerns..."
SUMMARY and About the Author...
*Permission freely granted to copy and redistribute DISPELLING VACCINATION MYTHS in
full for any nonprofit purpose. (Download text version here.)
Persons concerned with for-profit distribution, electronic postings, and other concerns
should contact the author at Vaccine Awareness, P.O. Box 62282, Durham, NC 27715 or by
email at alan_phillips@unc.edu.
See the Informed Parents Vaccination Home Page on the World Wide Web
at URL: http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/imformed.htm
Note: Dr. Ed Friedlander, at pathguy.com/antiimmu.htm, critiques
and faults a number of "anti-vaccination" articles, including Alan Phillips'
Dispelling Vaccination Myths. An interesting researcher (pathguy.com/vacdeath.htm) Friedlander is "undertaking a project to publish the significant findings in the autopsy reports of children of who have died as a result of immunizations."
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