Have questions about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases?
Still on the fence?
Or do you think you have done enough research already?
If that research has you asking for package inserts and requesting low aluminum vaccines, then you might need to rethink how you have been doing your research.
Get Educated About Vaccines
Vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary.
They aren’t full of toxins.
They have been tested together.
Pediatricians do know a lot about vaccines. What they may not know is how to counter every anti-vaccine argument that you might have heard of, read about, or with which one of your family members is scaring you.
“Pediatricians who routinely recommend limiting the numbers of vaccines administered at a single visit such that vaccines are administered late are providing care that deviates from the standard evidence-based schedule recommended by these bodies.”
American Academy of Pediatrics
You can rest assured that these arguments have all been debunked, often many years ago, but they keep coming up, over and over again. In fact, today’s anti-vaccine movement uses many of the same themes as folks used when the first vaccines were introduced over one hundred years ago.
50 Ways To Get Educated About Vaccines
So before deciding to skip or delay any of your child’s vaccines, do some real research about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases and:
- Understand the Pseudoscience Behind the Anti-Vaccine Movement
- Review the contraindications to vaccines and even more common, the things commonly misperceived as contraindications
- Examine the evidence for the safety of vaccines
- Get answers to the 9 Questions For The Pro-Vaxers
- Know that Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism
- Read about these Five Things I’ve Learned About Vaccines Through 21 Years of Parenting
- Learn the Tactics and Tropes of the Anti-vaccine Movement
- Know that kids do not get too many vaccines too soon and that vaccines don’t overwhelm your child’s immune system
- Understand these Vaccine Safety Basics
- Don’t listen to these anti-vaccine celebrities
- Get the details of Andrew Wakefield’s fraud
- Study why those Graphs That Show Vaccines Don’t Work are just propaganda
- Know that you can’t hide your kids in the herd to avoid disease
- Read why “Spacing Out” Vaccines Doesn’t Make Them Safer
- Wonder why parents misuse religious exemptions to excuse kids from vaccines
- See the evidence that Flu Shots Work for Kids Under Two
- Review these questions and answers on immunization and vaccine safety
- Learn Why My Child With Autism Is Fully Vaccinated
- Know that You Can Be the Pro-Life Parent of a Fully Vaccinated Child
- See how Having a baby doesn’t change the facts on vaccines
- Question Vaccine Injury Stories: the Sacred Cows of the Internet
- Read An Open Letter to Expecting Parents and Parents Yet-To-Be about Vaccinating
- Know that there is No Clear Evidence that Vaccines Cause Autism
- Learn from those who have Left the Anti-Vaccine Movement
- Understand why you’re wrong if you think the flu vax gives you the flu
- Avoid Cashing In On Fear: The Danger of Dr. Sears
- Realize that Almost All Religions Support Immunizations
- Learn which vaccines are the most important to get
- See that Unvaccinated Children Can Have Autism Too
- View Personal Stories of Families Affected by Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
- Know who is at risk if you don’t vaccinate your kids
- Read about the most common Misconceptions about Vaccines
- Review the Benefits vs. Risks of getting vaccinated
- Learn about the Ingredients in Vaccines
- Realize that vaccines are carefully monitored for safety, even after they have been approved, and it isn’t just by folks reporting side effects to VAERS
- Know that those 124 Research Papers Supporting the Vaccine/Autism Link Really Don’t
- Understand what Vaccine Package Inserts really do and don’t tell you
- See why the CDC Whistleblower really has no whistle to blow
- Know that the Vaccine Court did not say that vaccines cause autism
- What to consider if Deciding whether to alter the immunization schedule
- Learn why Shedding from Vaccines isn’t a danger to your kids
- Review even more Misconceptions about Immunizations
- Understand The Science Behind Vaccine Research and Testing
- Know that your Unvaccinated Child isn’t going to be Healthier than Vaccinated Kids
- Realize just how important the HPV vaccine really is
- Learn How to Respond to Inaccurate Posts about Vaccines on Social Media
- Know that vaccines are studied in pregnant women
- See the real dangers in following Jenny McCarthy’s advice
- Know that VAERS reports are often misused and understand that parents can report suspected adverse events to VAERS themselves
- Fill out a screening questionnaire for contraindications to vaccines
Still have questions? Read one or more of these Vaccine Books
And talk to your doctor about your concerns about vaccines.
Get Educated. Get Vaccinated.
More Ways To Get Educated About Vaccines
These websites and blogs will also help you get educated about vaccines and research any addition questions you might have:
- AAP – Child Vaccination Across America
- CDC – Vaccines for Your Children
- Autism Science Foundation
- Dr. Jen Gunter
- Emily Willingham
- Every Child By Two
- EZIZ
- Families Fighting Flu
- Harpocrates Speaks
- the History of Vaccines
- Immunization Action Coalition
- Immunize Canada
- Immunize for Good
- Institute for Vaccine Safety
- I Speak of Dreams
- Just the Vax
- Left Brain Right Brain
- National Meningitis Association
- Moms Who Vax
- National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
- Neurologica
- Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters
- Nurses Who Vaccinate
- Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases
- PedsGeekMD
- Red Wine and Applesauce
- Respectful Insolence
- Shot of Prevention
- the Skeptical OB
- Skeptical Raptor
- The Poxes Blog
- The Thinking Persons Guide to Autism
- TIP Talk
- Vaccinate Your Family
- the Vaccine Blog
- Vaccine Education Center
- the Vaccine Mom
- the Vaccine Page (Facebook)
- Voices for Vaccines
Last Updated on October 23, 2017