Katherine Morrison's List: Vaccine

There is a difference between staying informed and open about new data regarding the risks behind vaccines, and rejecting vaccination all together.


I think that the uncertainty about vaccination is, in the vast majority of cases, tremendously counterbalanced by the potential benefits it brings.


Skepticism is also, imo, a very misused word.


On Skepticism: http://tinyurl.com/mh6wwu


Overview of the issue: http://tinyurl.com/la2mjy


"The 14 studies": http://tinyurl.com/l56uqj


Analysis of the 14 studies: http://tinyurl.com/ctly3h


More:

http://tinyurl.com/lg7de4

http://tinyurl.com/nj2hug

http://tinyurl.com/ozkvpe

"Hot on the heels of yesterday's paper in Pediatrics showing that vaccine refusal elevates the risk of pertussis in a child by nearly 23-fold, a commentary in PLoS Biology asks what can be done to combat anti-vaccine misinformation. Entitled A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine-Autism Wars, it's an interview with a professor of medical anthropology at UCSF named Sharon Kaufman, who took a 26 month hiatus from her usual work on aging and longevity to study the anti-vaccine movement from an anthropological perspective. Her observations in some way echo observations I've been making as a commentator and blogger, but she also makes at least one suggestion that strikes me as rather implausible, if not wildly so."