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I don’t know if the MMR vaccine is harmful or beneficial. The literature says it is 97% effective but if true this payola to pediatricians is troubling.
The payola is a reality, Fred, and it changes everything, unfortunately.
Second thought:
Study of 1.2 Million Children Finds No Risk From Common Vaccine Additive
Health
16 July 2025
By Carly Cassella
A massive, 24-year-long study of more than 1.2 million children provides reassurance to parents around the world.
The research has found no compelling evidence that childhood vaccines lead to autism, asthma, or dozens of other chronic disorders.
Researchers in Denmark examined the safety of a specific vaccine ingredient – aluminum salts – which, despite frequent debunking, remains a common talking point among vaccine skeptics. Clinical trials have tested their safety extensively, and they’ve been used in non-live vaccines for more than 70 years to boost the immune system’s response to lower doses of medicine.
Though the salts contain aluminum ions, their chemical properties are quite different to those of pure aluminum.
“It’s really important for parents to understand that we are not injecting metal into children,” epidemiologist and senior author Anders Hviid from Statens Serum Institute in Denmark told NBC News.
“Our study addresses many of these concerns and provides clear and robust evidence for the safety of childhood vaccines.”
Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBbQU5WWpsg&t=76s
Thanks, Fred, for sharing that. That study would have to be scrutinized and evaluated in the context of all the other studies out there.
Huge lie!
I’d be interested to know who financed the study. Numbers can be twisted to show whatever results one desires to show. I know from experience that a pediatrician here in Greensboro threatened to fire us from her practice. We were vaccinating, but on a delayed schedule, hoping to not overwhelm the immune system. We had the first MMR at age 4 and my child had an obvious neurological reaction, so we opted to not give the second dose. Thankfully, my child recovered and we moved to another state shortly after that was more accommodating with vaccine choice.
There is no question, 4merTxn, that every study must be scrutinized to assure that they are done correctly and to make sure that the proper inferences are drawn. There are many bad studies out there. It requires training to know how to analyze studies for quality and validity.
This is the kind of corruption you get in a fascist system of medicine. People are not aware of how collectivized and anti-free market the medical-industrial complex is.
I am aware of situations in North Carolina where families are excluded from pediatric practices because of wanting to be selective regarding vaccines. The General Assembly ought to make that illegal. It is horribly corrupt.
Here is an article that outlines the flaws in the aluminum study:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/study-claiming-no-link-between-aluminum-vaccines-autism-riddled-flaws/