Comments on: The Right to Choose, So Choose Carefully

By: The Great Now What

The Great Now What — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:43:01 +0000

[...] convinced. Some say that parents should have the right to choose to vaccinate or not; meanwhile, measles has been on the rise this year with some 131 cases so far reported, This focus on vaccines has come to preoccupy [...]

By: Another Voice

Another Voice — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:29:39 +0000

@Melody – I reread my original post in this thread (third from the top). I still don’t feel the concern I expressed is irrational.

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:27:19 +0000

I don’t think the use of the phrase “irrational fear” was meant to be personal. After all, if there’s not evidence backing up an idea, and evidence going against it, then it’s not a logical, rational idea.

By: Another Voice

Another Voice — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:22:39 +0000

@bev – You are entitled to your opinion and thank you for sharing it. Please don’t refer to my concern as an irrational fear.

I certainly support vaccinating; I don’t want any of those diseases to reappear. I must admit that each series of shots presents us with another risk assessment and more worry.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:09:46 +0000

Based on the latest readings ’round the web, that will take some doing.

By: Regan

Regan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:05:42 +0000

we’ll have too much on our hands and have to just forget about autism.

Or develop a sense of humility.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:57:28 +0000

Harris has seemed sometimes….sympathetic? ….. to the anti-vaccine/pro-vaccine-safety-ers.

Sure, bring on all those diseases and then we’ll have too much on our hands and have to just forget about autism.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:32:41 +0000

I don’t understand why all they talk about IS measles. What about diptheria? Whooping cough? Polio? Tetanus? Bring ‘em on?

By: H6

H6 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:06:27 +0000

I meant the editorial department, not the news department. There supposedly is a difference. Is this just another of their many editorials warning about the danger of the vaccine critics and whistleblowers?

There probably are those who consider Gardiner Harris’s reports to actually be editorials.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:42:08 +0000

@H6, the NY Times has been reporting on the vaccine issue fairly regularly, with the reporting often done by Gardiner Harris.

@Amber, We were very much stumbling in the dark when Charlie was just diagnose; everything was new and I just didn’t know what to make of all these therapies and treatments and evaluations and on and on. Hope the IEP meeting goes well—-are you going it on your own or bringing an advocate? We did the first meetings just with the two of us, my husband and me, but some advice and support would have meant a lot!