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Domo1
OP are you serious? Do you know how vaccines work?
NaturalNews needs to be banned from this site.
You know how I know where Attkisson’s coming from and that it’s not anything resembling objectivity? Its her use of the “10,000 vaccines at once” canard. It’s a favorite among the anti-vaccine crowd, because they use it to make it sound as though Dr. Offit is some sort of crazy ideologue who wants nothing more than to inject as many vaccines as possible into babies. Let’s take a look at what Dr. Offit actually said and see if it sounds so ominous:
“Children have an enormous capacity to respond safely to challenges to the immune system from vaccines,” says Dr. Offit. “A baby’s body is bombarded with immunologic challenges – from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe. Compared to what they typically encounter and manage during the day, vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean.” In fact, Dr. Offit’s studies show that in theory, healthy infants could safely get up to 10,000 vaccines at once.
The bottom line: It’s safe to give your child simultaneous vaccines or vaccine combinations, such as the five-in-one vaccine called Pediarix, which protects against hepatitis B, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (also known as whooping cough. Equally important, vaccines are as effective given in combination as they are given individually.
Nope, nothing ominous there at all. Dr. Offit was simply pointing out that babies’ immune systems can handle far more antigens than are in any vaccines or combination of vaccines presently administered. I rather suspect he probably regrets using that exact turn of phrase, though, because it’s been a favorite whipping boy of anti-vaccinationists ever since he first said it back in 2005
boncho
It's more like a math equation,
ex.
Body has 100,000 of this ______, 1 handles a vaccine, therefore 10,000 would barely tax the system. (Again, this is arbitrary as he wasn't speaking about real-world application)
Taissa
Dr. Oz' wife will not allow their children to be given vaccines of any sort. I believe that says it all for me.
boncho
Great way to promote stupid. No surprise it's from NN, in any case though, if you care to take an objective look at things... Offit was speaking in "figure of speech" or in an arbitrary way, to point out what a human immune system deals with on the daily. He was of course, speaking about theory, and citing what the body deals with, not suggesting that a child actually take 10,000 vaccines. It's more like a math equation,
ex.
Body has 100,000 of this ______, 1 handles a vaccine, therefore 10,000 would barely tax the system. (Again, this is arbitrary as he wasn't speaking about real-world application)
You know how I know where Attkisson’s coming from and that it’s not anything resembling objectivity? Its her use of the “10,000 vaccines at once” canard. It’s a favorite among the anti-vaccine crowd, because they use it to make it sound as though Dr. Offit is some sort of crazy ideologue who wants nothing more than to inject as many vaccines as possible into babies. Let’s take a look at what Dr. Offit actually said and see if it sounds so ominous:
“Children have an enormous capacity to respond safely to challenges to the immune system from vaccines,” says Dr. Offit. “A baby’s body is bombarded with immunologic challenges – from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe. Compared to what they typically encounter and manage during the day, vaccines are literally a drop in the ocean.” In fact, Dr. Offit’s studies show that in theory, healthy infants could safely get up to 10,000 vaccines at once.
The bottom line: It’s safe to give your child simultaneous vaccines or vaccine combinations, such as the five-in-one vaccine called Pediarix, which protects against hepatitis B, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (also known as whooping cough. Equally important, vaccines are as effective given in combination as they are given individually.
Nope, nothing ominous there at all. Dr. Offit was simply pointing out that babies’ immune systems can handle far more antigens than are in any vaccines or combination of vaccines presently administered. I rather suspect he probably regrets using that exact turn of phrase, though, because it’s been a favorite whipping boy of anti-vaccinationists ever since he first said it back in 2005
scienceblogs.com...
Oh, and nice job at rehashing an offquote from 2005...