On the Sunday, Jan. 18 airing of the talk radio program dedicated to infectious diseases, Outbreak News This Week, host Robert Herriman spent the lion’s share of the hour talking to Paul A. Offit, MD, Director of the Vaccine Education Center and a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The interview consisted of discussing and rebutting the “10 Reasons Not To Vaccinate” article published on the anti-vaccine website, Vactruth.com last month.
Dr. Offit was asked to comment on such arguments as “Vaccine do NOT work”, “Are vaccines cause a host of ‘chronic, incurable, and life threatening diseases’? and “Vaccines have never been proven safe or effective”.
In addition, Dr. Offit weighed in on the measles outbreak linked to Disney theme parks in California.
Listen to the interview below:
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Thank you for giving Dr. Offit an opportunity to counter the misinformation. It’s so easy for anyone to put anything on the internet but it’s hard to keep up to correct the many vaccine myths that are shared. I appreciate the organizations and websites that provide nurses and doctors a venue to provide the correct, up-to-date information on immunizations and infectious diseases. Keep up the good work!
MelodyRN- Founder of Nurses Who Vaccinate
Interesting, if you have a look at the “Vactruth” site and the 10 questions referred to in this interview, question 5 refers to thimerosal as methyl mercury! This is wrong of course as it is ethyl mercury. Typical anti-vax propaganda!