Pediatrician Robert W. Sears, MD, wrote The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child, in which he outlines an untraditional “alternative” schedule that delays shots or spaces them further apart.
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On last night’s All in with Chris Hayes show on MSNBC, the host spoke to popular and often criticized pediatrician and author, Dr Bob Sears about his thoughts on delaying vaccines.
Hayes starts out asking Dr Sears, “Where is the published, peer-reviewed evidence to support to notion of a “overload” if you follow the CDC recommended schedule, where does that exist?”
“I don’t think there is any such research, I actually never claimed there was”, Sears said. “I certainly have put out there very clearly in my writings that my precautions about spreading out vaccines are theoretical, a theoretical benefit to kids and it’s a choice I think a lot of parents feel more comfortable about and might actually bring more parents to vaccinate if they can spread the shots out more than the regular schedule”.
Hayes later questions Sears motives for the book suggesting its it ploy to sell books. Sears calmly said, “If you go back to the 80s when we gave vaccines to children, we gave about 8 vaccines back then, almost all parents complied felt it was real safe and their wasn’t a lot of reactions. in the 90s, the 2000s and now, that number has moved from 8 vaccines to 54 vaccines. Some parents are trying to question, is this escalation too much for their little babies to handle and they want to spread it out.”
Asking Dr Sears if he is stoking the fears with “superstition” and ignoring research, the pediatrician pointed to the VAERS saying about 2,000 sever reactions are reported annually- The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national vaccine safety surveillance program co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after the administration of vaccines licensed for use in the United States.
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He does acknowledge that these are not proven reactions to the vaccines. Watch the rest of the interview below:
Thanks for the amazing interview, Chris. Sears has been getting a free pass from interviewers for years. I wish you had time to follow up on Sears’s asinine views on the hep B vaccine. Incidence if neonatal hep B declined significantly after the recommendation of the birth dose. Hep B is not just a sexually transmitted disease. Sears knows that, but can’t admit that he’s been wrong all these years.
Editor of Age of Autism said it best”Clearly, doctors and public health officials do know that vaccines can cause autism, because they couldn’t have missed the press accounts of awards in vaccine “court” for children who developed autism as a result of vaccination. Further, studies have found a much higher rate of autism and other developmental issues in boys vaccinated as newborns with the Hepatitis B vaccine.
There is a concerted effort to keep these truths from emerging and to replace them with the false idea that vaccines have been vindicated as never causing autism. That in effect is the “trutherism” right there.
What I find amazing is the credulity of the press – many journalists are too young, and some apparently too naïve, to run this idea through their Watergate filter. Here’s the truth: Public officials – and putting “health” in between those words doesn’t inoculate them – do conspire to create certain outcomes when their professional mission and personal reputation are on the line. And corporations are not immune, obviously”
Hells to the yes! This was long overdue. The only reason for delaying immunizations is to sell books.
Dr Hebert is not unaffiliated http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=+Corey+Hebert&state%5Bid%5D=19&company%5Bid%5D=&period%5B%5D=&services%5B%5D=&sort_order=asc&order=full_name
Dr. Sears is simply saying do ‘smart vaccine schedule’ and limit to only ‘necessary’ vaccines. Why are 54 vaccinations needed when 8 worked in 70’s and 80’s? Also kids since 90’s forward have more autoimmune diseases today. Why? Where are the studies vaccines are safe? Safer vaccines are needed, yes, and not as many are needed. Common sense. Demand safer and less vaccines. You do have a choice. Dr. Hebert is scare mongering….do your own research. Chris is not well informed on the subject either.
8 weren’t all that were necessary, 8 is all that were available. If all modern vaccines were available in the 70’s they would have been administered as well.
I applaud Dr. Sears for taking a stand against group think where too many people allow the major media and our government entities to do the thinking for society that we should be doing for ourselves.
Mr. Hayes’ website states “Chris Hayes comes at the nightly news with a unique spin. With a vested interest in eliminating the “crisis of authority in American life,” Hayes’s priority is letting the people be heard” I disagree. You come to the table with a one sided perspective…most especially with the vaccine safety issue. How much money does his show receive from Big Pharma commercials to keep him on the air? He seems to have more of a vested interested in NOT exploring vaccine safety than Dr. Sears. At any rate, this issue is NOT about vaccine safety, it is in fact about parental rights. I believe in vaccines, I also believe that one size does not fit all, and if there is a risk there must be a choice. If scientists were “allowed” to research and publish papers looking at the effects of *multiple* injections of vaccines into children at one time and take a long term look at those effects, then he could have a conversation about their purported safety for ALL children. Since that is not happening because the drug companies are afraid of the results, you can’t have a clear and concise conversation about he effects of 49 doses of vaccines on children by the age of 6. Mr. Hayes need to look at all sides of an issue before he comes with a biased view of the problem. He has NOT done his due diligence (clearly) and I must say this is unbiased journalism at it’s abhorrent worst. My question for him is, why isn’t he challenging the drug companies to fund studies on the effect of multiple doses of vaccines and their adjuvants on children before the age of 6? Once those studies are published, maybe there will be less of a fear. Maybe he could bulldog those drug companies into proving their safety in grave amounts. Now THOSE are the tough questions. Oh, one other “tough” question…when is he going to interview (Oh, I’d say at least) 20 families who have written documentation from their doctors that their child has indeed suffered from vaccines? When will he sit across from them, have a face to face, human being to human being conversation about their experience. And then when he listens…TRULY listens, will he tell them they are full of crap? Where is the compassion, and even more importantly where is the “educated-on-both-sides-of-the-issue” “unbiased journalism”?
I agree with your comments. Chris Hayes’ hard-lined opinion regarding vaccinations has always surprised me and seems out of character. It leaves me wanting to call him and say, “Give all of those vaccinations to your own children if you want, but don’t tell me I’m stupid or misinformed if I choose to not indiscriminately vaccinate my own children.” Perhaps when he became a parent, he made the decision to vaccinate his own children and justifies it by arguing that it’s the only responsible way to behave. You would think that his journalist curiosity would have caused him to at least agree there are documented legitimate concerns regarding vaccinations.
Even when the risk is less than 0.001 in a million? Choice on this issue is a terrible idea because there is so much false information being peddled by people who, by the way, have every bit as much of a vested interest in selling their alternative remedies/vaccine schedules/books/as you claim “Big Pharma” has in selling vaccines. The efficacy and safety of vaccines has been proven beyond doubt so many times and yet along comes Dr Bob with what he freely admits is a theory and all the evidence gets thrown out the window in favour of the ever moronic “hmmmmm makes sense doesn’t it?” approach to reasoning. Nobody ever said vaccines are perfect or that there are no adverse reactions in a tint tiny tiiiiiiiiiny percentage of recipients but the reality is that the percentage is so tiny the risk is absolutely worth it unless you are fond of the idea of the reintroduction of smallpox, polio and other vaccine preventable diseases
https://www.verywell.com/anti-vaccine-myths-and-misinformation-2633730
This is why we give more vaccines. Wish there was a vaccine against stupity…
https://www.verywell.com/anti-vaccine-myths-and-misinformation-2633730