18 assertions about vaccines: Starter bonus: "I'm doing the research that your pediatrician NEVER had to do"

It reads:

VACCINATING PARENTS:

This research is NOT for me.  It's for YOU!  I'm doing the research that your pediatrician NEVER had to do. Pay attention, and know I care. 

Assumption: physicians are uneducated about vaccines.

Here, a physician speaks about the investment in understanding the immune system that underlies physicians' understanding of immunization

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Facts from one physician.

"So I thought about that and added up time I spent learning immunology and infectious disease in the First Two Years of medical school. Without even counting the related fields of physiology, the respiratory system, gastroenterology, histology, neurology, etc, I came up with 920 hours of graduate education in immunolgy, microbiology, and infectious disease – and that’s before ever hitting the wards in 3rd and 4th years.

And of course that doesn’t even count the time spent in training by Family Practice, Pediatrics, or Internal Medicine residents.

If we presume that my (rather average) medical school was representative, then most doctors spend ~ 920 hours in graduate education in this field before ever being allowed to sit for the Step I Board Exam and, if we passed it, allowed onto wards and into clinics.

And all of that is miniscule compared to the amount of education involved for biomedical researchers in the field who are the ones figuring out these principles. We doctors need to know how to understand and apply those principles, since we don’t have to derive the background information ourselves. A PhD in the field would have easily spent 70-80 hrs/week in class, labs, and reading, at least 45 weeks per year, for about 4 years.

That’s 75x45x4= 13,500 hours of graduate education, not including Bachelor’s or Master’s Degrees. For a researcher with 10 years experience, that’s a minimum of 13,500 + (2080 hrs/yr x 10 yrs) = 34,300 hours of education, training, experience."

Source:

Yes, doctors know what they’re talking about: Refuting a common anti-vaccine argument.

Verdict: The Author's Opinion

Here is the list of claims, with links to the discussion of each claim:

• Bonus: Claim that "I'm doing the research that your pediatrician NEVER had to do."
• #1 Combined doses of Vaccines have NEVER been tested for safety. 
• #2 Vaccine manufacturers have been granted legal immunity from being sued when their products inflict damage. 
• #3 DNA from aborted fetuses is in vaccines.  
• #4 the CDC has been caught destroying and hiding evidence  
• #5 outbreaks occur in populations that are up to 90-99% vaccinated -- herd immunity a myth 
• #6 More people die from the MMR vaccine itself than die of the measles. 
• #7 Peanut allergies were almost unheard of prior to the use of peanut oil in vaccines. 
• #8 Multiple independent studies have shown vaccinated children are more likely to have asthma. 
• #9 Information on vaccines is hidden from parents.
• #10 Vaccine package inserts prove the dangers of vaccines.
• #11 Doctors are bribed to vaccinate  
• #12 Vaccine manufacturers and the CDC are only self-regulated
• #13 Doctors are ill-informed about vaccines 
• #14 Vaccines cause SIDS&
• #15 Diseases have been renamed after the introduction of a vaccine. 
• #16 The anti-vaccine movement isn't new  
• #17 All live virus vaccines shed and cause diseases  
• #18 Combining acetaminophen and vaccines is dangerous. 
• Bonus: MTHFR gene variants and vaccination  

Comments

[NickJ]

I would also add the following anecdote from a doctor responding to amount of time studying vaccines:

"Ok, let me break it down:

You start off learning physics chemistry and biology. Physics shows you how individual subatomic particles work and interact. Chemistry shows you how these interactions between particles result in chemical reactions and explains the rules these reactions follow. Biology shows you how these reactions work together to allow a cell to function it also goes into how groups of cells can talk to each other chemically and form tissues.

Next come biochemistry, molecular cell biology, organic chemistry, genetics, microbiology and histology. Biochemistry focuses on those reactions most important to life, while organic chemistry gives you more in depth knowledge of the rules that those reactions are governed by, building on what you learned in physics. Molecular cell biology focuses on all of the interactions within a single cell. Genetics is self explanatory, how DNA and genes work which is covered in several of these other classes but here you stress every chemical and physical detail. Microbiology teaches you about microorganisms and their role in the environment as well as their internal chemistry. Histology takes what you learned about a single cell in biology and shows you how many cells working together can form a tissue and how tissues can form an organ.

From here we move on to: embryology anatomy, neuro-manatomy, physiology, and regulatory physiology. Embryology teaches us how we developed from fertilization onward and sets the stage for Anatomy which teaches you how the structures you learned about in embryology which are formed from the tissues you learned about in biology/histology function together physically and on a macro level. Neuroanatomy is the same thing as anatomy but given the complexity of the nervous system is a whole class in it's own right. Physiology teaches how those organs communicate and interact on a chemical level drawing from all the chemistry knowledge you now have and regulatory physiology specifically focuses on the signaling pathways that are most important.

Ok so NOW you start learning actual medicine: pathology, pharmacology, clinical systems: pathology takes what you learned about anatomy and histology and how things work and starts to show you what happens if things in those systems start going wrong. It builds on what you learned in microbiology and genetics as well. This is where you learn about infectious bacteria, virus and prions, autoimmune disease, genetic disorders, metabolic disease and all manner of other ailments. You learn the inner chemical and physical workings of these diseases and how they effect the body function. Pharmacology teaches you how introduction of particular chemicals to the body can either increase or decrease the activity of the pathways you learned about in physiology. You learn that it is impossible to introduce a new chemical pathway to the body, only modify the functions of the ones that are there. Pretty much all pharmaceuticals are based on this notion. Finally in clinical systems you learn how to piece Anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology together with your physical exam (physical exam is another class) to look at a patient and interpret what you see and combine it with the data from lab tests to synthesize a diagnosis and provide the proper treatment.

After you have mastered all of that, congratulations you still have two more years of medical school to go, rotating in hospitals to get practical experience before going into a residency for 3-10 years to get further training in a specialty.

Now do you understand why I think your "well researched" opinion which was formed from a week of google searches is total bullshit?"

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