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Author: Suzanne B. Robotti
Suzanne is the President and Founder of MedShadow, and the Executive Director of DES Action USA. MedShadow’s mission is to preserve quality of life by ensuring everyone has access to the risks, benefits and alternates to using drugs to manage healthcare. Read More
Uninformed Consent, A Healthy Skeptic’s Take
I finally finished the entire film, Uninformed Consent (great title), and I have a lot to say about it. It is produced, written, and edited (and filmed!) by Todd Michael Harris. Vaccine Choice Canada and Children’s Health Defense are both credited as executive producers. Both of these organizations have public positions that include skepticism of all vaccines. For example, the institutions have both promoted views tying autism speculation to long-used and well-tolerated vaccines – which are a key part of the dramatic increase in the length of average human life over the past 50-plus years. The film challenges the safety…
Like you, I’ve heard a lot about the Frontline Doctors organization that materialized, seemingly, out of nowhere to stand on the Supreme Court steps in July and declare that much of the COVID-19 information that the CDC (Centers for Disease Prevention and Treatment), the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and individual state authorities were giving out was a lie. While garnering headlines, the Frontline Doctors produced its breakout star, emergency room physician and attorney Simone Gold, MD. Because a good friend asked my opinion of Gold’s recent video, I spent an hour watching her YouTube lecture. Although the video has…
Within the next year, millions of people will receive one of three, or more, new COVID-19 vaccines. Two of them will likely be mRNA-based vaccines, never before approved for human vaccine use. With technology that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed, we could track COVID-19 vaccine recipients and gather massive amounts of data comparing in the real world which vaccine(s) is the most effective, for how long, with which subpopulations and how safe? But we’ll only know that if we act now. Are we about to squander this historic opportunity? The CDC has an app to…
What kind of person would volunteer to be a test subject for the COVID-19 vaccination? What motivates her or him?
The Risks of Taking Statins
Is your cholesterol high? Has your doctor suggested you might be at risk for heart disease? If so, you have some decisions to make. You need to know that you can likely improve your health and lower your cholesterol by simple lifestyle changes like exercise and changing your diet. You also will likely have the option of taking a statin. The fact that people have choices in their health care is very important and something we explore at MedShadow, an online nonprofit I founded to inform the public about the side effects, risks and benefits of medicine, both prescription and…
Vaccine Risks vs Benefits
You have an 83x greater chance of being hit by lightning than having an adverse effect from a vaccine. So why are some parents so fearful? Everyone who is listening has already heard or read that the lone research paper linking autism to vaccines has been disproved. It was wrong. Then why are so many parents hesitant to vaccinate their child? After all, it’s a near certainty that those very parents were vaccinated and they are fine. Yet still, some wonder why they should take that 1 in a million chance that a vaccine given to their child will cause harm?…
Are Statins Overprescribed?
Does it really make sense to put a large group of people on a drug whose effectiveness hasn’t been proven for that group? What at first looked like a creeping increase in statin prescriptions is turning into a gallop. Despite the significant and life-altering side effects that this class of cholesterol-lowering drugs can cause, the USPSTF (US Preventative Services Task Force) is likely to approve a broadening of the group of adults for whom statins are recommended — without including a recommendation to try lifestyle changes to lower cholesterol first. The USPSTF is proposing that any healthy adult between the ages…
Which Fear Do Parents Respond To Vaccines?
Some parents thought that given an option between measles and vaccines, they could choose ‘neither.’ But now there’s an uptick in vaccination compliance What’s more frightening to a parent — measles which historically killed thousands of children each year before the MMR vaccines became available or the possibility of a side effect from the vaccination? It’s been well-documented that for the past several years a small but growing number of parents have been more afraid of rumored autism links (debunked many times) than what seemed to be no risk of measles. Doctors are calling this “vaccination hesitation.” Parents may wonder…
HPV vaccine and the Japanese question
Have you been hearing all the rumors about bad side effects from the HPV vaccine? It’s the vaccination for cervical cancer, genital warts and more. If you’re a parent in the US, you have probably heard them. The rate of HPV vaccinations in the US is lagging far behind other countries and studies show it’s because many parents are unconvinced that this vaccination is safe. Our family doctor suggested strongly that our teenage son get the vaccination (approved for boys in 2011). Before I agreed, I turned to the Internet. In scanning web sites and news articles I have found…
Statins: What to Believe?
It’s not easy being a consumer. The information available to the public is often contradictory and confusing. For example, take the issue of statins (Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor, etc.). There are many known side effects of statins, some beneficial, some not so much. When reading on-line discussions of statin side effects, there are many who complain of sexual dysfunction caused by statins. However, a recent study claims that statins help cure erectile dysfunction. Huh? How can it both help and hurt sexual function? After reviewing the research available to consumers (the staff at MedShadow is made up of consumers like you), it…
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