The leading causes of death in the United States (U.S.) are heart disease and strokes.…
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?
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?…
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…
As a DES daughter (my mother was given a drug in pregnancy that crossed the placental barrier and caused lots of problems for lots of DES daughters like me), I am very, very uncomfortable with a pregnant woman receiving any kind of drugs. Most times, “just say no” is the best policy for over-the-counter and prescription drugs during pregnancy, as most doctors would council. But to every rule, there are exceptions and, perhaps, the annual flu shot is just such an exception. Study: Flu Shot During Pregnancy A study reported by the New York Times on March 21, 2013 reviewed…
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