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<\/a><\/p>\nby Brian Shilhavy<\/strong> Where do licensed physicians who practice medicine in the U.S. stand today regarding the current vaccine debate to remove informed consent to vaccines? This is one area of the debate where\u00a0you are not likely to hear both sides in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n Mainstream media, for the most part, is biased\u00a0in its coverage of the current vaccine debate when it comes to the issue of removing informed consent, and not allowing parents to exempt their children from vaccines. The debate is positioned as parents against doctors, with parents supposedly representing emotional pleas, while doctors are supposedly unified in stating that \u201cthe science is settled\u201d regarding vaccines, and universally in favor of mandatory vaccination policy removing parental exemptions.<\/p>\n However, nothing could be further from the truth in the vaccine debate. Doctors are not unified at all on their positions regarding \u201cthe science\u201d of vaccines, nor are they unified in the position of removing informed consent to a medical procedure like vaccines.<\/p>\n In this article, I am going to summarize the many doctors today who do not take the most extremist pro-vaccine position, which is probably not held by very many doctors at all, in spite of what the pharmaceutical industry, the federal government, and the mainstream media would like the public to believe.<\/p>\n One of the biggest myths being propagated in the compliant mainstream media today is that doctors are either pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine, and that the anti-vaccine doctors are all \u201cquacks.\u201d<\/p>\n However, any journalist or investigative reporter covering this issue with any integrity at all will quickly discover that this is very far from the truth.<\/p>\n As is illustrated in our infographic at the top of this article, we can broadly categorize many different\u00a0positions on vaccines that doctors hold to and follow in their practice of treating patients. The two most extreme positions are those who are 100% against vaccines and do not administer them at all, and those doctors who believe all vaccines are completely safe and effective, and should be forced upon everyone\u00a0who does not share their belief.<\/p>\n Very few doctors fall into either of these two extremist positions, and yet it is the extreme pro-vaccine position that is presented by the U.S. Government and mainstream media as being the dominant position of the medical field.<\/p>\n In between these two extreme views, however, is where the vast majority of doctors practicing today would probably categorize their position. Many doctors who consider themselves \u201cpro-vaccine,\u201d for example, do not believe that every single vaccine is appropriate for every single individual. They would be opposed to government-mandated vaccinations and the removal of parental exemptions.<\/p>\n Many doctors recommend a \u201cdelayed\u201d vaccine schedule for some patients, and not always the recommended one-size-fits-all CDC childhood schedule. Other doctors choose to recommend vaccines based on the actual science and merit of each\u00a0vaccine, recommending some, while determining that others are not worth the risk for children, such as the suspect seasonal flu shot.<\/p>\n The most extremist pro-vaccine doctors, those that believe ALL vaccines are safe and effective for ALL people, ALL the time, by force if necessary, are best represented by two high-profile doctors:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dr. Paul A. Offit<\/strong>, MD is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the mainstream media\u2019s go-to spokesperson for vaccines. Dr. Offit is on record as stating that \u201ca baby\u2019s immune system could handle as many as 10,000 vaccines.\u201d He holds a patent for one of the childhood vaccines recommended by the CDC, so he has a financial incentive to promote vaccines. Whenever he is scheduled to speak about vaccines, if he finds out that someone else will be appearing with him at the same time to give the opposing view, he immediately cancels his appearance, as he does not believe in free speech when it comes to vaccines<\/a>, and believes his position is the only correct one. He once stated publicly that any reporter who covered someone articulating\u00a0a different view on vaccines than what he believed\u00a0should be punished and go to \u201cjournalism jail<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n When Sharyl Attkisson still worked for CBS, she ran a story with then anchor Katie Couric about his massive conflict of interest:<\/p>\n
\nEditor, Health Impact News<\/strong><\/p>\nDispelling the Myth that All Doctors are Either Pro-Vaccine or Anti-Vaccine<\/h2>\n
Who Are the Extremist Pro-Vaccine Doctors?<\/h2>\n
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