Talk:Childhood immunizations in the United States

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Did this page for a school project. Feel free to add whatever you want, so long as it complies with wiki standards of course. Mitziferret (talk) 03:28, 11 April 2014 (UTC)Mitziferret

Anti-Vaccination

I think two separate issues have been conflated here. I can find no mention of Andrew Wakefield under Thiomersal controversy and vice-versa. I think MMR vaccine and thiomersal are two separate controversies. Biscuittin (talk) 20:48, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

If thiomersal content were a problem then it would apply to all thiomersal-containing vaccines, not just the MMR vaccine. Biscuittin (talk) 20:56, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

More Information

American Academy of Pediatrics This is a link to a page refuting the claims in the original study done by Wakefield. The Lancet This is the original study done by Wakefield which you can see has been retracted.

The reason you probably think that these are two separate controversies is because the media doesn't report about the original findings that caused the anti-vaccination movement. It was originally Wakefield saying that the thimerosal in the MMR vaccine is what caused autism. This claim was later debunked and Wakefield's medical license was revoked. You were right in that the Thiomersal controversy page did not have any mention of Andrew Wakefield, I posted on the talk page asking them to fix it and added my links. The Andrew Wakefield page does not contain the word "Thimerosal", and I have posted this to that talk page as well.

The only vaccine that is still on the market that contains thimerosal is multidose vials of the flu shot, which is in this article "Thimerosal is used in these mutli-dose vials to prevent contamination from multiple preparations. Contamination of the vaccine could cause serious infection. In a .5mL dose (which is in a single flu shot), there is 25 µg (micrograms) of mercury. This is 0.01% of the dose.[40] Single dose vials do not contain thimerosal"

Mitziferret (talk) 16:20, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Evaluation of Childhood Vaccination Article

In the article Childhood Immunization in the United States various contributors examine the causes, effects and remedies used to solve various diseases the effect the population. While reading the article I was surprised by the lack of information provided for opposing arguments, which leads me to believe that the majority of contributors answered added information according to their bias. Moreover, the bias is not noted which means that the article is lacking in argument and geared toward audiences that agree with notion of children being vaccinated to prevent spread of disease in young children. Although the everything in the article is relevant is needs to include the opinion of naysayers and disprove their arguments against vaccinations in order to be used effectively in studies and valid viewpoints. Daword95 (talk) 03:43, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

The opposing arguments are pseudoscientific nonsense and are not in line with reality. That is why they're not given the spotlight. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 03:02, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

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