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Have a Shot With Your Kids

Today on Tablet, the case for vaccination

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December 26, 2012
Josie recovers from her shot in the arm.(Marjorie Ingall)
Josie recovers from her shot in the arm.(Marjorie Ingall)

Today on Tablet, Marjorie Ingall combines the Jewish and public health arguments for vaccinating your kiddies.

Look, I have several friends who don’t vaccinate. Like my neighbors, they are well-educated people. I have tried to engage with them about why they’ve chosen this path. The standard rap is that parents who skip vaccines foolishly continue to believe the fullydiscredited study that ran in the medical journal The Lancet a few years ago saying that vaccines can cause autism. But my friends don’t necessarily believe that study. They do believe that no one fully understands how vaccines work, and that the shots can mess with developing immune systems and may be at best unnecessary and at worst dangerous. It doesn’t matter that my evidence comes from peer-reviewed, controlled studies and theirs from anecdotal stories or poorly constructed studies. They do not trust the medical establishment. And that’s that.

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