Why Do Pediatricians Deny The Obvious?

April 12, 2011 By Vaccine Choice Canada


By Judy Converse, MPH, RD

It’s 2006, and for the first time in history, U.S. children are sicker than the generation before them.

They’re not just a little worse off, they are precipitously worse off physically, emotionally, educationally and developmentally. The statistics have been repeated so often, they are almost boring. Obesity affects nearly a fifth of children, triple the prevalence in 1980. (1,2) Juvenile diabetes is up 104 percent since 1980. (3,4) Autism, once regarded as having a purely genetic etiology, increased more than a thousandfold in less than a generation. (5,6) The incidence of asthma is up nearly 75 percent. (7,8) Life-threatening food allergies doubled in the past decade. (9) The prevalence of allergies increased nearly sixfold. (9) Almost one in 10 children — between four and five million kids — have been diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder. (10) Nutrient deficiencies, not seen for decades in U.S. children, are prevalent again, or still persisting. (11-14)

Much of this happens more often to boys than girls, between whom gaps have widened steadily since 1990: Boys are 47 percent more likely to have learning and developmental disabilities than girls, 60 percent more likely to have repeated a grade, twice as at risk for autism, and 200 percent more likely to commit suicide. (15) They may also have poor vitamin A status more often than girls, (16), which increases risk of infection and life-threatening complications like pneumonia. (17)

What happened? Many have argued that the increasingly aggressive vaccination schedule is partly to blame. (18-23) In the 1980s, more vaccines were given earlier in infancy, as were more multivalent doses, most of which contained mercury. In the 1990s, genetically recombined vaccines came into use for the first time, and were used universally on day-old infants, who had never before been vaccinated with anything. Indeed, children are currently advised to get 54 vaccine doses by age 12 — a circumstance unprecedented in human history, and one that coincides neatly with the escalation in child health problems. If true, by vaccinating so zealously, rather than making children healthier, as school districts, federal health programs, corporate health infrastructures, and pediatricians insist, we have traded mostly benign or treatable childhood illnesses for incurable, lifelong, extremely costly disability and disease. It means that current vaccine policy and practice create more morbidity and mortality than they prevent in U.S. children.

Compelling evidence to support this has been much discussed on this site, and dutifully brought to the attention of vaccine policy authors: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Even governing public health bodies in the U.K. have now heard the dissenting voice of Peter Fletcher, MD, former chief scientific officer at Britain’s Department of Health. He recently chastised his peers for turning a blind eye to the avalanche of published science and anecdotal evidence showing that MMR vaccine can cause inflammatory bowel disease and autism. (24) Efforts to refute these concerns (25) were dubiously funded by vaccine makers and had fatal design flaws that made autism incidence vanish in the data set. (26) This rebuttal was never widely read by pediatricians, who continue to believe MMR, and all other vaccines, are not only safe but essential.

With our children’s very lives at stake, why do parents and governments remain loyal to the medical culture that may have led them to this? And as the ship sinks beneath their feet, how do pediatric providers manage to deny the obvious: Many children in their highly vaccinated practices are sick a lot, don’t develop normally, can’t sleep, can’t t

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