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Do Vaccines Cause That?! A Guide for Evaluating Vaccine Safety Concerns

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"Do Vaccines Cause That?!" provides lucid and cogent explanations of what vaccines are and what they do, and about why so much public misinformation and mistrust has arisen over them. The book is commonsensical in tone and is clearly addressed to parents concerned about doing the best thing for their children. It's written in "reader-friendly" language and it doesn't talk down to parents. The authors acknowledge parental worries and do a great public service by compiling so much information about vaccines into one book. If you don't agree with the authors, it's even more important that you read it, because "Do Vaccines Cause That?!" provides thoughtful answers and explanations about vaccines and what they cause and don't (asthma, multiple sclerosis, encephalopathy, AIDS, and more are addressed), and sets forth its arguments calmly, and compellingly.

Kristina Chew, Ph.D.
autismvox.com

This is a great book for parents who have thoughtful questions about vaccine safety that are more complicated than the typical doctors visit will allow. The authors explain the science in clear, concise terms that any mom or dad can understand.Do Vaccines Cause That?! A Guide for Evaluating Vaccine Safety Concerns

This book does an excellent job of explaining how causation is shown or disproven through medical research. After doing that it takes you through a comprehensive review of what is known about risks of vaccines. It also shows how effective vaccines have been in reducing multiple life threatening illnesses. If are thinking of not vaccinating your kids, this will make you think twice.

This book is very current and gets to the point on all the various things that parents worry about with respect to vaccines. Well written and very useful!

Very well digested evidence (truth) about this topic. If you want answers that are reliable and make your own conlcusions you should read this book. The authors put everything that is out there on vaccine safety in simple terms, easy to understand.

This book is a level-headed review written by someone with the credentials to authoritatively examine the use of vaccines in the United States. With all the charlatans and conspiracy theorists out there (go look at the list of books reviewed by people who gave this zero or one stars), this book is a good source for physicians and parents alike. He explores the morbidity and mortality of vaccine preventable disease, the process for vaccine development and approval, and the common myths and antivaccine arguments that circulate in our society.

I would strongly recommend this good read to any physician (especially pediatricians) as well as any parent who is wary about vaccines. If you or your pediatrician oppose the current vaccine schedule, Dr. Myers and Mr. Pineda offer a well-researched discussion with facts you need to know. Instead of balking at expert opinion and foregoing vaccination because of a perceived conflict of interest, you owe it to yourself, your children, and the herd to first reseach these important questions.

As a parent of two boys I had many questions about vaccines. I was confused by all of the alternate points of view on the safety of vaccines. This book helped clarify ALL of my questions and makes me feel confident in the choices I make to vaccinate my kids on time!

Excellent review regarding this very controversial subject. It shows well-documented evidence that vaccines do not cause autism and all the other illnesses fueling the flames on Oprah. A must read for people who approach this subject honestly.

Buy this because it it is good science from an appropriate source.
The science provided is not biased by commercial or political interests and individual subjectivity.
Unfortunately there are plently other books and individuals who present otherwise. I am thankful this book is available to better inform the public.

This is an excellent resource to anyone trying to cut past all the myth and misunderstanding regarding vaccination. I use this book as a public health professional and clinical educator and provide copies to the student nurses, pharmacists, and physicians that I teach.

I find this book to be objective and based on actual evidence, unlike many of the other vaccine-topic books or websites you'll find around. It is especially useful for responding to the more common myths such as MMR-autism and provides an incredible amount of citations to back up the answers. By citations I mean actual scientific studies from peer-reviewed medical journals from across the world. This resource drills down to the basis of these myths and provides ample resources for the reader to do a lit review, pull relevant studies, and form their own opinion.

A great resource for anyone looking to get away from the crap out there from Jenny McCarthy, Dr. Sears, Sanjay Gupta, and all the other chaff. Rather than taking answers to the absolute, the author states a common myth or misunderstanding then gives a layperson response to that claim before going further in-depth on the scientific basis for the response and lists hundreds of studies related to that particular claim.

The writing can get a bit technical/clinical, but so can the concept of vaccination and immunology. I highly recommend this to any questioning parents who are being bombarded with the various anti-vaccine folks.... especially if that parent is trying to learn more about vaccines to form their own opinion.