Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Vaccine Inserts

One of the most commonly cited reasons for not vaccinating is the side effects read in the vaccine inserts. But, if you are only reading the vaccine inserts and assuming that they cite what vaccines cause, you are misreading them.

Vaccine inserts have specific language about causality because they are saying that just because XYZ happened during the trial does not mean it was caused by the vaccines.

Here is what Pediarix states: "This list includes serious adverse events or events which have a suspected causal connection to components of Pediarix. Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to vaccine exposure." Which does not mean that XYZ is caused by the vaccine and we have no clue how common it is. It is saying that the data in this insert is not going to tell you about vaccine safety, you have to look further in the research literature.


And they all say pretty much the same thing. So, you need to look further, into safety studies, to find out what is really going on and how the data is interpreted. And then, you find out, for example, that autism is just as prevalent in the unvaxed as vaxed, that SIDS death rates are lower in vaxed kids, and so on.

Vaccine inserts tell you everything that occurred during a vaccine trial, without regard to causation.  They are not implying the vaccines caused anything and should never be read as such. If you are only reading vaccine inserts for information on vaccines, you are most definitely not well informed or educated.


http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/package_inserts.htm