How instrumental has the Dr Wakefield story been in your choice whether to vaccinate your children? - Page 2

[PlayaMama]

Originally Posted by grisandole

I was familiar with the study but it played no real role in my decision as the vax=autism was not really what concerned me about vax at all.

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same for me. it seems like everyone that thinks vaxes are okay can tell me everything wrong with the wakefield study but has no rebuttals to quite a few of the other issues i've found in my research. and honestly, though autism is concerning to me, i'm not quite sure that just the mmr vax is the cause.

[ShadowMoon]

I was unfamiliar of his work in general. I am cautious about vaccines just as I am cautious about anything foreign that enters my, or my family's, bodies.

[claddaghmom]

Originally Posted by ema-adama

I am trying to understand just what role Dr Wakefield and his work have played in parents making vaccination decision.

None for me personally. But I have an anectdotal experience where his general theory of GI inflammation healed an "autistic" boy. I didn't know much about him, but found his ideas to be interesting. My mom passed his paperwork on to someone we know just for "food for thought" well she came crying to my mom several months later b/c her friend had changed the boy's diet, run some tests and other stuff I'm not sure of (I was a teen at the time) and the boy's "autism" symptoms diminished.

[knowerofnada]

Absolutely no role whatsoever.

[ema-adama]

Originally Posted by PlayaMama

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same for me. it seems like everyone that thinks vaxes are okay can tell me everything wrong with the wakefield study but has no rebuttals to quite a few of the other issues i've found in my research. and honestly, though autism is concerning to me, i'm not quite sure that just the mmr vax is the cause.

This seems to be my impression in general. I have the feeling that for many parents who are concerned about vax, the Wakefield study published in the Lancet and the subsequent fury around it, have very little to do with personal decisions made. I get the feeling that very hardlined provax (for lack of a better term) people somehow got the wronge end of the stick and think that this one study is the crux of the problem when parents choose not to vaccinate their children.
Shooting down Dr Wakefield isn't going to curb any questioning of vaccination. It's just not going to work like that. Not in a society where people have a choice. The issues are broader than that and much more difficult to give honest answers for..... maybe I'll draw up another poll

[Deborah]

I think this article covers some of the range of parental concerns and how off target the responses can get. I think a big part of the problem is the feeling parents get that no one is listening to the questions they are actually asking.

[Marnica]

It didn't play a role for me at all.

[Mary-Beth]

I was vaguely familiar with his work and it didn't have an influence on my choices in regards to vaccines.
I couldn't really vote as none of the choices seemed to fit.

Familiar with his work and very concerned about vaccines prior to reading anything about Wakefield...my mind was already made up before he did any of his studies.