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So it's "junk science" to work with a ped to personalize a vaccine schedule?  If they have decided that a particular baby won't need Hep A/B until a little later - that's "junk science".

The CDC creates the schedule to cover the lowest common denominator. If my ped knows my particular child and gives us a modified schedule, I'm going to go with that. So try not to get all hysterical about that.

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Some children have compromised immune systems for one reason or another. They need to be on a different schedule sometimes. If your child doesn't meet that criteria and your ped is working with you than they've decided the benefits of getting you vaccinated in the end merit indulging this imagined socially constructed fear. Hard to blame them but yes,  it's junk science and they're just indulging you.

It probably won't harm your child or children around you but the mentality is dangerous because it lends credence to the vote beliefs of the anti vaxx movement. [/quote]

I don't see any harm in questioning. Big gov9't has a history of getting things wrong. [/quote]

Except this isn't big government. It's worldwide scientific concensus. [/quote]

It's a worldwide scientific consensus that my newborn child will get an STD?  Okey dokey...   :)

Must be the same worldwide scientific consensus that once thought the world was flat, earth was the center of the universe, etc. "They" are always right. ;)

Good thing people continue to question. [/quote]

Its worldwide scientific concensus that vaccines are safe. You are confusing worldwide scientific concensus with popular concensus. It was scientists who realized things like a flat earth didn't make sense and required more examination. [/quote]

Yup. Good thing they questioned it. 
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I feel like you didn't understand my point. If you believe in climate change and evolution you should believe in vaccines,  which are probably the single greatest accomplishment in modem medicine (antibiotics right up there).[/quote]

Ha! I feel like you didn't understand my point. :) Which was certainly NOT that I don't believe in vaccines. Just that I don't blindly accept everything at face value. I question - which vaccines, why, when? I've done that with many important aspects of my life and my children's lives.

I think it's important for people to question and understand this - and many other things as well.

Flu shots - current thinking is now that it's best not to get them every year now, right?  It's all evolving. We are not omniscient.

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Actually that's not the current thinking on flu shots. Healthy people in the middle opting out endangers the elderly and the very young. I figured you were either being sarcastic or you didn't understand. I gave you the benefit of the doubt as I have been trying to be factual and unemotional in my responses.

Everyone should think about decisions involving their health, but what you are endorsing is looking at a mountain of scientific evidence and rejecting it due to a gut feeling you have. Or at a less extreme level, that you know how to administer this science better than people who have devoted their lives to studying this. To me, this world view seems arrogant. [/quote]

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