My father had polio because he was too old (12) to receive the vaccine in the year it was introduced. I had a near miss with pertussis that left a friend with lung damage in Bolivia due to my having been vaccinated prior to the trip. I'm not anti-vaccine. . I've read the popular correlative work extensively. I've read the scientific studies to whatever extent I can get my hands on them. I don't have access to the fancy databases and the papers aren't easy to find. The fact that not one single paper exists that calls the current vaccination schedule into question is some cause for concern. is there really 100% consensus on this? Hard to find that kind of consensus anywhere in science, never mind "medical science". . I'm fully aware of the penguins problem. . Then I had a child. And that's when things change a bit because it's no longer your body that's at risk when you make a mistake. And things get complicated because the doctors and nurses don't know anything about the vaccines. I grew up in a mainstream medical family of doctors and nurses. When I shared with them the details of the vaccine substrates and the schedule in 2018, they were dumbfounded. I literally had to show them the CDC website because they didn't believe me that there are 72 shots by age 6, and some still contain mercury (thimerosal). . . gato- In trying to hold back the onslaught of dipshits who can't handle a good hard look at the data that contradicts their emotionally held beliefs, please don't disregard the many factors in play when making decisions about vaccines. And please don't mock people like "marin mommies". You only need to know one vaccine injured child to inject doubt into any hard analysis like yours. And that kind of mocking makes people (even like me) want to dismiss your work. I am sorry about the blood-sucking dipshits though. . Considerations & Questions: . 1. At the end of the day, this isn't solely a data-driven academic question of whether the vaccines work or not. It's a question of whether you're going to administer them to your children. For 99.9% of parents, vaccines are not an a la carte menu. It's an all or nothing decision. And, as you said, you wouldn't do gardasil or flu. My guess is if you look hard at Hep B and rotavirus you wouldn't recommend those either. So, as a parent which way do you go? All or nothing? . 2. Your analysis doesn't look at the timing and administration of vaccines. And nor does the "science". None of it even considers age, weight, race, sex, or allergies when considering whether to administer a vaccine. There is no other medication or procedure that I know of in mainstream medicine that doesn't consider all of those factors. Given that vaccines are deliberate perturbations of the immune system to create immune responses, would we be better off administering them when children are older with more developed immune systems? Would we be better off administering them one at a time? Can a 6 month old's immune system handle 5 artificially introduced pathogens simultaneously? Should it? It all reeks of convenience and money, and risks-be-damned because none of us are liable — not the doctors, not the hospitals, not the pharma industry, and not the bureaucrats pushing the schedule. You can't find a more caveat emptor situation. There's no pulling that shot out once it goes in. . 3. After the past two years of flagrant lies, deception and conflicts of interest, you seem to trust all the papers on vaccines that precede covid. That's a little hard to swallow even though I don't dispute your analysis on MMR. Have you read about Paul Offit? And have you seen what they've done to completely reasonable MDs that don't toe the line such as Bob Sears? Do you know what the process is like to get compensated from the VICP? Are you comfortable reconciling the continued blanket immunity for all vaccines, with the fact that the MMR is safe according to your analysis? From what I've seen, the entire industry is shady and always has been. Full stop. But I'm still not anti-vax. However, most reasonable people with less time to read or a less analytical mindset, would be. . 4. Mumps and rubella have very small risk profiles, primarily infertility in males who contract mumps during their teen years, and potential birth defects in a pregnant mother who contracts rubella. Most recent mumps outbreaks have occurred in fully vaccinated college students because their immunity has worn off. So... what was the point of immunizing them at age 1? . 5. Are there not simpler, less risky treatments for measles such as high doses of vitamin A? . 6. I know the autism stuff has been debunked a 1000 times over, but every time it is, the debunker ends up with the "penguins cause autism" problem. In your case it was "alien mind rays". Maybe it's mothers on SSRI's, maybe it's the dreaded chemtrails (that's a joke), but be the scientist and detective you are here. If you don't dispute that autism rates are up as much as they are, propose some meaningful cause and mechanism. Because when you hand wave it away, you leave people like me unconvinced. The anecdotal evidence for a connection between MMR and autism is strong enough that it can't be hand-waved away, even if it's not the only cause. I know a lot of unvaccinated kids who are, as people elsewhere in the comments have described, bright eyed, engaged, healthy, vibrant little people, and I know a couple of apparently vaccine injured children who have lost so, so much. It's devastating every time I think about it. . . . Anyway... I truly love your work and your sense of humor. And I'd be a paid subscriber if you took something other than Apple Pay. And if you ever come to the westside (Isabela/Aguadilla), we would happily have you over for dinner.

(haha, started writing this at 50 comments, now it's 273. just read through again to make sure I'm not repeating too much of what someone else said. glad to see not many dipshits this time)