[Fwd: [Adventures in Autism] Pamela Felice on Actually Having a Vaccine Debate]

March 26, 2008

A good idea from another

blogger. Get Oprah to hold an actual debate:

I got an email today from Pamela at The

Educated Parent who proposes that Oprah actually hold a real live

vaccine debate to address the vaccine debate.

Because that is one thing that is missing from this debate, the experts

on both sides actually getting in the same room and debating one

another.

From her email:

With autism awareness month approaching in April and in

light of the recent court ruling regarding Hannah Polling's vaccine

related autism, I thought it might be interesting for Oprah to host a

debate on the topic of vaccine safety.

Some suggested guests might include; Kirby, author of Evidence of

Harm, Dr. Sears, Author of The Vaccine Book , Dr. Boyd Haley,

head of the Chemistry Dept at Kentucky State University, Dr. Jerry

Kertzinel, the DAN! Dr. treating McCarthy's son and Barbbra Lowe

Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Ctr. on the Critic side.

Possible panelists who support the current vaccine program might

include, Dr. Offit, Dr. Gerberding, Director of the CDC, a

representative of the American

Academy of Pediatrics and/or a representative of Every Child By Two.

I bet I can guess which side of that panel would decline the

invitation. If they do all agree...it would certainly make for great

television.

Pamela is right on two counts. 1. This would be really interesting and

2. There is no way in hell Gerberding et. al. would ever do it. They

have everything to loose and nothing to gain.

Right now the only thing that is working to their advantage any more is

marginalizing advocates of the vaccine/autism link. Debating them would

not only give them credibility, they would expose their own lie that

there is no evidence to support the relationship between vaccines and

autism.

The only way they can with this battle is by getting people to ignore

it and go back to sleep.

But I think that the invitation should be extended none the less.

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Posted By Ginger to Adventures

in Autism at 3/25/2008 07:18:00 PM

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