Vaccines

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inflammation in their intestines and developed autism between one to fourteen days of receiving the vaccine. Although Wakefield is adamant about his findings, the other scientists have admitted that they did not prove that the two variables are associated. Wakefield's argument should not be considered valid because his sample size was too small to make a conclusion because a credible sample size has at least a thousand patients
In her article "Anatomy of a Scare", Sharon Begley discussed works of other scientist trying to debunk Wakefield's claims. Biochemist Nicholas Chadwick had tried for months to see if there is any truth to Wakefield's argument, but he had come up negative every time. According to Chadwick, ""There were a few cases of false positives, but essentially all the samples tested were negative" (Begley 2). He told other scientist about his findings, but Wakefield tends to "shrug his shoulders and supports his own argument" (Begley 2). Chadwick goes on to say ...

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by science. McCarthy was asked about her scientific backup and she replied by saying that her son was all the science that she needed.
Parents who are cautious about the use of vaccines in their children need to be educated on vaccines and how they are beneficial for the child and the public. Vaccines eradicated diseases like small pox in 1979 which prevented many people from death and the eradication of polio is not a distant dream. In her article "Why Vaccines Matter", Cynthia Gorney explains the benefits of vaccines, she discusses how vaccines have dropped the death rate of measles to 134,200 and how mass vaccination has ended polio in every country except three. Vaccines are ...

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