Lendon H. Smith, M.D.

I believed everything I learned in medical school and got good grades to prove it. The professors knew I would succeed and be a credit to the school (University of Oregon Medical School) because I was cheerful, bright, and compliant. Pediatrics as a lifetime profession made sense as my Dad was a pediatrician and I had the naive belief that if we could straighten out one generation everyone would be normal and healthy forever after. We would discourage breast feeding because it was hard to measure the ounces going into the baby. We would start solid food early so the baby would not get a milk anemia. We would be able to stop most of the bad diseases because we could get the mothers to come to the office for the babies' shots: diptheria, whooping cough, tetanus, soon followed by the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and the polio drops. The hepatitis and hemophilus influenza shots are now standard.

Marcel Kinsbourne, M.D.

Presentation to the Committee on Government Reform

August 3, 1999

The remarks that follow are based upon my training and experience as a pediatric neurologist and my familiarity with the scientific method, as well as my participation as a medical expert in proceedings that evaluate alleged vaccine injury under the terms of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.

JAY GORDON, M.D.

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Why do you advocate staggering vaccines?
I think the immune system, like every other system of the body, matures slowly, and that it can better tolerate viral infection at older ages and better tolerate one virus at a time. The other thing is that vaccines all contain other ingredients. They contain aluminum, they contain tiny bits of formalin [an aqueous solution of formaldahyde]. So I recommend waiting as long as parents are comfortable, and vaccinating very, very slowly. I also ask parents to wait at least six months before the first vaccine. I prefer to wait a year. I have patients who choose to get no vaccines at all, and I support that. I have patients who choose to get almost no vaccines at all, and I support that. I have patients who choose every vaccine except this one or that one; I support that.

Jay Gordon, MD FAAP

The best option at the present time might be to stop all vaccines if you understand and agree with the statistical risks involved with non-vaccination. This option is not acceptable for every family.

Bob Sears has written a brilliant article about the scientifically demonstrated but largely undefined risk of aluminum in shots. Brilliant! To Dr. Sears, I would argue that this could now serve as a bridge to a possible pause in vaccines until they remove residual mercury and all the aluminum. I understand that alternative schedules might be an answer for some but we're still using the same shots with the same ingredients. Dr. Sears forcefully and very intelligently states that we don't know if there is a safe level of aluminum and preservatives! Time for a temporary pause, Dr. Bob?