Robert J. Rowen, MD [medical doctor]

March 3, 2010   

Did you have the mumps when you were a child? If so, it's one of the best ways to avoid the mumps now that you're older. If you didn't have the mumps, you could be at serious risk for contracting the childhood disease - even if you've had the vaccine.As you may know, I've decried vaccines for decades. Why? They're toxic (they inject poisonous additives into you), they deny children their needed usual infections to develop a robust immune system, and now there's a third reason. Vaccines may not last a lifetime. And if they don't, you could contract the disease as an adult. Think it won't happen? Think again.

I am a physician in Southern California, board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. I am currently specializing in biomedicine of autism from both personal interest and sheer demand by ever-increasing numbers of parents seeking help for their children with this diagnosis. I was disturbed by the report released Monday and published in the LA Times April 23 by IOM.  Though I agree that long-term peer reviewed studies do not yet prove the relationship between the MMR and autism, I believe the report was misleading to the general public and especially to parents or parents-to-be. There is overwhelming clinical evidence by those of us out in the fields dealing with rapidly increasing numbers of autistic children that vaccine safety needs a great deal more investigation.