#ActuallyAutistic Person Speaks on Vaccines
This is hard to write. How do you write to someone who despises your very existence and yet has never met you? Someone who would…
Dear Fellow Parent (An Open Letter About Autism)
I don’t want to label you an “anti-vaxxer.” That term has so many negative associations, and there is a lot more to you than that…
Autism! Omnibus! Vaccines! Conspiracy!
Lately, I have noticed how anti-vaccine activists are using the law to shape how we are all talking about vaccines. Sometimes they file lawsuits, sometimes…
Dr. Hotez talks about Vaccines and Rachel’s Autism
Is there wiggle room about the idea that vaccines do not cause autism? Is it possible that sometimes in some particularly vulnerable children that vaccines…
Autism’s Professor Harold Hill
It's hard to talk about vaccines or autism without mentioning the sometime gastroenterologist, Andrew Wakefield. Almost everyone has at least a passing familiarity with Wakefield,…
Measles in Minnesota
Yesterday afternoon, the Minnesota Department of Health reported that 60 people (mostly children) in four counties across the state. This measles outbreak is the worst…
I Vaccinate My Kids Because I Wish My Parents Had Vaccinated Me
My name is Grace. I was raised in a cult. There are a lot of things wrong with being raised in a cult— religious brainwashing,…
Vaccines and Autism: One Doctor’s Personal Story
There has been a lot of talk since 1998 as to whether vaccines cause autism. Though I have been loath to enter this conversation, it…
How my Son Helped Me Accept Vaccines
I am a parent who did not vaccinate my children when they were young. I delivered my four children at home. I have the strongest,…
A Teen Speaks Up for Vaccines
Spreading the word about the benefits of vaccinating children is a personal crusade for my family and me. My mother lost her younger brother to…