Celebrity Shocker-Facts Are Your Friends
At first, I leaned toward keeping our kids vaccine-free. I thought the concern about vaccination made sense. There are countless reasons to distrust the pharmaceutical industry, and I didn’t want to put anything artificial or unnecessary in my child’s body. Least of all something questionable that protects from diseases that don’t even exist anywhere near us these days. Still, I felt a nagging responsibility to hear both sides of the argument (largely because I had my heart set on a “mother of the year” mug).
I decided facts were my friends. I couldn’t rely on word-of-mouth, friend-of-a-friend information. It was going to require actual research from vetted sources; I wanted the truth.
It wasn’t easy sifting through all the false and deceptive studies to find them, but now that I have, I feel compelled to share them with any of you who may be struggling with this tough choice.
Kristen Bell