Doesn’t anyone actually read the articles and follow the real story? Dr. Wakefield has NEVER said he was anti-vaccine. Further, studies and talk of possible unintended effects from vaccines - and a possible connection to autism - were going on a decade or more before RFK and Wakefield got involved.

Many Americans don’t realize that UK citizens don’t have a choice. Your child either gets the MMR shot (three-in-one) or nothing. Parents don’t have a choice of letting the child get separate mumps, measles and rubella shots, a few days or weeks apart. All..or nothing. And there’s the rub. IF you happen to have a child with a weak immune system, or a low birthweight, possible premature, child - and the doctors have been telling you and telling you that your child has a weak immune system - then your child ‘may’ not do so well on the ‘typical’ shot schedule. Spacing the shots out so the immune system doesn’t get so much as once may be a reasonable choice. That is not anti-vaccine; it is common sense. But in the UK, parents don’t get to make that decision…and thus some parents have chosen not to vaccinate at all. NOT a good choice. Dr. Wakefield does NOT support avoidance of vaccines; rather, he supports the option of separate vaccine usage.

The number of vaccines given in the first two years of life has increased dramatically over the past 20 years. Just because an adult today says, “I had the shots and I’m okay….” - well, any adult today probably didn’t get more than about 6 vaccines in infancy, compared to the 20 or 30 or 40 given to the current generation. Just how many vaccines can a human infant handle at once? 50? 100? 500? 50,000? Nobody knows…nobody has EVER studied the matter. Vaccines are all approved on a stand-alone basis; nobody ever looks at what happens when you vaccinate an infant with an untypically weak immune system over and over and over. And that’s the rub.

The UK has made Wakefield out to be a pariah rather than back down and permit single dose vaccines. THERE’s the real issue.