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There's a lot of information available on the
Internet about vaccines, some of it based on science, and some of it very
misleading. Because anyone can put together a website, and because rumors and
misinformation can travel so fast and so far on the information superhighway,
it's important to use critical thinking skills when researching immunization
information on the Internet. Here are some resources to help you sort fact from
fiction. General resources
Vaccine Misinformation
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/immunization_issues_detail.cfv?id=52
10 Tips on Evaluating Immunization Information
on the Internet
Source: National Vaccine Program Office
www.hhs.gov/nvpo/tips.htm
Reliable Sources of Immunization Information:
Where to go to find answers!
Source: Immunization Action Coalition
www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4012.pdf
Cause or Coincidence
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/immunization_issues_detail.cfv?id=67
Causality Assessment of Adverse Events
Following Immunization
Source: Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety
www.who.int/vaccine_safety/causality/en
Ten Things You Need to Know about
Immunizations
Source: Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/10-shouldknow.htm
Shot or not? Part 3: Glossary of individuals
and groups frequently encountered in discussions of opposition to vaccines
and/or vaccine policy
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/son3-1-cp.html
Vaccinating Your Child: Questions and Answers
for the Concerned Parent
By Sharon Humiston, MD, MP, and Cynthia
Good Peachtree Publishers, 2000
Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know
By Paul Offit, MD, and Louis Bell, MD
IDG Books, 1999
Vaccines: Separating Fact from Fear
(online video)
Source: Vaccine Education Center
www.vaccineinformation.org/video/chop1.asp
Vaccine safety
Click here to visit the "Vaccine Safety" section of this website.
Click here to visit the
“Vaccines and Autism" section of this website
Click here to visit
the “Thimerosal in Vaccines” section of this website
Investigating common arguments
against vaccination
Vaccine Concerns
Authors: Paul A. Offit, MD, and Louis M. Bell, MD
Source: Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know (chapter 16, revised edition)
www.immunize.org/catg.d/4038myth.pdf
10 Vaccine Myths—Busted
Author: Beth Howard
Source: Published in Babytalk, September 2005. Reprinted with permission on the
Vaccine Education Center’s website.
www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=81553
Frequently Asked Questions
Source: Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=75743
Shot or not? Part 2: Misconceptions about
immunizations
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/son2-1-cp.html
Issues in Immunization
Includes section on "fear mongers"
Source: Lon Morgan, DC, DABCO
www.geocities.com/issues_in_immunization
Religious/ethical issues and
immunization
Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From
Aborted Human Fetuses
Clarification about the liceity of vaccinating children with vaccines prepared
using cell lines derived from aborted human fetuses
Source: Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican
www.immunize.org/concerns/vaticandocument.htm
Human Fetal Links with Some Vaccines
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/immunization_issues_detail.cfv?id=32
Catholics Consenting to Rubella Vaccine
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/laws/rubella-cathnews.htm
Vaccines and the Right of Conscience
Source: National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (www.ncbcenter.org/ncbq.asp),
Spring 2004, Vol. 4(1):53-62
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access this article in PDF format.
This article is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction is prohibited
without permission from the journal.
Vaccines, Abortion, and Moral Coherence
Author: Maher DP
Source: National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (www.ncbcenter.org/ncbq.asp),
Spring 2002, Vol. 2(1):51-67
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this article in PDF format
This article is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction is prohibited
without permission from the journal.
Vaccines Originating in Abortion
Author: Furton EJ
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this article in PDF format
This article is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction is prohibited
without permission from the journal.
Statement from Rabbi Adler Concerning the Use
of Porcine and Animal Products in Vaccines
Source: Rabbi Abraham Adler, Kashrus and Medicines Information Service, July 31,
2003
www.immunisation.nhs.uk/newsitem.php?id=15
The Judicially Prohibited and Impure Substances
in Foodstuff and Drugs
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern
Mediterranean; Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences
www.immunize.org/concerns/porcine.pdf
Alternative Medicine and the Church
Author: Janice Lyons
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/AMChur.html
Shot ... or not? Part 1: What to make of the
anti-vaccination information
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
www.cinam.net/son1-1-cp.html
Chiropractic and immunization
Chiropractors and Immunization
Author: Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.chirobase.org/06DD/chiroimmu.html
Autism--Another Topic Often Lacking Facts When
Discussed within the Chiropractic Profession
Author: Ferrance RJ
Source: Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, March 2003, Vol.
47(1):4-7
www.jcca-online.org/client/cca/JCCA.nsf/objects/Volume+47-1-2/$file/Pages04-07.pdf
Vaccinations: How About Some Facts for a
Change?
Author: Ferrance RJ
Source: Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, September 2002, Vol.
46(3):167-172
www.jcca-online.org/client/cca/JCCA.nsf/objects/Issue+46_3/$file/Pages167-172.pdf
Chiropractors and Vaccination: A Historical
Perspective
Authors: Campbell JB, Busses JW, Injeyan HS
Source: Pediatrics, April 2000, Vol. 105(4):E43
www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/105/4/e43
Description of Standard of Practice for
Immunization/Vaccination
Source: College of Chiropractors of Ontario, Canada
www.cco.on.ca/standard_of_practice_s-015.htm
Alternative medicine and
immunization
Naturopathic Opposition to Immunization
Authors: Atwood KC, Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Naturopathy/immu.html
Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake
Author: Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), National Institutes of Health
NCCAM is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Department of Health and Human Services. Their
mission is to support rigorous research on complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM), to train researchers in CAM, and to disseminate information to
the public and professionals on which CAM modalities work, which do not, and
why.
www.nccam.nih.gov
Alternative Medicine Primer
www.vet-task-force.com/Primer1.htm
The National Council Against Health Fraud
www.ncahf.org
For links to other organizations providing
scientifically-based information on vaccines, please click
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This page was reviewed on
December 18, 2007
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