This book is essential reading for anyone who has any interest in the issue of vaccinations. There are numerous commentaries, opinions, and statistics on the subject, but Scheibner takes you to the source: the actual data from 100 years of mainstream studies conducted on vaccinations and their effects. A Ph.D. scientist, Scheibner has written a first-rate literature review that would allow readers to judge for themselves what the data has to say about each vaccine and its surrounding issues (e.g. effectiveness, risk of disease without vaccination, side effects, and more). To top it off, the book is an engrossing and easy read. Scheibner presents not only summaries of shocking empirical evidence, but she narrates it in a broad historical context that offers insight on how vaccines persisted despite damaging data throughout their history.
Scheibner stumbled onto this field after finding a temporal correlation between the DPT vaccine and a baby breathing monitor she co-invented to help prevent SIDS. This book is a result of years of subsequent literature research she conducted to investigate the issue further. She concludes from both the literature and her own research that vaccines "represent a medical assault on the immune system," and shares with the reader the studies that convinced her--complete with information on results, sample sizes, control groups, and other details that would allow the reader to have perspective on the validity and limits of each study. References may be hard to follow, because they are listed in order of mention in each chapter, but are not footnoted numerically. However, the important thing is that they are all there.
I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone (pro or con) who wants to see published empirical evidence on vaccinations, rather than parroted opinion or threat. Scheibner has accomplished a remarkable feat in giving readers a chance to make up their own minds intelligently. I do not agree with all of Scheibner's conclusions, and you may not either. But at the end of the book, you will be able to base your agreement or disagreement on evidence, rather than on hearsay or myth. Scheibner has been accused of misrepresentation and pseudoscience. Does she sometimes make exaggerated or erroneous statements? Yes. But the value of the book lies not in her conclusions, beliefs, or statements. It lies in her summaries of pertinent data that would alert an educated reader to investigate the original articles for themselves. An thinking reader should be able to discern between belief and data. If you buy only one book on vaccinations, this should be the one.
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- Johan KangasReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2014
Great summary by an expert in the field.
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I can't recommend it highly enough.
