Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

As a pediatrician I remain deeply disgusted and disturbed with the harm Dr. Robert Sears has done to vaccination rates in the US in the last 10 years. This year will be the worst for the US for whooping cough since 1955 and the worst for measles in 20 years. Thanks a lot, Dr. Sears! A recent article in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics (published by the American Academy of Pediatrics) showed that the largest clusters of whooping cough cases in California (during the 2010 California whooping cough outbreak that killed 10 newborns too young to be able to be vaccinated) were in the areas with the highest numbers of parents electively not vaccinating their children (search engine this if you don't believe me). Why don't these parents vaccinate? Well, you can thank Dr. Sears and his books for that because he scares parents out of vaccinating with his vaccine lies and misinformation. Dr. Sears is a disgrace to pediatrics and is guilty of medical malpractice, IMHO, for his vaccine misinformation. And if you want to know just how great Dr. Robert Sears thinks he is, consider this--he won't take your medical insurance to see your child. If you want to see Dr. Bob, you must pay cash up front because he's too good to take the health insurance you work so hard to get. Remember, this book by Dr. Sears is not peer-reviewed--he wouldn't dare send it to anyone other than his editor. And remember that Dr. Bob simply made up his so-called "alternate" vaccine schedules. Despite that he has had almost a decade of promulgating his "alternate schedules", Dr. Bob apparently couldn't be bothered to test them and collect any sort of safety/efficacy data from the parents who have used them. Think about that simple fact, parents. All Dr. Sears wants is your money and his fame. He doesn't care about your child's health, for if he did he would not be an anti-vaccinator. And how do I know he truly is an anti-vaccinator? Because he is an administrator on a facebook page of a group called "Parents and Others Against Vaccination". That says it all right there. I sincerely wish Amazon would not carry or sell this book. I believe it represents a direct threat to public health. --Chris Hickie, MD, PhD