Doctors also aren't taught nutrition in medical school, yet they and the AMA regularly dispense medical advice about nutrition to patients and consumers too.

So, anyone ever actually READ the product insert information that comes with the vaccine, or the release form they make you sign when you allow them to vaccinate your child?

I'm all for legitimate, quality information about medical issues. But that hasn't been forthcoming in the area of vaccines. The government is pro-vaccine and immunization. The efficacy of vaccines is largely being assumed by the medical community, because there isn't any long term research that has been done to prove their assertions that the risks are outweighed by the benefits.

Studies to monitor reactions to new vaccines are very short-term, sometimes lasting only weeks after vaccination. And then it's up to doctors to report reactions to the FDA, which they do, of course, but this is voluntary and assumes physicians can actually make the connection between an illness and a vaccine.

Each year, the FDA handles about 12,000 vaccine-related reports, but readily admits that this represents only a fraction of actual side effects.

One of my own children had an adverse reaction to the 1st Hib vaccine that was put on the market, and pulled less than 30 days after it was administered to my doctor. Having always been very skeptical about new drugs, I had grilled the pediatrician about this vaccine. He INSISTED there had been no vaccine-related reports on that vaccine.

He lied. He also refused, when I brought my child back in within 48 hours of the immunization, to file a vaccine-related report on my child's reaction, saying there was no proof her reaction was from the vaccine, and she had probably already been sick at the time she was vaccinated and just wasn't showing any symptoms.

We filed complaints against him with our state's attorney general and our medical practices board. He was fined by the state, and disciplined and fined by the board.

And like I said, the vaccine was pulled from the market less than a month later, for safety and efficacy reasons.

In 1986, the first legislation ever passed to protect consumers from the risks and dangers of vaccination was passed: the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. Now, if the vaccines are so safe, why was this national legislation required, hmmmmmm?

Here is a link to the US Dept of Health & Human Services web page table on each vaccine.

And your tremendously helpful "legitimate" information on this subject, robomatic is...?