Another Excerpt from Richard Moskowitz's New Book on Vaccination
Boston homeopath and family medicine doctor, Richard Moskowitz, MD, has always been an important writer in the area of health, homeopathy, and vaccination. He has
written a new book that will appear in 2017, and has been sharing a series of book excerpts with the homeopathic community. I have asked and been granted his permission to share them with you too. Enjoy!
More From Chapter 4: The Clinical Perspective.
"The other side of the equation, the larger truth that our job also includes bearing witness to, are the thousands and thousands of narratives from vaccine-injured kids and the parents, relatives, and friends who care for and about
them. These are not anti-scientific zealots wedded to a fixed ideological position, but ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down or ruined by what happened to them, their children, or their friends and loved ones.
To dismiss them on principle, without paying attention to their stories, amounts to saying that they are lying, stupid, or ignorant about what has happened to their own children. Committed relationships, unforgettable experiences,
and the common-sense reasoning involved in raising a child provide a better qualification for determining whether a vaccine has played a causal rôle in the problems that follow it than any preformed list of acceptable or proven
reactions.
In addition, even intelligent, attentive, and anxious parents can easily miss the vaccine connection when it comes to chronic, auto-immune diseases, which often require months or years to develop, and even then may not become
manifest without another booster shot or exposure to another toxic chemical.
Here follows the tale of a 12-year-old boy with renal failure, whom I know of solely from his mother's letter; but her words are so heartfelt and so congruent with my experience that I cannot imagine them to be anything but the
honest truth as she experienced it. In this instance, the causal link between the MMR and the disease that ruined her son's life is sufficiently obvious to be grasped by any 12-year-old of average intelligence. Yet 'a coincidence'
was the unanimous response of every doctor involved in his care, and they stuck to it even when two virtually identical case reports were supplied by the drug company itself.
Whether a canny strategy to defeat possible litigation, or the instinctive shielding of a cherished world-view from threat of change, this prejudice is so deeply ingrained in the medical profession as to warrant careful study in
itself. I can imagine no more powerful indictment of our present policy than its willful blindness to tragedies as transparent and heart-rending as this one."
