Webinars & Videos

Paul A. Offit, MD, explains the different types of mercury and how they are processed in the human body. From the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

From the Vaccine Education Center (VEC), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Paul A. Offit discusses why aluminum is in vaccines and the safety of those small amounts.

In this CBC “Marketplace” special report, two moms go undercover with hidden cameras and visit five homeopaths in Toronto and Vancouver. They are told vaccines cause autism and that vaccine-preventable diseases are unusual and harmless. The moms are encouraged not to vaccinate their infants. (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)

There is almost no topic in health and health policy that immediately polarizes people more than the idea that vaccines cause autism. Even though the original big paper on this topic came out at the end of the last century, the anger this causes is still raw and potent. But there is a very, very large amount of research showing that vaccines and autism are unrelated.

The infamous Wakefield study kickstarted the Autism Myth, but many studies have since shown that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Find out how it all got started. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.

Ever wonder whether vaccines weaken a baby’s immune system? Dr. Lori Handy says, “The short answer is, absolutely no” and goes on to explain why.