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I'm Jeffrey Kluger, editor at large, for TIME magazine and 

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I'm here to argue the hard truth that vaccines are safe, 

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effective, and save lives, full stop. [ MUSIC ] 

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There are people who disagree with those facts, who 

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believe that vaccines are unsafe. Unnecessary and that 

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their dangers are being covered up by a conspiracy of 

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silence between the pharmaceutical industry and the 

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government. Non of these, not a syllable 

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of it is true, here is why. First of all, it 

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bears repeating. Vaccines do not cause autism. 

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They never have, they never will. That initial misconception 

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was traced to a fraudulent 1998 study 

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by British doctor Andrew Wakefield. The study as later 

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retracted and Wakefield was stripped of his license to 

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practice medicine in the UK. It is true that autism 

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rates have risen in recent decades, but that's not because 

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more children are developing the condition It's simply 

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because we're diagnosing it better, more sensitively 

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and more liberally. vaccines like all drugs 

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have potential side effects. And as with all drugs, nobody is 

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hiding those side effects. The centers for disease control 

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lists all possible side effects of all possible vaccines 

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readily on it's web site. Most of those side effects are minor. 

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The few that aren't are so rare that it's not even possible 

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to link them conclusively to the vaccines. One 

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other thing no one's hiding are the ingredients in vaccines. 

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All of the package inserts for all vaccines are also 

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readily available online. If you read the packaging search 

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you will see that yes vaccines are stuffed with chemicals. 

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All medications are stuffed with chemicals all foods are 

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made of chemicals. You and I are made of chemicals. 

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Chemicals are essential for life. They do not have to 

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be bad. If generations of medical history have taught us 

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anything, it's that vaccinating children does not lead 

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to illness and death. It's not vaccinating children 

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that does that. Parents who opt out of vaccines do 

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it out of love. Do it because they think that's 

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the best way to protect their children. But that protection 

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comes from vaccinating, not from opting out of 

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vaccines. [ MUSIC ]