Anti-Vaccine?

My sister-in-law posted this on my Facebook page and then asked what I thought about it:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-antivaccination-movement-20140120,0,5576371.story#axzz2rBCXjvAw

And I told her that the diseases are far worse than the vaccines and then she said that she wishes her pediatrician didn't lecture her about vaccines.  Does that mean she doesn't vaccinated her two little boys?  I have no idea.  But if not, why?

Why would you not give your kids their best shot at life?  As far as I know, they've never had a bad reaction to a vaccine.  But, these illnesses are no joke.  They kill people.  They disable people.  They cause hospitalization and unhappiness.  They cause the infant mortality rate of other countries to be as high as they are.  They have lifelong consequences and effects.

The vaccines may have adverse effects.  May.  But probably not.  And they are getting safer every day.

New Pregnancy Study

Please don't use this study as proof that alcohol is okay.  You'll find that the women who did not drink "were the poorest educated, smoked the most, did not exercise, and watched a lot of TV."  These, in my field, are what we call confounders and are much more important to look at.
http://www.today.com/moms/new-study-shows-no-harm-moderate-drinking-pregnancy-experts-urge-2D11849699

Confounders are things that change the relationship being examined.  In this case, drinking was perhaps, less important than smoking, education, exercise, or television viewing.  To report that drinking is okay in groups that are these different is at best wrong and at worst, harmful.