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Iowa Politics with Jeff Stein — Thu. Jan. 16, 2025

By Jeff Stein Jan 16, 2025 | 6:25 AM

Asking Questions

I’m not a doctor, and don’t play one on the radio. And I don’t have children or grandchildren, so I am without information on raising little ones to adulthood.

But I also believe in freely asking questions to simply get information without being labeled as pro-something or anti-something.

The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has various recommendations and schedules on its website regarding immunizations…this information was compiled showing their recommended shots not just for the first 12 months of life, but immunizations to be administered in utero, during the gestation period.

Back in 1986, the CDC recommended five immunizations—two at two months, two at four months, and one at six months.

But in 2024, the number of recommended immunizations ballooned to 32—a half dozen in utero, and 26 between two and twelve months.

At this same time, the rate of autism in this country has increased over the past twenty-five years by 317 percent.

There are some—folks who actually have degrees in medicine—who are asking if there are connections between the number of immunizations we’re jabbing into little ones these days, and all manner of outcomes (autism among them).

I don’t have any idea, but these days, as noted before, if you even dare to ask about it, you are cancelled. But shouldn’t we be able to ask questions and have them answered? Doesn’t mean the answer would be bad or sinister; perhaps the answer is logical, innocent, and appropriate.

Failure to allow questions, or to give answers, leads to distrust. And that’s the one thing that has increased even more than the numbers mentioned here.