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Dr. Paul Thomas: Why I Don’t Vaccinate Kids — and What Parents Should Know

Retired pediatrician Dr. Paul Thomas spoke with Polly Tommey about why he broke from mainstream medicine and what he says parents must know about vaccines, childhood illness and medical risk. ...

Thomas said he walked away from conventional pediatrics after witnessing repeated vaccine injuries.

He recalled seeing “four kids in a row over four years regress into severe autism after vaccines,” an experience that changed his outlook permanently. “Once I saw vaccine injury, I couldn’t unsee it,” he said.

When Thomas stopped following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, the four other pediatricians at his practice told him the decision was unethical and effectively forced him out.

He opened an integrative pediatrics practice, where the number of parents opting out of vaccines steadily increased year after year. “The percentage of parents choosing not to vaccinate at all was just growing and growing,” Thomas said.

‘As more and more kids were unvaccinated, I had fewer and fewer sick visits’

Unvaccinated children “can and do get sick,” Tommey said. Thomas agreed. But he said the illness patterns in his practice surprised him.

“What I saw in my practice in the real world was, as more and more kids were unvaccinated, I had fewer and fewer sick visits,” Thomas said.