“Well, I don't believe anything should be mandatory,” said
Dr. Wolfson in an interview on Newsmax TV’s “Steve Malzberg
Show.”
“It should be the parents’ decision, it should be their informed
consent, they should know the risks and the benefits of any
procedure they choose whether it's cardiology wise or certainly
vaccines.”
Dr. Wolfson — a board-certified cardiologist, who uses
nutrition and supplements to prevent and treat disease — has
been criticized for his stand against the mainstream medical
view on childhood vaccines.
Mainstream medical authorities and doctors say there is
indisputable scientific evidence that childhood vaccines are
safe (and do not cause autism or other serious side effects),
and are both effective and necessary to protect children from
life-threatening diseases. The World Health Organization and
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that preventable
childhood illnesses — such as measles — kill more than 140,000
kids worldwide, primarily in countries where vaccines are not
readily available.
Mainstream health experts also note that unvaccinated children,
who contract measles and other childhood disease, can put other
kids at risk — including those too young to be vaccinated
(inoculations are recommended after 12 months of age) or who
can’t receive shots because they have cancer or other health
conditions.
Malzberg noted that Dr. Wolfson has been “treated like a
leper” for taking an opposing stance and suggesting parents’
have a right to choose, when it comes to childhood vaccines.
“I'm a very good doctor, and my patients love me. I'm getting
letters from all over the world supporting me,“ Dr. Wolfson
said, in response. “Mothers of vaccine injured children just
from all over the place and in talking to them and natural
doctors, they are all hearing the same thing.”
He added that his views are motivated by concerns that vaccines
are risky.
“We'll go back to the Gardasil injection for the HPV,” he said.
“If you read the package insert, it says in there we do not know
what this does to female fertility and certainly to male
fertility. Without these kind of answers, I would hate for the
truth to come out down the road, but whoops we were wrong, it
does affect fertility and now you've got millions of young girls
that have been injected with this and we don't know."
He added that the vaccine debate is “obviously a very hot button
topic” with parents, doctors, and alternative medicine
practitioners.
“Nobody likes to see children sick, certainly me. It pains me to
think of any child suffering in the world,” he said. “I just
don't believe the answer is to inject the entire population,
trying to get rid of things like chicken pox that rarely caused
any problems and even measles, mumps, rubella.
"These are typically really just simple childhood infections that rarely cause problems and if we change the focus to a healthy environment and a healthy lifestyle, that we can really do, that's going to be the best results for our children as far as their health.”
"These are typically really just simple childhood infections that rarely cause problems and if we change the focus to a healthy environment and a healthy lifestyle, that we can really do, that's going to be the best results for our children as far as their health.”
Dr. Wolfson confirmed a CNN report that he is being
investigated by the Arizona Medical Board, but said it is
because of his vocal anti-vaccine stance.
“Oh, I know that's why. I haven't done anything else wrong, but
that is the reason and listen, when you go out like I have and
you've created this controversy, you're going to find a lot of
people that oppose you and this [is] just kind of part of it,”
he said. “I'm not minimizing it, I'm not exactly happy with the
complaint against me but this is just part of the fight that a
lot of natural doctors have to fight.
"Do you need big studies to tell you that there's a problem? There is a problem, there's science that's out there, and we've got to get more of it on our side going forward.”