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Robert W. Sears, FAAP — known as Dr. Bob — is an American pediatrician from Capistrano Beach, California, noted for his unorthodox views on childhood vaccination.〔 His best-selling book, ''The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for your Child'' (2007), proposes two alternative vaccination schedules that depart from accepted medical recommendations. His proposals have enjoyed celebrity endorsement, but are not supported by medical evidence and have contributed to dangerous under-vaccination in the national child population.〔 In spite of his denial that he is "anti-vaccine",〔 he is characterized as an anti-vaccine doctor〔〔〔 and a vaccine delayer.〔〔 He does acknowledge that vaccines work.〔 == Views on vaccines == Sears is well-known for his views on vaccine scheduling. He recommends that parents avoid or delay vaccinating their children, counter to the consensus recommendations of medical bodies, and his book recommends that parents follow his two alternative vaccine schedules, rather than that of the American Academy of Pediatrics. His proposals are popular with parents who are influenced by anti-vaccine propaganda to seek a "compromise" between embracing, or avoiding, vaccination. This has contributed to under-vaccination in the US child population, putting public health at risk. Sears has written about vaccines and autism for the ''The Huffington Post'', stating, "back in the 1990s, the party line within the medical community was that vaccines do not cause severe reactions...So the party line has changed to the opinion that such severe reactions are so rare that the general population doesn't (and shouldn't) need to worry about them." In 2014, Sears said that he thinks "the disease danger is low enough where I think you can safely raise an unvaccinated child in today's society." Although he is characterized as an anti-vaccine doctor〔〔〔 and a vaccine delayer,〔〔 he does admit that vaccines work: "Chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, all these diseases that we no longer see very much of anymore, I do say that the vaccines are responsible for getting rid of these." Sears is against mandatory vaccination. Sears has encouraged those parents who choose not to vaccinate their children to not tell others of their decision. He writes, "I also warn them not to share their fears with their neighbors, because if too many people avoid the MMR, we'll likely see the diseases increase significantly."〔 He thus encourages "free riding" on the herd immunity created by others. His position has been criticized: "Such free-riding is immoral...because it demonstrates a willingness to make unfair use of the contributions others have made to social cooperation." Sears' activism includes open opposition to California's Senate Bill SB277, a bill which proposes limits on non-medical vaccine exemptions. He also invoked Godwin's law by comparing anti-vaxxers to Nazi-persecuted Jews. A fellow pediatrician considered the comparison "disgraceful": : "To compare the plight of the Jews under Hitler to that of those who willingly forego a preventive treatment that safeguards not only the health of their children, but the community as a whole is to lose all moral grounding. It is to purloin the most appalling suffering of the 20th century’s greatest victims, and assign it to those whose choices make not only themselves but their neighbors less safe. It is repulsive.... Dr. Bob Sears should be ashamed of himself." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Sears (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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