Tara Haelle

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Tara Susan Haelle
Born (1978-01-20) January 20, 1978 (age 46)
Alameda County, California, U.S.
Occupation Photojournalist, educator, author
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Texas at Austin (BA, MA)
Website
tarahaelle.net

Tara Susan Haelle, known professionally as Tara Haelle, (born January 20, 1978) is an American photojournalist, educator, author, and science writer. [1] Haelle, along with co-author Emily Willingham, published The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, which examines several child raising controversies. [2] She examined the history and science of vaccines in a 2018 book entitled Vaccination investigation. [3] In addition, Haelle has written several children's educational books, including Edible Sunlight, [4] and Seasons, Tides, and Lunar Phases. [5]

Contents

Biography

Tara Haelle was born in Alameda County, California in 1978. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts in photojournalism, also from the University of Texas. [6] She has also written four articles for Scientific American. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Haelle and Willingham's book, Informed Parent has received generally positive reviews from various book reviewers. [11] [12] [13] [14] According to noted vaccine researcher, Dr. Paul Offit, "In The Informed Parent, journalists Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham manage to answer everything a parent could possibly be worried about during pregnancy, birth, infancy, and toddlerhood. What makes this book different from every other book on this subject (and there are many) is that the authors take on not only the science of what concerns us, but encourage us to think along with them—giving us the tools to answer other questions in the future. It was like reading the answer sheet before the test." [15]

Haelle co-authored a paper that examined the effects of images in vaccine newspaper and magazine articles. It found that one in eight articles had negative images of vaccines. [16]

Blogs

She is a writer at Forbes.com, [17] Everyday Health, [18] and numerous other websites. [1] Haelle blogs about science, child rearing, childbirth, and vaccines at Forbes [17] and Red Wine and Applesauce. [19] Much of her writing is about vaccine controversies, [20] usually examining and reviewing published articles about various vaccines. She has criticized noted anti-vaccination activist Dr. Bob Sears [21] [22] [23] [24] and critiqued the controversial documentary Vaxxed. [25]

Publications

Related Research Articles

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Wakefield</span> Discredited British former doctor (born 1956)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Autism Speaks</span> American advocacy organization

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Robert William Sears, known as Dr. Bob, is an American pediatrician from Capistrano Beach, California, noted for his unorthodox and dangerous views on childhood vaccination. While Sears acknowledges the efficacy of vaccines—for instance, he supports the claim that Chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, polio, diphtheria have all disappeared because of vaccines—he has proposed 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. While he denies being anti-vaccine, Sears has been described by many as anti-vaccine and as a vaccine delayer.

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In the United States, an alternative vaccination schedule is a vaccination schedule differing from the schedule endorsed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). These schedules may be either written or ad hoc, and have not been tested for their safety or efficacy. Proponents of such schedules aim to reduce the risk of adverse effects they believe to be caused by vaccine components, such as "immune system overload" that is argued to be caused by exposure to multiple antigens. Parents who adopt these schedules tend to do so because they are concerned about the potential risks of vaccination, rather than because they are unaware of the significance of vaccination's benefits. Delayed vaccination schedules have been shown to lead to an increase in breakthrough infections without any benefit in lower side effect profiles.

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The Informed Parent is a parenting book written by Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham and published by the Penguin Group imprint Perigee Books on April 5, 2016.

References

  1. 1 2 "Tara Haelle | ScienceWriters" . Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  2. ↑ Tara Haelle; Emily J Willingham (2016). The informed parent : a science-based resource for your child's first four years. New York, NY: TarcherPerigee. ISBN   9780399171062.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Haelle, Tara (2018). Vaccination investigation : the history and science of vaccines. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN   978-1-5124-2530-7. OCLC   972640214.
  4. ↑ Haelle, Tara (2016). Edible sunlight. Vero BEach, Florida: Rourke Educational Media. ISBN   978-1681914411.
  5. ↑ Haelle, Tara (2016). Seasons, tides, and lunar phases. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Educational Media. ISBN   9781681914374.
  6. ↑ "Amazon.com: Tara Haelle: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle, Amazon.com: Books". Amazon. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  7. ↑ Haelle T (2015). "Transfusion Solution". Sci. Am. 313 (1): 20. Bibcode:2015SciAm.313a..20H. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0715-20. PMID   26204705.
  8. ↑ Haelle T (2014). "When good proteins go bad". Sci. Am. 311 (4): 19–20. Bibcode:2014SciAm.311d..19H. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1014-19. PMID   25314857.
  9. ↑ Haelle T (2014). "The face behind the skull". Sci. Am. 310 (6): 15. Bibcode:2014SciAm.310f..15H. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0614-15. PMID   25004562.
  10. ↑ Haelle T (2014). "Coughing up clues". Sci. Am. 310 (2): 13. Bibcode:2014SciAm.310b..13H. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0214-13. PMID   24640324.
  11. ↑ Macintosh J. Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, by Tara Haelle | Booklist Online . Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  12. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years by Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham" . Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  13. ↑ Richler J. "Book Review: The Informed Parent | Brain, Child Magazine" . Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  14. ↑ Dell’Antonia, Kj (2016-04-15). "From Sleep to Sushi: Guidance for Confused Parents". Well. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  15. ↑ Haelle, Tara; Willingham, Emily (2016). The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years: Tara Haelle, Emily Willingham PhD.: 9780399171062: Amazon.com: Books. Penguin Publishing. ISBN   978-0399171062.
  16. ↑ Wu AG, Shah AS, Haelle TS, Lunos SA, Pitt MB (2018). "Choosing the perfect shot – The loaded narrative of imagery in online news coverage of vaccines". PLOS ONE. 13 (6): e0199870. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1399870W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199870 . PMC   6021096 . PMID   29949630.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. 1 2 "Tara Haelle". Forbes . Retrieved 2016-05-07.
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  19. ↑ "About « Red Wine & Apple Sauce" . Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  20. ↑ "Measles cases are spreading, despite high vaccination rates. What's going on?". Washington Post. 2014-06-23. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  21. ↑ Haelle, Tara (June 18, 2015). California Doctor Invokes Holocaust Analogy, Compares Non-Vaccinating Parents To Persecuted Jews . Retrieved 2016-05-06.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  22. ↑ Haelle, Tara (2018-07-01). "Pediatrician Bob Sears Punished For Questionable Vaccine Exemption". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  23. ↑ Haelle, Tara (2016-09-11). "Dr. Bob Sears Could Lose License For Medical Negligence – Not Vaccine Choice". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  24. ↑ Haelle, Tara (2015-02-03). "Sears and Gordon: Should Misleading Vaccine Advice Have Professional Consequences?". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  25. ↑ Haelle, Tara (March 25, 2016). "Robert DeNiro Just Broke My Heart". Forbes . Retrieved 2016-05-06.
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