Immunizations

Cpt Blue Skin michael_1968 at OZEMAIL.COM.AU
Wed Jan 8 13:38:14 EST 2003


false advertising as well. people still contract the diseases they have been
injected for..... so to say those people have been immunized is false
advertising.

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Cpt Blue Skin

----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Hart <chip at PCC.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 3:20 AM
Subject: Immunizations


> Cpt Blue Skin wrote:
> > Just correlate the stats regarding child vaccination programs vs gun
> > problems over the past thirty years in any country and you will see an
> > interesting trend.
>
>         This garbage is waaaay off topic, but I finally had to chime in.
>         If people are just going to dump bs like this to BOC-L, I'm
>         going to offer a little reality.
>
>         I work with pediatricians for a living and while it's clear that
>         the science of immunizations has improved over the years, the
>         *overwhelming majority* of anti-imms data - like the above - has
>         been debunked.  The immunization "debate" is one of the best
>         examples of "anecdote vs. data" and "emotion vs. fact" I've
>         seen.
>
>         I mean, doesn't ANYONE see the absurdity of the comment above?
>         Tying gun control issues into immunization information - what a
>         riot.  Care for me to correlate "gun problems" with Internet
>         Access or something like that?  Yeesh.
>
>         If you want a brief and limited overview of the anti-vaccine
>         crowd, head to places like:
>
> http://pages.ivillage.com/vaccinesupport
> http://www.pathguy.com/antiimmu.htm
> http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/anti-immune.htm
>
http://www.geocities.com/issues_in_immunization/fearmongers/opposition_to_im
munization.htm
>
>         ...and much more.
>
>         In a nutshell: unless your scientific "data" comes from a peer
>         reviewed source (i.e., _real_ doctors and _real_ scientists),
>         it's probably not reputable now is it?
>
>         Have you ever seen or HEARD someone with whooping cough?  Know
>         anyone with Polio?
>
>         Unless, of course, there's a Great Big Conspiracy going around
>         that we're all missing.
> --
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