Posted on 03/21/2019 10:46:24 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A significant new study out of Denmark last week confirmed once again that there is no evidence the MMR (mumps, measles, rubella) vaccine causes autism. In fact, just the opposite seems to be the case: children who received the shot were seven per cent less likely to develop autism than those who did not.
If the results of that study don’t do anything to slow the metastasizing of anti-vaccine sentiment, including in North America, you might find an explanation in last week’s other big news event: the opening of the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, which began as a music festival for independent artists but has evolved into a massive film/tech/lifestyle/trade-show gathering of the hipster clans.
This year’s version has a Wellness Expo component, with 171 participating brands. Events include conversations with the founder of Caulipower (makers of a gluten-free, cauliflower-crust pizza) and a speech by the CEO of a company that sells, among other things, a chromium-infused “thermogenic elixir” at a price of $65 for a case of six 473ml bottles. And of course Gwyneth Paltrow was there, launching a Goop pop-up store and having a fireside chat with Poppy Harlow of CNN.
The connection might not be obvious, but the surging popularity of the “wellness” movement is just part of a wide and deep strain of anti-science flakery in our culture that implicates almost all of us on one way or another. If we want to understand why we have so much trouble with vaccine denialism, it might be worth starting by admitting that we’re all part of the problem.
It is impossible to overstate the impact of public vaccination programs. In an era that saw enormous advances on a number of fronts, mass immunization was probably the single greatest public health initiative of the 20th century.
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Polio is a very bad disease and the problem of polio should be solved to the greatest extent possible. Who would argue against this?
But the question of whether the government or the medical establishment can be trusted in a general sense is a separate and different question.
Vaccination in America is older than both our government and the medical establishment. 1777 for George Washington’s army to put an end to the smallpox that ravaged his army.
If you think that today’s medics are lying to you about the efficacy of vaccination then don’t get the shots.
There’s no guarantee that vaccination protects each individual. Vaccination largely works on herd immunity, by breaking the chain of transmission often enough to keep most people from being exposed in the first place. But the larger the number who opt out of vaccination the less that herd immunity works.
Of course we used to have a freeper here who was a retired CDC scientist, and she had a pessimistic view about our future no matter what we try to do to prevent killer outbreaks. The flu can recombine and mutate faster than we can keep up, and in her studied opinion we will get hit with a hybrid flu that will kill the majority of mankind.
The CDC traffics in fear. Sounds like you’ve become, perhaps without knowing it, a part of the CDC problem.
ad hominem is never a convincing argument, but then that may be all that you have.
Then stop trying to scare everyone.
“in her studied opinion we will get hit with a hybrid flu that will kill the majority of mankind”
It’s impossible to have a studied opinion on a pandemic that’s never happened.
This person was making a wild guess. And it has all the markings of a contrived scare tactic.
I was hospitalized in San Bernardino at the height of the AIDS scare. No one know how it was caught. Was it airborne? Frightening thought. There was an AIDS patient isolated in a wing of the hospital. Caretakers were terrified.
Never underestimate nature or the stupidity of humans.
The stupidest ones are the liars in high places.
Ask not where the stupid people are.
You’ll only get your feelings hurt.
What really irked me was government using my tax dollars
to pay for their lying to me.
Their lies will soon be splintered into a thousand pieces, and scattered into the wind.
Viruses mutate because they because they become resistant to the vaccines.
It’s happening with whooping cough.
Those diseases were almost gone in the u.s. before vaccines were ever introduced. Just an FYI.
I mean you’re telling me my 3 month old needs to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease?
And can someone justify ingesting aborted fetal tissue for ANY reason?
It’s disgusting to see people lay down their pro life convictions because of a spirit of fear and doubt.
There’s no justification for creating a demand for more aborted babies. And YES it’s already happening.
You might want to check the aborted fetal ingredients.
My doc said if you are exposed to chicken pox then it serves as an extra immunity to shingles. Llike a booster shot.
Said that’s why shingles used to be an older person disease. Because everyone had kids and grandkids who got chicken pox thus boosting the shingles immunity of the parents.
But kids don’t get chicken pox anymore so adults don’t get natural boosters.
But kids get cancer. A LOT more than they did before vaccines.
We’ve traded mostly relatively mild childhood diseases for a 40% increase in leukemia.
Isn’t that grand?
Wow!
There are so so many people with the very same experiences.
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