> Provide evidnece that smallpox is still going around.
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>> This from a person who thinks a 96-year old article is relevent.
>
> Why would it not be relevant?
There article has nothing to do with avialble vaccines today.
> Even if to simply be educated as to the state of the science of
> vaccinations in those days or to be educated as to attitudes of those
> forcing pus vaccinations on everyone despite the poor state of the
> science at the time. And drawing direct comparisons between those
> pushing the piss-poor science of vaccinations on everyone then and
> now. There are very important similarities to be seen.
The article doesn't deal with the science vaccines today.
> Those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to make the same
> mistakes. That you feel that the history of medicine and their
> failures, and their very few successes, are irrelevant, shows just how
> short-sighted and naive you are about the world. There are many
> lessons we can learn about medicine from the history.
Not with an article out of context.
> Every thing that is new is not necessarily better or worse. Making
> assumptions either way is naive to the extreme.
I didn't make any assumptions about something being better or worse.
>> Provide evidnece that smallpox is still going around.
>
> Prove that smallpox was irradicated solely due to vaccinations.
When did I claim that is the case?
> It
> hasn't been proved, not by a long shot. You have faith that it has
> because you were taught that in school. But it was never proven.
Let's see: Smallpox vaccine causes antibodies to be formed. Those antibodies
prevent transmission of smallpox.
>> Explain why measles
>> has disappeared from areas where there is high MMR vaccine coverage
>> rates,
>
> Faith is why you believe that. Not science.
Actually, science alone. Measles vaccine causes the production of protective
antibodies. Measles is not seen in areas that are properly vaccinated.
However, areas in the developed world where there is not adequate
vaccination rates do have outbreaks, but not areas that have proper
protection.
>> but still is seen in areas where there is low coverage, including in
>> developed nations. Explain why Hib menigitis rates suddenly went down
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> Polio has dissapeared and meningitis has appeared to take its place.
> The nomencalture was changed, but not the disease.
Nice try.
Polio is a disease caused by a particular group of viruses. Those viruses do
not cause dieseae in the US and most other developed countries, because the
virus is no longer present in those countries.
Menigitis did not take the place of polio. Menigitis was there all along.
When you get a clue, please let me know. Until then, I will not waste my
time replying to your ignorant comments in this thread.
Jeff
> TC
TC - 21 Feb 2007 18:01 GMT
> <...>
>
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>
> There article has nothing to do with avialble vaccines today.
But it illustrates the mindset of those wanting to make money from it.
> > Even if to simply be educated as to the state of the science of
> > vaccinations in those days or to be educated as to attitudes of those
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>
> The article doesn't deal with the science vaccines today.
The language is the same, the intent is the same, the paternalistic
know-it-all attitude of the medical people are the same. the faith in
their state of the science pus-inoculation is the same. And the follow
up to mass vaccinations is the same. there are a lot of common threads
here.
> > Those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to make the same
> > mistakes. That you feel that the history of medicine and their
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>
> Not with an article out of context.
The context was that they were vacinnating everybody they could get
their hands on, regardless of any possibility of adverse effects or
any questions of safety and efficacy. They were mandating, by law,
universal vaccinations. That is the context. Sound familiar?
> > Every thing that is new is not necessarily better or worse. Making
> > assumptions either way is naive to the extreme.
>
> I didn't make any assumptions about something being better or worse.
You said "This from a person who thinks a 96-year old article is
relevent.".
What the f.ck is that if it is not making a blanket assumption that a
96 year old article is irrelvant and newer articles are better or that
old observations are irrelevant and new observations are better by
virtue of when they were observed. Quit trying to backpedal your way
out of that one.
> >> Provide evidnece that smallpox is still going around.
>
> > Prove that smallpox was irradicated solely due to vaccinations.
>
> When did I claim that is the case?
You implied it.
> > It
> > hasn't been proved, not by a long shot. You have faith that it has
> > because you were taught that in school. But it was never proven.
>
> Let's see: Smallpox vaccine causes antibodies to be formed. Those antibodies
> prevent transmission of smallpox.
Have you ever considered that smallpox antibodies indicate immunity,
while HIV antibodies indicate infection? Can you reconcile that little
fact?
> >> Explain why measles
> >> has disappeared from areas where there is high MMR vaccine coverage
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> vaccination rates do have outbreaks, but not areas that have proper
> protection.
Bullshit. Proof?
> >> but still is seen in areas where there is low coverage, including in
> >> developed nations. Explain why Hib menigitis rates suddenly went down
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>
> Jeff
Check the two disease side by side. Same symptoms, stated with
slightly different language. Same long-term effects too.
Did you know that when immunized people get the disease, the
vaccination is termed "unsuccessful", so they immunize again. In some
statistics a single vaccination was often counted as un-vaccinated
because it was then determined to be "unsuccessful". That fudged the
numbers pretty good. And in many cases, when a vaccinated victim
reported that they got the disease, they were not believed because
they were assumed to be immune. They weren't counted because, by
logic, they could not have gotten the disease. They were either
ignored in the stats or they were diagnosed with a different but
similar disease. And in some cases, many cases, the vaccination
determined the name of the disease. if they were vaccinated for polio
and got symptoms, they were called meningitis. it they were not
vaccinated for polio and got the symptoms, they were called polio.
Hence, vaccines always work. By definition. Not a single attempt at
mass vaccination were ever publicly seen to fail. Even Pasteur's first
vaccination of livestock for rabies that killed 1/3 of the flocks
vaccinated were declared a success. And that continues today.
TC