Vaccination skepticism is becoming the new public health threat

[riddlemethis]

Originally Posted by rayne

I wonder why idiots that follow Meryl Dorey are always harping on about how BigPharma's want to inject children with harmful toxins!!! but not confectionery companies that make lollies and soft drinks that can give you diabetes or McDonalds that puts on weight or cigarette companies that produce cigarette because of second hand smoke. Are these idiots just interested in vaccines or does it apply to all products manufactured by pharmaceutical companies?

Well, the answer is clearly no, because they think these diseases can just be allowed to reinstate themselves & be otherwise treated in the medical system. With drugs. :-| It's a logic blind spot in a veritable polka dotted swathe of them!

[DanDare]

Originally Posted by AUSloth

I'm afeared what might happen if the homeopaths get hold of this DHMO

Its terrifying that although the active ingredient in their "cures" is actually not present, and therefore harmless, dihydrogen monoxide is actually, really in their pills and elixirs in very high concentrations! And that is despite all the diluting that goes on!!!

[Aldaron]

What about the very real dangers of dihydrogen monoxide? It can actually kill people that inhale it! And its used in many of our cooked foods and even tea and coffee

Not to mention that it's lethal in all forms. It kills hundreds of thousands of people every year in its liquid form, can cause horrific burns in gaseous form, and has even been known to sink unsinkable ships in its solid form!

[gruber]

Pic from Stop the AVN

[rayne]

Meryl expects to be nailed to a cross for her claims?

[rayne]

I now know the taste of coffee coming out my nose, well done Mr Black.

The whole "Meryl the martyr" gimmick is getting old.

[wolty]

Originally Posted by rayne

I now know the taste of coffee coming out my nose, well done Mr Black.

The whole "Meryl the martyr" gimmick is getting old.

Yeah, be nice to think that it will go the way of the dinosaurs.

[Loki]

Originally Posted by Wolty

Yeah, be nice to think that it will go the way of the dinosaurs.

Don't hold your breath. In todays news.

Parents fight it out in tussle over child jabs

A YOUNG girl is at the centre of a bitter tug-of-war in court by her parents over whether she should be vaccinated or not.

Her father sought an order in the Federal Magistrates Court to have her immunised, but the mother argued the national vaccination schedule was "potentially harmful".

and....

Anti-vaccination group the Australian Vaccination Network has launched a fundraising appeal to help non-vaccinating parents fight the courts.

"Such proceedings could very well result in orders being made providing for the young children to receive the full spectrum of vaccines in a catch-up schedule," said AVN founder Meryl Dorey, who is seeking $50,000 to help partners fight vaccination.

[blunt]

Pardon me for bumping up this thread, but last Saturday I met two new mums from Bellingen, lovely town, friendly people, but brain washed with New Age as fuck. These young mums were defiantly claiming how bad vaccinations, and how proud they are to have 'vaccinated' their kids by a homeopath or a naturopath or what the hell ever.

Coming from a totally different background (I grew up in Nepal where people die of not being able to vaccinate their kids, get medical treatment in time, mother/child dying during birth etc, it's a privilege reserved usually for the upper middle class), I was absolutely dumb founded when I found out the kind of things the otherwise lovely people from around Bellingen believe in.

Anti vaccination, Alternative medicine and absolute insistence on home birth/demonising hospital birth for the mother's birthing 'experience' has basically turned me off people into New Age completely.

I guess in the west, people have been living so well, so prosperously, so much comfort, to the point that they are now unable to recognize a threat when they see it.

They would not last that long in a third world for sure.

Perhaps some will say I am being too extreme but why are vaccinations not even compulsory yet in a first world country is beyond me. What about the child who could potentially be exposed to something? What if that child infected a lot of other children? Why such a blatant lack of responsibility? It should not even be up to the parents to decide whether or not they potentially could bring on a epidemic.

[Xeno]

Originally Posted by blunt

I guess in the west, people have been living so well, so prosperously, so much comfort, to the point that they are now unable to recognize a threat when they see it. [/b]

Yes.

I think it highlights the difference between imagination and fantasy.