tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988323189898113183.post2994496604357525122..comments2023-12-18T01:01:57.910-08:00Comments on Modern School: Superstition, Pseudoscience and Threat to Children Grow in CaliforniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988323189898113183.post-14986440691643492772011-09-15T06:56:26.500-07:002011-09-15T06:56:26.500-07:00Your comments reflect exactly the kind of paranoia...Your comments reflect exactly the kind of paranoia and ignorance I'm criticizing.<br /><br />1st, if I was paid by the drug companies, I wouldn't continue teaching. I'd be richer and have a hell of a lot fewer headaches.<br /><br />2nd, I wasn't lecturing you personally, or anyone. Simply pointing out the hypocrisy and the facts. If you don't like hearing the truth, then don't waste your time reading my blog or writing hysterical and ill-informed letters!<br /><br />3rd, mercury (thimerasol) hasn't been used in children's vaccines for a decade, now. Even so, the hypothesis that mercury in vaccines was causing autism has been thoroughly discredited, it's main proponent barred from practicing medicine and his research paper retracted.<br /><br />4th, becoming a vegetable or having any sort of health effect after getting a vaccine does NOT prove that the vaccine was the cause any more than going to the store and running into a friend causes you to run into the friend. It may be connected or it may be coincidence.<br /><br />In the case of Guillain-Barre syndrome, the cases during the swine flu epidemic of the 1970s was likely just coincidence. The number of cases was either exactly the same as would occur naturally (about 1-2 cases per 500,000) or nominally higher (about 2-3 cases per 500,000). Even so, this increase would be so low as to be far outweighed by the protection the vaccine would have given over the possibility of a deadly pandemic, like in 1919, in which 50-100 million people died worldwide, the deadliest disease outbreak in the history of Earth.<br /><br />So let's be clear about the facts: getting vaccinated, particularly for serious diseases like smallpox and polio, has dramatically decreased childhood deaths, whereas the documented risks of vaccines has caused very few deaths.Anonimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11040156020859417287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988323189898113183.post-64473036489560765272011-09-14T22:16:43.128-07:002011-09-14T22:16:43.128-07:00It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn ...It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn you were being paid by drug companies to write this. I know a family whose perfectly normal child became a vegetable after receiving the pertussis vaccine, so don't lecture me about how "safe" vaccines are. Anyone with any common sense knows injecting mercury into a human body cannot have positive outcomes. Why do the wealthy have increasing rates of non-vaccinated kids? Because they are more educated. Look at the HPV vaccine, with increasing numbers of young girls having adverse reactions (such as Guillain Barre Syndrome) and even deaths. The flu vaccine is one of the biggest money making scams ever devised. You are pushing this crap, either knowingly or not, and are just as guilty as the drug companies are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com