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MPGA! (Make Polio Great Again)
As to the whole vaccines will either kill ya or make your kid autistic, most of that has been debunked.
A few things I’d like to point out:
Mike Adams also defends Scientology and has written for various Scientology publications over the years and while he claims otherwise, may have been at one time a Scientologist.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/06/23/scientology-and-mike-adams-it-all-become/Mike “The Health Ranger” Adams is also in the business of, after scaring people that “medicine” doesn’t work and evidence based science is a scam, of selling unproven supplements, i.e. snake oil, devices and other such quackery.
https://www.healthrangerstore.com/I really like this one and it’s only $ 3,495.00:
https://www.healthrangerstore.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/juvents-micro-impact-platform?variant=28521121485And this (and you have to trust him because he's a "Native American)
Also the confusion, whether mistakenly or purposely by Adams and other anti-vaxxers have is over methyl mercury which is a very different chemical from ethyl mercury, a component in the vaccine preservative thimerosal.
But even as there was no proof that thimerosal was dangerous given the very miniscule amounts, thimerosal was removed and has not been used as a preservative in any vaccine on the recommended schedule for children since 1999.
http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2015/feb/11/mike-adams/anti-vaccine-claim-rooted-fraud-confusion/
“What really sticks in my craw is the use of "fetal" tissue in producing vaccines.”
No. Not really. While there are some vaccines that need to be grown in a human vs an animal cell lines, it is not exactly “fetal” tissue per se nor do the two cell lines obtained from two abortions in the 1960’s require any cells or tissues from any subsequent abortions in order to maintain those two cell lines as they are “self-replicating” nor do those vaccines contain “fetal tissues”.
I fully understand the moral dilemma and objections involved but I would also be hesitant not to get my child vaccinated against a vaccine preventable disease that while may not be fatal to my child or result in any serious complications, could be if transmitted to another child. It is also important IMO to note that a Rubella infection in pregnant women may cause fetal death or congenital defects known as congenital rubella syndrome.
http://www.drwile.com/lnkpages/render.asp?vac_abortion“Gardasil”
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/one-stop-shop-science-myth-debunking-gardasil/http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/gardasil.aspIt also needs to be noted that the The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) depends upon self-reporting and is comprised of raw data only and therefor does not exclude those adverse effects later deemed to be unrelated.
For example, let’s say a 14-year-old girl gets the Gardasil vaccine and a week or two later she suddenly drops dead while playing field hockey. This may get reported to VAERS. But an autopsy shows she had a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect and this was actually the cause of death and unrelated to the vaccine. IIUC, it still stays in the VAERS and may not be updated to reflect that the vaccine was not related to the death.
Also an adverse effect after a vaccination as reported to VAERS can and often includes rather benign things such as redness and swelling at the injection site, and dizziness, nausea, vomiting and fainting after receiving a vaccine – something that is more often than not more attributable to fear of getting stuck by a needle than by the actual vaccination. But if reported it gets listed in VAERS as an adverse effect.
I’ll add more when I have more time.
But before I do, let me tell you about my older brother.
I was just an infant at the time in May of 1961 so I don’t remember it first hand, but I do remember my parents and my grandparents and my uncles and my brother talking about the time he who, was 12 years old at the time, came down with the Mumps.
He was sick and uncomfortable for about a week but seemed to recover and went back to school.
But then about a week and a half later he started not feeling well again, stated running a fever, broke out in a rash and seemed to be rather confused, out of sorts, then started hallucinating.
My parents took back to the doctor’s and the doctor sent them straight to the hospital ASAP where he was, after a spinal tap, diagnosed as having viral encephalitis/meningitis, a rare but not completely unheard of complication of Mumps (and also sometimes a complication of influenza, measles, and chickenpox).
My brother fell into a coma that lasted some 3 days during which time his prognosis was grave as aside from giving him IV liquids and keeping him comfortable, there was very little that could be done other than to wait it out.
His condition worsened and his veins started collapsing making it hard to maintain his IV’s, his doctors told my parents that it would be a miracle if he survived but even if he did, he might likely, because of the brain swelling, never be the same again, he might have permanent brain damage. A priest was summoned to perform Late Rites. My family and all our family’s friends including our Jewish friends, and his doctors and nurses, they all prayed for him.
He came out of the coma on the 4th day and the first thing he said asked our grandfather who was keeping the vigil at the time, was “Did Alan Sheppard make it back OK” as that was the last thing he remembered before he fell so seriously ill, watching the launch on TV.
My brother eventually made a full and complete recovery but spent over two months in the hospital and losing nearly half his body weight and I have the before and after pictures to prove it. He had to undergo rather intensive therapy to re-learn how to talk, walk and regain his motor skills, even how to hold a spoon and bring it to his mouth. My brother told me about his therapists who was also a Catholic Nun worked with him every day, nearly all day. She was tough and pushed him hard but also had a sense of humor, that she and he would have wheel chair races down the hospital hallways together and she called him “God’s miracle”.
While what happened to my brother was a rare complication of the Mumps, you can be sure that my parents made sure that I got all my vaccinations including for MMR once it came out as they never wanted for me to undergo what happened to my brother or for them to go through that again.
And my brother went on to get married and he and his wife had three children and he made sure his kids got their vaccinations.
Oh and ETA add. One of my mother’s cousins came down with Polio as a child. She lived but never walked again and died in her late teens.
