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Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-some-mumps dept.

New submitter haroldmandel writes in with a story about the increase of certain diseases in school-age children due to parents not having their kids vaccinated. "Parents nervous about the safety of vaccinations for their children may be causing a new problem: the comeback of their grandparents' childhood diseases, reports a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Despite the successes of childhood immunizations, wrote Penn Nursing researcher Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, in the American Journal of Public Health, controversy over their safety has resulted in an increasing number of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated and obtaining legally binding personal belief exemptions against vaccinations for their children."

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  1. Re:SCAREMONGERING. by Sarten-X · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Having worked in the medical research field, I can tell you with certainty that vaccines are that profitable...

    • They're profitable for the data center operators, who spend six months running database queries to assemble a clinical trial.
    • They're profitable for the insurers, who no longer have to pay for treatment of some very difficult diseases.
    • They're profitable for the utility companies who charge for powering the lab equipment for several years while a vaccine is produced.
    • They're profitable for the data analysts, who are paid to go over the results from the lab tests only to say "chemical A did not significantly do anything different than chemical B".
    • They're profitable for the researchers who get paid for spending a decade understanding the biological mechanisms of any particular disease, and finding ways to disrupt them (and nothing else).

    Finally when it's all said and done, the actual pharmaceutical company can bring in billions of dollars in revenue selling the vaccine, which is just about enough to fund the next few projects.

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    You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
  2. Re:They're stupid by daem0n1x · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You post is just a bunch of straw men attacks.

    You do know that the authorities want to administer Gardasil to boys, right?

    What's wrong with that?

    The flu shot contains mercury (it's good for your baby, "they" say)?

    It contains a tiny amount of mercury, smaller than you'd get from eating fish. So, what's the problem? If you dread mercury that much, don't drink water or eat fish.

    They are also recommending lithium be added to drinking water, as well.

    Who are "they"? It was just a simple study! You make it sound like there's a hidden conspiracy for drugging Humanity!

    Don't be afraid to re-evaluate your beliefs from time to time. Culture, attitudes, environment...life...changes, and so should you.

    I do, you clearly don't. Otherwise, you'd be showing me any valid data, not trying to fool me into your beliefs using out-of-context data and alarmist bullshit.