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Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science
The Bad Astronomer writes "A recent hearing of the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform became a bully pulpit for antivaccination rhetoric when Representatives Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh.) made speeches connecting vaccines to autism — a connection that medical experts have shown does not exist. Although there were actual medical researchers there as witnesses, they were mostly berated by the Congressmen on the panel. Vaccines are one of the most successful medical advancements in human history, having saved hundreds of millions of lives, and after copious studies have been shown to have no connection with autism. Despite this, a vocal antivax lobby exists, including, clearly, members of Congress. In part this is why preventable and potentially fatal diseases like pertussis and measles are once again on the rise."
Send all the uneducated religious people south of the Dixie line, us educated, non secular folk go north. Give it 15 years and see how each side turned out.
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And should be prosecuted as such. By convincing people to not vaccinate themselves, they are responsible for tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year from viruses like influenza.
OK, so the big evil corporations who make vaccines are intentionally buying off politicians to berate vaccines so that those big evil corporations lose money... or something...
Yeah, you got the standard "I hate corporations we need 100% government control of everybody's lives right now in the name of 'freedom'" positive mods. Interesting that your post had about as much logical content as the rantings of the aforementioned politicians....
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".. a connection that medical experts have shown does not exist."
Sonny, you ever actually read any real scientific studies? Any actual research protocols of studies you claim to prove otherwise??
Those "medical experts" from those companies which have racked up the largest criminal penalties in the history of humanity: GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, etc, etc., ad nauseum?
Over the past several years I, and numerous others, have posted links to well-respected and reputable studies by scientiest throughout the planet --- one of the recent ones was the French study detailing the correlation between incidents of childhood autism and the number of vaccinations administered to very young children under the age of 2 years, etc.
Unless you cite an overwhelming number of verified, and verifiable, studies with proper protocols having been followed, to bolster your point, you are just another voodoo-hoodoo stooge.
You remind me of that propaganda sister station to FoxFiction, NPR, which last year, on the anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination in November, broadcast a pure fiction as fact interview with a retiring crackerhead from South Carolina, who claimed to be a "journalist" and wrote the Rambler column for a major Southern newsrag.
This clown claimed to have run into a woman in Tennessee who had served in the military back in the 1950s, and while practising on the firing range at the base she was stationed in at Japan, frequently saw a young quiet Marine who came almost every day to practise firing his rifle. The Rambler claimed this woman told him she later recognized him again as Lee Harvey Oswald, on the day of Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963.
Problem? Women weren't allowed on any military firing range back then, and not even back in the late 1960s and 1970s when I was in the bag (in military and combat). Fiction is fiction, sonny, no matter how many times you spin it....
Anybody with those rather ignorant comments blithely believing every substance of unknown origin claiming to be a vaccine must be efficacious, ever follow recent current events? Ever????
/.'ers were much, much better informed --- now they fall for any pseudo-corporate hoodoo-voodoo......
As in the weaponizing of H5N1 just awhile back? As in the NIH and CDC funded said weaponizing, originating out of that bio-threat assessment unit at the University of Pennsylvania (Prof. Rubin), and developed at that Dutch institute and the University of Wisconsin?
I recall when
Greece went broke and their healthcare system utterly collapsed. And they're somehow a shining example of how to run things. I'll never understand it, as long as I live.
The stories and info posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only fools would take it as fact.
Uh please cite your sources. Everything I've read about NHS indicates the rationing (which is on going) causes far more problems than an insurance company that doesn't want to insure someone for basically nothing at all.
He's been frequently right when most of Congress was wrong. For instance, he firmly believed that Iraq had no WMDs.
Iraq did have WMDs. We found them. They were all Made in the USA and given/sold to him by Reagan. They were also so old as to be inoperable. But they were there. But that was ignored because now that Reagan is dead, we aren't supposed to talk about his multiple treasons. We are at war with Iraq. Reagan gave/sold weapons to our enemy we are at war with.
Ron Paul doesn't think he's nuts, and worked with him regularly on bipartisan initiatives.
Wait, are you arguing for or against his sanity? Most don't agree Ron is all there.
He's turned his political career into a small fortune
So abusing your politcal power for personal gain is a good thing?
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I have cousins in France, and your assessment is 100% in error. They want what we have in the US, but are unwilling to risk the change from Universal Health Care. We in the US have the best health care facilities and doctors in the world, just not everyone has access to them because of $$.
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