Can it be? The Daily Mail runs a PRO-vaccine story...

[vbloke]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...ng-danger.html

When I knocked a chimney out of my house last year, did I reckon I knew better than my structural engineer? Did I tell him I'd read an article in the Sunday supplements recommending balsa wood instead of steel? I wouldn't be here if I had. So what on earth makes me think I should tell my doctor - who has studied for at least seven years to get where she is - that I know better.

The arrogance is stunning, the stupidity is off the scale. But give the mother of a newborn something to fight against and logic is history.

[filippo lippi]

And some kudos for leaving this comment up

Congratulations to the Mail for pointing out that there is no link between MMR and autism, and that the original study was badly flawed.

Now, how about an apology for all the scare-mongering that the Mail did and still does? All the anti-MMR propaganda it put out. Rants by Melanie Phillips and Peter Hitchens, who apparantly DID and still do know better than all the doctors who have, as the above article points out, studied for years.

Shame on the Mail for being one of the leaders of the MMR Scare in the first place

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

There was a letter in the Independent at the weekend claiming that measles has never harmed a healthy child. Hmmm, I found it although I don't think it was online last time I looked.

I fear the writer longs to return to times of low life expectancy and high infant mortality.

Please tell me this is just nonsense.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...08-889643.html

The vaccine lobby is active again with its "potentially deadly measles" warnings. There are no cases in recorded medical history of any child, in reasonable health to begin with and with properly managed treatment, being harmed by measles.



My daughter had measles when she was five. She developed a high fever and then came out in spots and felt poorly for a few days. She was kept warm but given fresh air and water, and she emerged with a cleansing of inherited and acquired toxins, an enhanced immune system function and immunity for herself and her, now five-year-old, son.
This is, precisely, what the common childhood eruptive diseases are for.
Pat Rattigan
Chesterfield

[Matt]

There was a letter in the Independent at the weekend claiming that measles has never harmed a healthy child. Hmmm, I found it although I don't think it was online last time I looked.

I fear the writer longs to return to times of low life expectancy and high infant mortality.

Please tell me this is just nonsense.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...08-889643.html

It's nonsense.

http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/20...ts_no_joke.php

[Mongrel]

And a 2 second Google for "UK measles death" reports a 13 year old dying of the "First measles death for 14 years" in 2006.


But why let facts get in the way of rhetoric

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

It's nonsense.

http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/20...ts_no_joke.php

Nice.

Denialists point to all kinds of pseudo-evidence (i.e. made-up crap) when it comes to vaccination.

Interestingly I had my 'baby' book out a couple of nights ago. It's interesting to look back at what illnesses I had as a child, even just 30 odd years ago, and I seem to remember loads of other children being off school at various times with the same things. I had the chickenpox, tonsilitis, mumps and various other undisclosed short term illnesses.

Children seem much healthier in this regard these days, I guess that gives them the time to work on the childhood obesity though...