In 2010, The Lancet finally withdrew Andrew Wakefield’s infamous 1998 paper claiming that there was a link between vaccines and autism, but the damage had already been done. He’d set off a tidal wave of people refusing vaccines on the grounds that they caused autism, claiming that their children had been ‘damaged’ by vaccines, and […]
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Get Your Vaccines, Keep Them Current, and Stop Making the World Unsafe for Everyone
I loathe the anti-vaccine movement with a flaming passion. I happen to be a firm believer that vaccines were one of the greatest developments in medicine, radically changing the nature of life on Earth for human beings and totally improving quality of life, survivability from common and potentially fatal childhood illnesses, and generally making the […]
Industrial Agriculture: Now Creating Superviruses With Excessive Vaccination!
If there’s one thing I’m a huge fan of, it’s vaccines. I love cost effective methods of preventing disease through the development of herd immunity, particularly in the case of extremely dangerous diseases like whooping cough and polio. The thought that these conditions were once fatal and much more common and now are not because […]