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• robulus commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  Thread back from the dead. Great, time for my anecdote! After reading whatever stuff was published in the intarwebs about the association between MMR and autism, my wife had decided we'd get the separate injections and just pay for them. Its hard to find them and they are not subsidised, but why take a risk, however small? I went along with it without giving it too much thought. Then we talked to our GP, who managed to phrase it the best way I've heard yet: The MMR vaccination is the only thing we know of, out of any possible cause,...
• Antinous / Moderator commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  Is this a bad time to admit that I got a 104º fever after my last DPT shot. I was due-ish for tetanus and there was an adult pertussis outbreak going on, so I thought it prudent to get it, but what a nasty reaction. On the other hand, I had measles and chickenpox once, rubella twice and have a shriveled nut from mumps. Plus I went to school with kids who were in wheelchairs from polio and I've worked with people who were disfigured by smallpox....
• FoetusNail commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  Robulus, that's a great way of looking at this non-issue. Antinous, I too went to school with children who wore polio braces. I also knew one kid who, in hindsight, was possibly one of the very few Thalidomide victims in this country; he was missing both arms. Our doctor is from India, he has seen children dying from almost all of these diseases. Most children are never vaccinated, or only receive a few. He mentioned, one of the biggest problems, besides money, is keeping the vaccines properly refrigerated. Often, if the children are lucky enough to receive a vaccine, the...
• zio_donnie commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  wow. so democracy and free will now mean that the opinion of a plumber or a radio host on health issues has the same weight as a doctor's. just wow. so everyone is a doctor now just by reading a couple of articles (that he clearly does not understand). i feel dumb for actually studying medicine, i could just read the internets and i would have saved time and money. what's next? someone will pull out how big pharma does not want you to know about the miracles of homeopathy and chinese traditional medicine?...
• Antinous / Moderator commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  Kejamo, You're not in the system. Try again to create an account. If it doesn't work, e-mail me at my name at this domain and I'll try to sort it out....