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• 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...
• graydog commented on David After Dentist (aka Kid on Drugs), the remixes
  The dad and the kid were just on TV: http://tinyurl.com/newstome...
• 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....