Re: SHOTS IN THE DARK

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PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM THIS GROUP!!!! sdayberry@... Thank you ----- Original Message ----- From: cavegrl777@... Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:32 PM undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [] SHOTS IN THE DARK Shots in the darkBy Vox DayMonday, February 18, 2002The recent decision of Washington, D.C., officials to pursue parents whorefuse to vaccinate their children with fines and even jail time makes sensein a twisted sort of way. After all, the old solution of banning thechildren from attending public school was beginning to look more and morelike an incentive plan, considering the ignominious performance of theDistrict's notorious schools.But why are so many parents steadfastly refusing to inject their children?Perhaps because they've learned to be dubious of the official line thatvaccines are A Good Thing. The official line rests on a few simple notions,most of which fall apart completely once they're closely examined. Aparticular favorite of doctors is to state that no scientific study has everfound a causal link between vaccinations and autism, or between vaccinationsand a whole host of Bad Things which most parents would very much like theirchildren to avoid.What generally goes unsaid is that no serious studies have been done onthese issues, since it is in the best interests of the pharmaceuticalcompanies manufacturing the vaccines, the politicians requiring them, andthe doctors administering the shot, to avoid delving into the subject. Evena much-ballyhooed report last year from the English Institute of Medicinerejecting the MMR vaccine-autism link was not a study proper, but a criticalreview of Dr. Wakefield's study of 170 English children who had"undergone regression after receiving the vaccine."When pressed on this dearth of study, vaccine proponents fall back oninsisting that it would be immoral to allow a control group of children togo unvaccinated, thus creating an impenetrable circle of illogic in defenseof their assertion that vaccines are A Good Thing. The shotmeisters alsomake a habit of blaming various outbreaks of things like measles on theunvaccinated in our midst, which is simply not true since by even therabidly pro-vaccination Center for Disease Control's reckoning, only 27.7percent of the measles cases in 1987 could be considered preventable.On television, you know that a child is doomed as soon as you learn thathe's unvaccinated. I'm still curious to know if NBC and ER collected some ofthat Clinton administration propaganda money for the episode in which amisled mother's nice young unvaccinated boy dies of measles. But out here inthe real world, in the unlikely event that a child does get measles, thechances that the disease will prove fatal are extremely low. The worstoutbreak in the last 15 years was in 1990, when there were 27,786 cases and89 deaths. That's a 0.32 percent chance of dying on top of a 0.0115 percentchance of coming down with the disease in the first place, compared to achild's 0.2 percent chance of coming down with autism by the age of 5.Because the number of measles cases was 12 times greater than normal in 1990and the fatalities occurred in people of all ages, a child under 5 isapproximately 800 times more likely to develop autism than die of measles inan average year.Other diseases for which vaccinations are provided are barely worthmentioning, since children almost never die from tetanus or rubella.Contrast this with the fact that the federal government has been forced topay out more than $1 billion since the establishment of the NationalChildhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986, and this despite the admission by aformer head of the Food and Drug administration that "only about 1 percentof serious events are reported to the FDA."It is true that there is not yet any absolute scientific proof that vaccinesinjure and kill thousands of children every year, but the money trail andanecdotal evidence continues to pile up in a manner that would suffice toconvince a jury, if not a scientist. It is imperative that these matters beinvestigated thoroughly and completely, and if it is found that thesemandated vaccines are indeed wreaking havoc on the children of America,those responsible for creating, mandating and administering them must beseverely punished.<A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26500">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26500</A>FAIR USE NOTICE:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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