2011-02-01, 05:12 PM
Quote:It's unethical to intentionally expose anyone to a potentially deadly virus, so that's not going to happen. Anyway, it's far more scientifically sound than the smallpox numbers you quoted.
When you're comparing 0% in the vaccinated group to 32% in the unvaccinated group, that's not coincidence. There's simply no way to spin those statistics and say it's possible the two are uncorrelated.
In regard to autism, you've mentioned a case study of 7 British children (note: in Britain the chemical you linked to autism is illegal as a preservative) who showed signs consistent with autism. There are 3/4 of a million children born in Britain every year. Even assuming all 7 are the same age, if MMR has >=95% coverage, that's an incidence rate of 1 in 100,000. For the other 99,999 children, it prevents deadly respiratory illnesses. If everybody stopped taking the vaccine, and started contracting measles again, approximately 300 of those 100,000 would die. So what's worse, 300 deaths or 1 child with signs consistent with ASD?
Thank you for not mentioning the name of this illegal preservative, Thimerosal, which is given to infants as early as 6 months old in standard flu vaccinations.
Regarding your statistics of autism, where did you get that incidence rate? I hope it wasnt based on a study of only 7 children, because although a study of 7 children is decent for small studies, it is not a large enough sample to be used for accurate statistics.
Also, you are assuming that vaccines are a major cause of the reduced incidence rate of measles. Ever consider that it could possibly be a result of increased standards of living?
Quote:Measles outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination rates over 98 % in all parts of the U.S. including areas that had reported no cases of measles for years. As measles immunization rates rise to high levels measles becomes a disease seen only in vaccinated persons. An outbreak of measles occurred in a school where 100 % of the children had been vaccinated. Measles mortality rates had declined by 97 % in England before measles vaccination was instituted.
Also, for the person that mentioned whopping cough:
Quote:In 1986 there were 1300 cases of pertussis in Kansas and 90 % of these cases occurred in children who had been adequately vaccinated. Similar vaccine failures have been reported from Nova Scotia where pertussis continues to be occurring despite universal vaccination. Pertussis remains endemic[4] in the Netherlands where for more than 20 years 96 % of children have received 3 pertussis shots by age 12 months.http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james.htm
And regarding small pox, as much are you are trying to deny it, it is suspicious when more people are dying from the disease when the vaccine is introduced than before the vaccine is introduced.