Penn & Teller's "BS" Yesterday on vaccinations...

I'm pretty sure that people who don't believe vaccines work won't believe anything. But in science, you vaccinate people and then expose them to the disease. If the rate of infection is lower in vaccinated populations than non-vaccinated populations, then you have a vaccine that prevents infection to some degree.

fair enough.

and you are right, just like you ask people what would convince them autism is irrelevant to vaccines, they never tell you.

and as my signature points out, the person who alleges he collected, read and knows AGW alarmism, has admitted that (practically, essentially, scientifically and empirically) nothing will convince him AGW is true.
 
Both of my parents are doctors. And more than 90 percent of the time they opt out of getting vaccinated for most anything. They know there's a very slight chance that many of the vaccines can make you really sick even die. Being doctors, they are of course the most important people in the world. So um it just doesn't work out cuz there's just so many people depending on them. Oh noez. You on the other hand, well I don't know it probably won't kill you...lol

doctors are not the most important if banks can rob you, and if media can lie to you.

as for your parents, I'm sure they understand herd immunity.
 
and how many did this vaccine make sick, or kill?

30 apparently.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/swine-flu/story.html?id=2259971

It's hard to tell from the above article if that's just Canada or worldwide. That said the best we can say about the H1N1 vaccination program is that it wasn't worth the money. The worst we can say is that it might have done more harm than good.

Note that it's hard to nail these things down. Ron Paul said 25 people died from the 1976 vaccinations. But according to 60 minutes 300 people died.

YouTube - CBS 60 Minutes 300 death claims from 1976 swine flu vaccine, only one death from flu
 
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30 apparently.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/swine-flu/story.html?id=2259971

It's hard to tell from the above article if that's just Canada or worldwide. That said the best we can say about the H1N1 vaccination program is that it wasn't worth the money. The worst we can say is that it might have done more harm than good.

Note that it's hard to nail these things down. Ron Paul said 25 people died from the 1976 vaccinations. But according to 60 minutes 300 people died.

YouTube - CBS 60 Minutes 300 death claims from 1976 swine flu vaccine, only one death from flu

maybe the 300 number included people such as these
(a made up symptom or made up cause)
YouTube - Desiree Jennings & Dr. Buttar on Inside Edition
 
maybe the 300 number included people such as these
(a made up symptom or made up cause)
YouTube - Desiree Jennings & Dr. Buttar on Inside Edition

Not unless these 275 people killed themselves after making up their cases.

Anyway, if you want to enrich the vaccine industry and shoot yourself up I'm not going to stand in your way. The risk/reward ratio is not nearly good enough for me. The problem is with folks who want to dismiss the legitimate concerns of others as "conspiracy theories".
 
Not unless these 275 people killed themselves after making up their cases.

no, somebody could have died, and their family or doctors couldn't determine the best cause, so vaccines might have been an easy scapegoat at the time.


Anyway, if you want to enrich the vaccine industry and shoot yourself up I'm not going to stand in your way.

cool.

The risk/reward ratio is not nearly good enough for me. The problem is with folks who want to dismiss the legitimate concerns of others as "conspiracy theories".

fair enough. we obviously draw the line differently
 
doctors are not the most important if banks can rob you, and if media can lie to you.

as for your parents, I'm sure they understand herd immunity.

Ah herd immunity...
Like I said when it's not necessary, why even take a very small risk? I personally think it's pretty cowardly lol. You'll find though alotta people in the medical field do take this approach.
 
Ah, "herd immunity". Love that those on RPF are pushing "herd immunity".

BTW, so if my child has a reaction within 48 hours of a multi dose vaccine, such as blood in the stool, and the Drs multiple times refuse to acknowledge it, or allow single dose vaccines as an alternative to see if one is the culprit....what should I do as a parent? Continue to inject my child with a chemical cocktail that I know is causing some direct reaction just to help the "herd immunity", and see if it stays at status quo or gets worse the next round? Wouldn't that be almost like abuse or at least negligent on my part as a parent?

I find it ironic that so many that believe wholeheartedly in vaccines, often react so violently to those who abstain. So, it is okay for you to force my child (by intense social pressure, law and/or physical force) to take a chemical cocktail for your child's immunity? But it is not okay for my child to stay as is, in a natural state, and let the immune system work things out? I'm not touching, injecting or forcing anything in your child.

My husband and I actually got into a discussion with his formerly favorite aunt on vaccinations recently. She was in an extremely argumentative mode and tried to argue everyone should be forced to have vaccinations. We calmly asked what about those who had reactions (minor to severe). Within two minutes the conversation went downhill very fast. She said they were so few that had reactions or are injured, that for the good of the many everyone should be forced to....We pointed out our 2nd and 3rd children both had reactions, and we have stopped vaccinations. We asked would she potentially risk their lives by forcing something into their system against their (and our) will to save her own. She (yelling/screaming by now....she was very heated), said yes she would kill our child to save her own life. She actually said this, in front of our children, coming aggressively at me while I held our youngest in my arms. My husband had to physically get between her and me as she cornered me. Needless to say we won't be around her anymore. She is the extreme example of where progressivism heads to when discussing social matters. That for the "social good" it is okay to violate another.

BTW, it is very hard to get Drs to acknowledge reactions, much less report them in VEERS, so the data is likely faulty. We were pro-vaccination before our 2nd child started having reactions. We did our research on the .gov site as asked to by our Dr at the time, and he sadly failed when we asked him many questions he should've known the answer to (like what the ingredients were in each vaccine). The vaccine makers are making it more difficult to obtain single vaccinations, not easier. And, they are also leaving in many questionable ingredients, despite campaigns to the contrary.

Also, some outbreaks are caused by those who have had the vaccination (smallpox) and then expose others to it.

I will not force people to not take vaccinations. I would like the courtesy of people not forcing my children (or me) to take them in return.

AND OBTW - Where do all those recommendations from the "settled science" come from? The CDC. I know no one here on the RPF could in their wildest imagination believe that there could be a hidden agenda there that might lead someone in the CDC to cherry pick their "settled science." Nope. No chance....
 
Lots of those who do not vaccinate do not believe vaccines cause autism. It's wrong to assume you know why people make the choices they make.

I don't want to get into it too far but as a whole vaccines help weaken the gene pool as even fatal diseases are self limiting. The plague saw survivors and those people went on to produce people with resistance.
 
Ah, "herd immunity". Love that those on RPF are pushing "herd immunity".

Pushing? not everything is political.


BTW, so if my child has a reaction within 48 hours of a multi dose vaccine, such as blood in the stool, and the Drs multiple times refuse to acknowledge it, or allow single dose vaccines as an alternative to see if one is the culprit....what should I do as a parent?

is this typical? what exactly is the reaction?

do you expect a simple answer?


Continue to inject my child with a chemical cocktail that I know is causing some direct reaction just to help the "herd immunity", and see if it stays at status quo or gets worse the next round?

That you know? What is the reaction?


Wouldn't that be almost like abuse or at least negligent on my part as a parent?

or paranoid and cynical.


I find it ironic that so many that believe wholeheartedly in vaccines, often react so violently to those who abstain.

I don't believe wholeheartedly in vaccines, but the biggest abstainers I've seen get their arguments from fearmongers, rumors, and other baseless information.

So, it is okay for you to force my child (by intense social pressure, law and/or physical force) to take a chemical cocktail for your child's immunity?

No more than it's OK for me to force your child to live if you chose to let him die.

No more than it's OK for force you to quarantine your child if there's reason to believe they may be a risk to others.

No more than it's OK for somebody to force me to keep my child away from yours for my child's good.


But it is not okay for my child to stay as is, in a natural state, and let the immune system work things out?

Not all diseases are equal, so there's no simply answer to "let the immune system work things out".

I'm not touching, injecting or forcing anything in your child.

But if you purposely refuse to vaccinate your child, you're exposing mine to unnecessary risk. (of course, this is based on my reliance to medical professions saying that the vaccine is helpful, the disease is real, and prevention is serious)

My husband and I actually got into a discussion with his formerly favorite aunt on vaccinations recently. She was in an extremely argumentative mode and tried to argue everyone should be forced to have vaccinations.

I don't believe vaccines are perfect. Just for the record.


We calmly asked what about those who had reactions (minor to severe). Within two minutes the conversation went downhill very fast. She said they were so few that had reactions or are injured, that for the good of the many everyone should be forced to....We pointed out our 2nd and 3rd children both had reactions, and we have stopped vaccinations.

what were the reactions, short or long term?

We asked would she potentially risk their lives by forcing something into their system against their (and our) will to save her own. She (yelling/screaming by now....she was very heated), said yes she would kill our child to save her own life.

as if you'd do the opposite.

She actually said this, in front of our children, coming aggressively at me while I held our youngest in my arms. My husband had to physically get between her and me as she cornered me. Needless to say we won't be around her anymore. She is the extreme example of where progressivism heads to when discussing social matters. That for the "social good" it is okay to violate another.

I dare you say you'd not violate or use force to protect social good.


BTW, it is very hard to get Drs to acknowledge reactions, much less report them in VEERS, so the data is likely faulty.

So either the doctors are in on a conspiracy, in which case you should stop trusting them, or you're seeing what you shouldn't worry of.

We were pro-vaccination before our 2nd child started having reactions. We did our research on the .gov site as asked to by our Dr at the time, and he sadly failed when we asked him many questions he should've known the answer to (like what the ingredients were in each vaccine). The vaccine makers are making it more difficult to obtain single vaccinations, not easier. And, they are also leaving in many questionable ingredients, despite campaigns to the contrary.

This would run completely contrary to the claim that they just want to make money. If money were to goal, they'd make placebo vaccines and never risk being accused of giving harmful injections.

If hurting people were the goal, they'd not nicely ask you to get vaccinated.

What's a questionable ingredient? Thimerisol?

Also, some outbreaks are caused by those who have had the vaccination (smallpox) and then expose others to it.

I will not force people to not take vaccinations. I would like the courtesy of people not forcing my children (or me) to take them in return.

you sound like there's a difference between "active" and "passive" use of force and exposure to danger.



AND OBTW - Where do all those recommendations from the "settled science" come from? The CDC. I know no one here on the RPF could in their wildest imagination believe that there could be a hidden agenda there that might lead someone in the CDC to cherry pick their "settled science." Nope. No chance....

it's possible.

where do you get your settled science? or is everything about your child?
 
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Lots of those who do not vaccinate do not believe vaccines cause autism. It's wrong to assume you know why people make the choices they make.

I'd like to hear what their basis is, other than "well, it's just this report, and this other one, so overall it's a lot of suspicions"


I don't want to get into it too far but as a whole vaccines help weaken the gene pool as even fatal diseases are self limiting. The plague saw survivors and those people went on to produce people with resistance.

are you a eugenicist?
 
no, somebody could have died, and their family or doctors couldn't determine the best cause, so vaccines might have been an easy scapegoat at the time.

cool.

fair enough. we obviously draw the line differently

Yeah. Fair enough. All I have to add is that if 275 people died from unknown causes and all had been vaccinated that is a large enough number to statistically conclude the vaccines had something to do with it. The cause of most deaths can quite easily be determined.
 
Penn and Teller's BULLSHIT! What an apt name for their show.

The gold standard for clinical trials on medications is the randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial. But so far as I know, none have ever been done on innoculations. That actually makes me do a double WTF? As innoculations are delivered essentially the same way as medicines, there are no study-design or other methodological problems with doing a control group study of them.

Why haven't any been done?

And please, don't give me the "it's unethical" "argument" unless you want that response ruthlessly torn apart. The unethical "argument" begs the question that a control group study is trying to answer.

The cohort studies they do on innoculations have self-selection problems. Generally healthier people tend to follow (bullshit) advice from (as we know from many examples in other arenas) health "authorities"

Control groups trials necessarily deprive half the study participants of a potential but unproven cure or prevention method. The after-the-fact cohort study methodology does not prove that a vaccine not only is effective but also that the costs of the innoculation itself and of possible adverse reactions (Guillan Barré, autism, etc) outweigh the vaccinated minus unvaccinated levels of morbidity, relative incidence of each level of severity and mortality of the the disease that the innoculation would prevent.

This study indicates some of the problems with cohort studies (virtually the only type of study done on vaccines):

Abstract
Numerous observational studies have reported that seniors who receive influenza vaccine are at substantially lower risk of death and hospitalization during the influenza season than unvaccinated seniors. These estimates could be influenced by differences in underlying health status between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. Since a protective effect of vaccination should be specific to influenza season, evaluation of non-influenza periods could indicate the possible contribution of bias to the estimates observed during influenza season.

Methods We evaluated a cohort of 72 527 persons 65 years of age and older followed during an 8 year period and assessed the risk of death from any cause, or hospitalization for pneumonia or influenza, in relation to influenza vaccination, in periods before, during, and after influenza seasons. Secondary models adjusted for covariates defined primarily by diagnosis codes assigned to medical encounters.

Results The relative risk of death for vaccinated persons compared with unvaccinated persons was 0.39 [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 0.33–0.47] before influenza season, 0.56 (0.52–0.61) during influenza season, and 0.74 (0.67–0.80) after influenza season. The relative risk of pneumonia hospitalization was 0.72 (0.59–0.89) before, 0.82 (0.75–0.89) during, and 0.95 (0.85–1.07) after influenza season. Adjustment for diagnosis code variables resulted in estimates that were further from the null, in all time periods.

Conclusions The reductions in risk before influenza season indicate preferential receipt of vaccine by relatively healthy seniors. Adjustment for diagnosis code variables did not control for this bias. In this study, the magnitude of the bias demonstrated by the associations before the influenza season was sufficient to account entirely for the associations observed during influenza season.

In other words, more health-conscious and consequently healthier people tend to get flu shots so they're not going to get as sick. Note also that they use indicies of infection such as pneumonia hospitalisation and mortality, rather than confirm diagnosis by viral titer.

With no control group studies, innoculations get a free ride on the benefits of clean water, better sanitatation, better nutrition and generally better health habits of the populations they're given to. A scarlet fever vaccine, if one had been developed, would no doubt be solely credited for the downtrend of the morbidity and mortality of that disease over the past 60 years.
 
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Lest anyone find a counterexample of one of the two or three placebo studies they've done on vaccines, here's one thing to keep in mind about them. The control group is given not normal saline but instead a toxic cocktail of all the adjuvants and preservatives the vaccine contains, minus the chicken embryos, rat fetuses, contaminated monkey viruses and various other biological waste of the vaccine. So any (primarily neurological and anaphylacitc) adverse reactions and deaths caused by the mercury, aluminium, sqaulene and other toxic shit are also present in the control group.
 
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You really need to be careful of that squalene stuff. Do you know what it really is? An oil. Your own body even produces it- it is what leaves the mark of your fingerprints. You have more squalene on your keyboard right now than you have ever received via vaccinations. Even eaten ice cream? It is in that too. You have consumed more squalene in one dish of icecream than all of the vaccinations in your lifetime. You can buy squalene at health foods stores- it is good for your skin. Mercury is not used in vaccines intended for children (the H1N1 was allowed to use it but that was not intended for children and versions without it were available) and the version which is used is quickly passed through the body- it has a half life in the body of about seven days so it does not build up toxicity like other versions of mercury (ethyl mercury is the one in some vaccines, methyl mercury is the more toxic version). After thimerisol was removed from childhood vaccines, the rates of autism continued to rise- not diminish as one would expect if the thimerisol were a factor in autism.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squalene
Squalene is a natural organic compound originally obtained for commercial purposes primarily from shark liver oil, though plant sources (primarily vegetable oils) are used as well, including amaranth seed, rice bran, wheat germ, and olives. All plants and animals produce squalene, including humans. Squalene has been proposed to be an important part of the Mediterranean diet as it may be a chemopreventative substance that protects people from cancer.[1][2]

Squalene is a hydrocarbon and a triterpene, and is a natural and vital part of the synthesis of cholesterol, steroid hormones, and vitamin D in the human body.[3] Squalene is used in cosmetics, and more recently as an immunologic adjuvant in vaccines.

Ethyl vs Methyl Mercury
http://www.myomancy.com/2005/05/ethyl_mercury_v
Myomancy ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism Ethyl Mercury Versus Methyl Mercury
One of the proposed links between Mercury and Autism is Thimerosal, a compound that has been used in vaccinations. A new study [PDF of abstract] from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA has examine the different effects of ethyl mercury, used in Thimerosal, and methyl mercury, commonly used in industrial processes. Most of the toxicology data on mercury is based on accidental exposure to Methyl Mercury in the work place.
The study inject new born monkeys with either ethyl mercury (in the form of thimerosal) or methyl mercury in doses equivalent to that found in vaccinations for human babies. Mercury levels were then monitored and it was found that the ethyl mercury cleared from the body a lot quicker than the methyl mercury. Critically brain concentrations of total mercury were significantly lower by about three-fold for the thimerosal exposed infants when compared to the methyl mercury infants. This is important because mercury causes brain damage only through long-term exposure (a fact that gave us the phrase ‘as mad as a hatter‘). Thus if the body is cleaning itself quickly of the ethyl mercury, it doesn’t have the chance to build up and cause damage.

Thimerisol Discontinued but Autism Rises. There are simliar results from studies in the US:
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/science/autism-and-thimerosal-danish-study
The question
Did the incidence of autism in Denmark decrease after thimerosal-containing vaccines were discontinued in 1992?

The study
Thimerosal-containing vaccines were used in Denmark from the early 1950s until 1992—when thimerosal was removed from vaccines. If thimerosal-containing vaccines were causing autism in Danish children, the removal of thimerosal from vaccines should have impacted the incidence of autism.

To see if that was the case, the researchers analyzed data on autism cases from the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register dating back to 1971.

The findings
From 1971 to 2000, 956 children were diagnosed with autism, with a rise in the number of cases in the 1990s. They found no correlation between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. The incidence [number of new cases over a time period] of autism remained fairly stable until 1990 and thereafter increased throughout the study period, including the period when thimerosal was no longer in vaccines.



Their data do not suggest a cause-and-effect relation between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.
 
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This is the same man who can't support Rand Paul because he's a Christian.... wtf?
 
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