Anti-vaccinationist/Assertion table
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Main article Anti-vaccinationists. See also vaccine controversy, Vaccination, junk science
A peer reviewed published review of websites recruited through their links until 100 characterised as falling within the group identified a number of propositions which were usually or commonly held in common. (Anti-vaccinationist activity on the WWW)
Additional assertions or bases of argument provided from the Whale.to website are provisionally included. Whale.to holds copies of material relating to them.
There is no official catechism of beliefs, rather the spread is characterised by an absence of criticism of any content on any other site perceivable as anti-vaccinationist.
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This is a list of some common assertions of anti-vaccinators:
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*unquantified danger to diseases and immunisations can always allow changing the grounds... | ||||
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How dangerous are the diseases (A-v view)? |
complication rates in children Prove specific benefits from the specific infections Necessary: in the absence of them, demonstrate harm occurs; supposing harm occurs, could it be averted by causing infection unnaturally?; supposing it could, could most or all the harm be averted by unnaturally causing infection with a weakened version of the disease in question, or providing exposure to the products of such infection?; if not, why not? |
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This is a list of the essential assertions of anti-vaccinators: | First; By | Supplementary | These are a list of responses | first published ;in | |
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Calculate the numbers involved in a 99.4% decline in deaths after vaccination (in E&W). There is an asymptotic process here, with successive reductions taking more effort. |
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Smallpox has been eliminated. Much of the world has abject poverty still Polio is vastly decreased, immunisation is part of the process, when immunisation was interrupted in the Kano state of Nigeria in 2003, Polio increased. |
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Morbidity and mortality of several diseases are greater than anti-vaccinationist writings make clear |
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The US government is run by the oil industry
Google indicates many thousand pages of anti-vaccinationism |
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**Unhealthy, and/or malnourished children should not be vaccinated (ie most third world children). | While there is malnutrition and ill-health in the Third World, it is a grotesque exaggeration to suggest this is most children. It is seriously inconsistent to suggest that vaccination is not needed for the properly nourished, but that the poorly nourished should not receive it. |
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This falls into the category of natural experiments
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Also:
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Pasteur's demonstration is repeatable and his explanation well-established. Bechamp was wrong. |
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The Welcome Foundation is a not-for-profit Vaccine production in Cuba is not highly profitable.([11] cover) Experiments test hypotheses. emotional polemic, and yet immunisations are not confined to children. The world is full of lawyers. They don't think so. |
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State by state, and for other countries, this is susceptible to factual testing and citing laws... |
This is demonstrably untrue of Georgia, US http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/askdoe.aspx?PageReq=ASKNewcomer (viewed Feb 2006) |
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Dr Dunbar |
Present knowledge of the immune system allows us to make successful matched bone-marrow transplants and do many other clever things requiring an understanding. Package inserts are heavily regulated in the UK |
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