On 08-29-97  13:07, George Lagergren typed to Mark Probert
  regarding: => Vaccines <=
 Hello George,
 -=> Quoting Mark Probert to Brian Shaw <=-
 MP> Someone  just emailed me about vaccines and how they are the products
 MP> of various  conspiracies. I burned their computer down.
 GL> Mark  -->  As mentioned above, there is a lot of debate about
 GL> vaccines.    For example, take polio.  There ia a polio
 GL> vaccine to prevent a person from catching polio.  There are
 GL> some who say this vaccine has caused the polio virus to
 GL> mutate into the virus which causes the chronic fatigue
 GL> symdrome (CFS) virus.
      What scientific evidence for this exists ?   The last I heard,
      the cause of CFS was still undetermined.
 GL> So does one skip the vaccine to
 GL> avoid the future event but risk catching the current event
 GL> (polio) ???
 GL> A "catch-22" situation.  I, myself, prefer getting the
 GL> vaccine.
      Its ONLY a "catch 22" situation if you buy into current old wives
      tales and urban mythology which is exemplified by the notion you
      report.   I reccomend as a great read, Carl Sagan's _Demon Haunted
      World_ which deals directly with the current rise of psuedo-science,
      bad science, tabloid science ( or even Fidonet science ).  Future
      historians will note that one of the Internets profound effects was
      to afford an international forum with a false appearance of
      credibilty to millions of kooks and self professed prophets and
      experts who never before had access to such a wide audience to con.
      Is it coincidence that at the same time we are being flooded with
      unprecedented volumes of misinformation and disinformation, that
      our traditional mainstream media has become tabloidized ?
      If you confine your medical knowledge to hard facts and exclude wild
      speculations, you are less likely to find yourself in such situations.
      There are those (popular on the talk show circuit) who advise
      parents AGAINST vaccinating their children because one out of every
      200,000 or so had an undesirable or atypical reaction to the vaccine.
      The cost (economic and human/emotional) of treating the preventable
      illnesses which result from this foolish notion far, far exceed those
      of the few cases of atypical reactions to the vaccines.
      Regards,
      Ty
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