Reply #17: Man, I'd love to say that. However, on this they probably do have a point. [View All]

[TheMadMonk]

I have very little time for anti-vaccers, but on this I WILL side with them, however big a twat I believe them to be on the subject of thiomerserol. There have been just too many examples of bad quality control in the medicines and medical supply industry of late to ignore.


Supposedly sterile hypodermics assembled by ungloved hands in less than sterile surroundings.

Children's OTC liquid pain medications so badly mixed that single doses HAVE killed.

Other medications (particularly those supplied to the "alternative" market) have repeatedly been demonstrated to contain no theraputic agent at all or only a fraction of what would be a suitable theraputic dose.

One might ask, why is it that vets actually weight their patients and calculate doses accordingly, but people doctors use a fucking AGE CHART to determine dosage?


Fortunately for the majority, the human animal is a fairly resiliant creature. We can often overcome disease even when our medicine later proves to be nothing but sugar water. And the difference between a theraputic and lethal dose of most medicines is enough that most of us will survive low to mid level overdosing for the course of a standard prescription even when we're sick as dogs.