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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:14 AM Original message |
A few resources regarding the anti-vaccine 'movement' |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm going to distribute anti-vaccination literature at right-wing rallies. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. ... |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:25 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. No need. There are plenty of right-wingers in the Anti-vaxx |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I think most of the people posting anti-vax shit here on DU are right-wingers trying to kill us. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Not necessarily right-wingers. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Which they have un-recced because they're willfully ignorant douchebags. n/t |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I don't care about recs/unrecs. They're irrelevant, since |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. I know a man who became anti-vaccine after his daughter had a bad reaction to a Hepatitis B vaccine |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:08 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Like all medications, including herbal medications, |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:10 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I've heard enough stories from pre-vaccine times to know they are a very good thing |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:19 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Oh, yes. You don't hear anti-vax propaganda from folks |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
31. I recently met two people just a few years older than I am, who had polio as children |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 12:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Yes, it hasn't been that long. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. If you meet a Republican who has the flu, offer to drive him to a Republican Town Hall meeting. n/t |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:46 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. and tell them washing your hands is a conspiracy to get you to buy more soap. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #1 |
24. Funny, but ... epidemics don't respect political lines. |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
3. Idiots... |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. kick |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
11. ... |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
15. The price of anti-vaccine fanaticism: Case histories |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #15 |
30. According to Dr. Martha Herbert of Harvard, newer research on autism |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
19. K and R |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Thanks. The unrecs will probably win on this one, but |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:14 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I did what I could. For some people, conspiracies are their substitute religion. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
21. Unfortunately, DUers with legitimate concerns about specific vaccines |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:14 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Bullshit. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. This sometimes does happen, |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:31 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. True. Vaccines shouldn't be rushed out without extensive testing just because |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. The thing about pandemics is that they spread with |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:54 PM Response to Reply #28 |
46. What was the last Pandemic you lived through? |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #46 |
53. What does that question have to do with anything? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:32 AM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Not at all. Only those who depend on and promulgate |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I have been accused here numerous times of being an "anti-vaxer" |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Yes, you have. Because you post bullshit about vaccines. |
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infojunkie (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 02:50 AM Response to Reply #33 |
57. wrong |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #21 |
48. Yes indeed. As David Kirby said, it's downright "Rovian!" |
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BuddhaGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 09:55 AM Response to Reply #21 |
51. +1 |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
32. You are doing public health a disservice. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Most diseases are environmentally caused. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 01:13 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. The autism epidemic, which is real, is most likely due to modern environmental toxin(s). |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 02:03 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. That's possible, although there's some new info |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 03:49 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. There is no epidemic. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Read the link. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. There does not appear to be a new 'epidemic'. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 05:43 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. If people were diagnosed with something else 30 years ago |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 06:24 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. There is certainly a huge decline in children diagnosed as 'psychotic' or 'schizophrenic' |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 09:56 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Autistics wee labeled as "retarded" or "childhood schizophrenic" in the past. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #43 |
54. Say what? |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
34. Happy to rec...nt |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
39. I get my yearly vaccination at the VA in Dallas |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:26 PM Response to Reply #39 |
50. According to a toxicologist I've communicated with, this is a legitimate |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 01:31 PM Response to Reply #39 |
55. Your very own body makes formaldehyde as a waste product. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
45. Happy to recommend |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-28-09 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
49. As others have pointed out, there are legitimate concerns |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:59 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. No - but those who link to right-wing conspiracy sites to justify their concerns can be dismissed |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 06:29 AM Response to Reply #49 |
58. How would you go about making vaccines safer |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
56. I'm taking notes. |
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