Things Vaccines Have Caused

[realisticphish]

-Autism, of course
-Swine Flu
-Nausea
-Insanity
-Erectile dysfunction
-Fertility
-Infertility
-Religious Fundamentalism
-Jimmy Fallon
-The cancelation of "Firefly"
-Paris Hilton
-The color beige

Anything else?

[onager]

1. Rainbow-farting ponies

Check out Skepchick.org, who are all over the autism/vaccine scare. They are writing to America's Woo-Enabler-In-Charge, Oprah, to try and drum a few facts into her thick skull.

They don't expect much. At least not, as one poster pointed out, until some kids die from not being vaccinated. At which time Oprah will feature the weeping Moms on her show, asking why they ever listened to Dr. Jenny McCarthy on the subject.

Rebecca Watson of Skepchick wrote Oprah once before, on a subject dear to all of our shriveled little hearts in here. She never got an answer:

An open letter to Oprah Winfrey.
February 16th, 2007

Dear Oprah,

...Recently, you’ve used your stage to promote the work of self-professed psychics John Edward and Allison DuBois, as well as Dean Radin, who believes that we can physically alter reality simply by wishing hard enough...

John Edward alone could out-lie James Frey with a gallon of sodium pentathal coursing through his veins and a magical lie-detecting electro-shock machine hooked up to his genitals.

Allison Dubois, inspiration for the television show Medium, claims to have helped police solve a number of murder mysteries. Well that’s odd, because she has yet to provide a shred of proof for this claim. I’m going to write to NBC and tell them I can divine the future by reading the swirls in caramel fudge sundaes. Think they’ll give me my own TV show, too?

Oprah, you promoted a “documentary” that claims to show proof that you can literally alter reality by wishing. We’re not talking about the power of positive thinking; we’re talking about the ability to create a pony that farts rainbows by merely thinking about it...

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=407

[mr blur]

4. Wonder why Oprah didn't reply -

Funny, that.

Good letter

[dropkickpa]

11. I'm dying here

[realisticphish]

12. I'm an SGU listener

Rebecca is awesome :D

[mr blur]

2. - Stinking rich Big Pharma executives,

(although we poor shills seem to be missing out on the wealth)

- Dumb postings on DU.

[JackRiddler]

17. Well, that's actually true.

Presumably you're not a Big Pharma executive making a bad salary?

Nevertheless you could sum it up:

- practical eradication of a lot of once-deadly diseases, saving millions of lives
- a far, far smaller number of deaths due to complications (but there's no need to sneeze at them)
- an incentive to vaccinate beyond what may be necessary, and to complicate the debate with PR.

Single-payer universal would serve to change the last item.

It's like a lot of the advantages that modern civilization really does confer. There are trade-offs, but we decide to accept the price and in this case, as a vaccinated person who never got a lot of junk I wouldn't have liked, I agree.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Spontaneous combustion?

A lot of profits for Big Pharma? No, really - if you don't die of whooping cough or diphtheria at the age of 2, you are more likely to be a big consumer of blood pressure medicines and anti-arthritis pills at the age of 92. Behold their evil plot!

[moggie]

5. Good point!

Vaccines cause old people. And, therefore, Florida.

[varkam]

15. I always suspected there was something nefarious about Florida. Now I know.

:evilgrin:

[TZ]

6. Amnesia.

Because all the anti-vaxx fuckwads have forgotten how horrible infectious diseases like small pox, polio, measles, pertussis etc really are.
Ironic isn't it. How many of these "vaccines are toxic" woos would probably be dead or disfigured without them
.
Edit: I've heard this theory before that vaccines actually are such a great technology that they've undermined themselves by making life so much better people take them for granted.

[GoneOffShore]

7. Here's a link that shows off just how bad things are

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/05/homeopathy_kills_a_child.php


I'm finding that I'm hanging out at Science Blogs more and more, especially as GD and GDP seem to be sinking more and more into irrelevancy and "teh stupid".

OT but Interesting stuff here. http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-which-russell-encounters-eaglefish.html

[TZ]

9. What our friend Dr. Strange is REALLY a homeopathic practitioner?

I knew that "math professor" was really just a cover...


" In other words, homeopathy is nothing more than sympathetic magic suitable for use by Doctor Strange...."
:hide:

[Dr. Strange]

10. In my defense, that wasn't in the original script.

[semillama]

8. Do you dare descend into the darkest pits of woo on autism????

This isn't dedicated solely to Vaccines cause autism, more like science causes autism.

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=1077468

Every bit of horrifying stupid woo you've ever heard about autism is present on the two pages of this thread, and a few I had never heard of before - Toothpaste and Electromagnetic Fields!

Also, you will learn that mercury poisoning and nutritional deficiencies can be inherited!

[progressoid]

13. 9/11

[realisticphish]

14. wow

I can't believe I missed that one :D

[Chowlie]

16. Noted medical expert Jim Carrey is against them.

That's good enough for me! ;)

[MrMonk]

18. What haven't they caused?

http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20090325.html

I've been looking for an opportunity to post this.

[semillama]

19. Excellent! n/t