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welshdean
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 09/10/2002 : 08:13:49
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We in the UK are suffering from an ever increasing threat from measles, mumps and rubella. This is solely because Dr Andrew Wakefield sggested that there is a causal link between MMR and Autism, IBS, and crones (sp) disease.
The reason for this post is that i'd be interested to see if the same brouhaha had occured in the states and if so what are your thoughts!
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 09/10/2002 : 12:45:42 [Permalink]
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There have been a few incidents of moronic television actors appearing on Oprah, etc. and trying to scare soccer moms into not vaccinating their kids, but I think (in this one case, at least!) that doctors are staving off this kind of idiocy.
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 09/11/2002 : 22:39:35 [Permalink]
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Actually, the school system is staving off the idiocy. MMRs are required in order to enroll your child for the school year. The only exception to this rule is for religous reasons. Namely, xian scientists.
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welshdean
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/12/2002 : 00:24:51 [Permalink]
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Actually, the school system is staving off the idiocy. MMRs are required in order to enroll your child for the school year. The only exception to this rule is for religous reasons. Namely, xian scientists.
Now thats the policy I'd like us to adopt in Blighty. Why should some sandal wearing, tofu muncher jeopardise the lives of (potentially) 10's of other kids, simply because they were told by a friends sisters uncle that knows somebody in a Gov't lab and he says it's unsafe.
Recent (uk) events in this debate have taken an interesting turn, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2048740.stm
Forgive me for being cynical but the anti MMR brigade shoild either present some hard evidence or crawl back under their little rocks!!
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
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Posted - 09/12/2002 : 00:52:00 [Permalink]
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The only exception to this rule is for religous reasons. Namely, xian scientists.
Isn't this a case where freedom of religion interferes with the health and safety of the populous? If these Christian Scientists are allowed to refuse the vaccine, doesn't that endanger our children by raising the general succeptibility to the disease?
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 09/12/2002 : 02:30:10 [Permalink]
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Now thats the policy I'd like us to adopt in Blighty. Why should some sandal wearing, tofu muncher jeopardise the lives of (potentially) 10's of other kids, simply because they were told by a friends sisters uncle that knows somebody in a Gov't lab and he says it's unsafe.
Forgive me for being cynical but the anti MMR brigade shoild either present some hard evidence or crawl back under their little rocks!!
I agree with you on the second point, but I really ought to mention that anti-immunization paranoia was (and still is) a favorite hobbyhorse for lunatic right-wingers, well before the demographic you mention became infected.
Perhaps someone's cultural prejudices are hanging out?
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