"Carole" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:I've been following the vaccination argument for quite a while and
sitting on the fence, not knowing which way to jump.
What finally made me lean towards anti-vaccination is partly because
the conventional system flogs it so relentlessly.
Vaccination prevents disease. How many cases of smallpox and polio have been
reported in the US in the last year? None. The rate of other preventable
diseases, like chicken pox (which kills about 50 people a year in the US),
invasive pneumococcal disease, Hib menigitis, measles, which has a fatality
rate of about 1 in 1000, and rubella, which used to be a leading cause of
birth defects, are all markedly down, as is the cost of these illness in
terms of sickness and death.
Quoted message said:If vaccination did
actually improve a person's health it follows that conventional
medicine has actually got something right.
Yeah, it does. Conventional medicine saves about 1/2 of all people with
cancer and about 70-75% of kids with cancer. It does wonders in saving lives
of people who have had heart attacks or have been injured. It is able to
replace diseased organs. It can prevent damage when blood supply is cut off
from the brain (stroke).
Quoted message said:Why would they have just ONE THING right and the rest wrong? It
doesn't add up.
Medicine is not perfect. Way too many people die from cancer (about 1/2).
Every treatment has side effects. People wait too long in doctors' offices.
Too many people in the US don't have insurance.
But it is better than any alternative medicine, because it is based on
science and has been shown to work.
Quoted message said:Carole
http://www.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/allopathy.htm
The website is incorrect. I support chelation which has not been shown to
help anything, except acute heavy metal poisoning. In addition, the
references include whale.to, the biggest medical joke site in the world (the
author of the whale to site clearly has no clue about medicine, vaccines or
science).
The only proof these website offer to support their opinion that their form
of treatment is of any medical value is tenacity: If they say it enough,
they must be right.
Jeff