Vaccine study

Gee, I am a fair bit surprised to see the amount of play this Journal-renounced vaccine study is getting. The study is almost 20 years old and was done on only twelve children. No conclusion of any kind that it made should have been of any screaming import.

We all know that proving anything definitively in medicine is well-nigh an impossibility. The medical system has moved from proving-things-safe to managing-risks, instead. And herein lies the rub -- a clinician's judgment of risk differs markedly from a patient's informed judgment of risk. The patient is inclined to consider alternatives not within any specific physician's purview.

Informed consent [have the procedure or not] is quite a bit different from informed choice [an unbiased explanation of alternatives]. In our current system there is no "informed choice." We have a single paradigm system of health care. A single paradigm system is much like having only one political party or of allowing only one religion -- why would they lie?

Well, it is the credibility of the medical system that is highly suspect. There is no good source of drug information except from drug companies. Studies are largely funded by drug companies. Medical schools are funded by drug companies. Careers are made and broken by drug companies.

The medicos simply have no credibility; kinda like politicians. People know that the MMR was introduced as a super wad vaccine in 1970'ish and that since then autism has increased some ginormous amount; four hundred percent or seven fold or whatever. People know cancer rates are sky rocketing, even among youth; and, heart disease is reaching ever further across the years (30 is the new 60). Virtually all women will have detectable thyroid cancer on autopsy, half of all men prostate cancer; breast cancer among women may soon be 50% or more.

And where are the medicos? Nowhere helpful to be sure. Who banned plastic baby pablum? Activist groups not medicos. Who lobbys to ban transfats? Activists, not medicos. Pesticides, saturated fat, salt, soft plastics, fluoride?

If we choose to avoid the highly suspect products of modern medicine then there is no one to blame but the medicos themselves. They have a monopoly and they abuse it.

Sickness is caused. The medicos won't, or can't, prove it because proof in the scientific method is impossible. How convenient for the money makers.

If we choose to avoid vaccines it is because OUR multi-paradigmed risk analysis says it is likely safer in the long run.

No ideology -- religious, political, or economic -- can redeem the exercise of monopoly power.

Without open dissent, there can be no effect consent. Without available alternatives, the people cannot exercide their sovereign authority.

In science and technology, for example, a plurality of theories and methods may openly compete in order to demonstrate their respective validity ... Ultimate questions concerning the nature and meaning of life are settled, not by government fiat, but by individual choice.

Down with the medico monopoly!

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