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Re: Materna Vit Deficiency and Autism From: DoctorJoe@aol.com Tue Apr 28 09:56:47 2009 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Non-reassuring tracing in latent phase Family doc and Head nurse" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Malpractice suits fall in Pennsylvania, easing insurance crisis" In a message dated 4/28/09 9:34:35 AM, annam@uic.edu writes: > Amazingly enough though, some anti-vaccinators whose kids get > a preventable disease are somehow proud of the fact.  They are just a > strange bunch. > Well, just remember that Mother Nature helps out here, just like she does in OB. MOST kids who get vaccine-preventable diseases recover and do just fine. [I remember my episode of chicken pox when I was about 3 or 4. No big deal.] You can recklessly allow your children to get all sorts of diseases and they'll PROBABLY live to tell about it. The devil's in the ... no, not the details, it's in the statitstics. There is a certain NOT INSIGNIFICANT number of kids who will die or suffer severe sequelae, plus the affect on the population generally (e.g. Rubella spreading to pregnant women). So you can withhold vaccine from your kids, let them get sick, have them recover, and hold yourself up to be a hero. But in the long run, the numbers catch up with Society and we have the pre-vaccine morbidity and mortality that we were trying to prevent in the first place. [Iron lungs, anyone?] The bottom line is one that is common with politics, especially nowadays. The risk of the "natural course" of the disease is X, and the risk of the vaccine is Y. If X>>Y, then the vaccine is a no-brainer. That's where the science is. But when you politicize the issue, you find ways (via celebrity spokespeople, talking heads, etc.) to falsely (as far as scientifically) RAISE Y so that the ratio is lopsided the other way. They your talking head proudly holds up the false data and claims the moral high ground -- "For the children!!!" Joe P. web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Non-reassuring tracing in latent phase Family doc and Head nurse" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Malpractice suits fall in Pennsylvania, easing insurance crisis"

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