The product insert for Merck's MMR-II vaccine says:
The growth medium for measles and mumps is Medium 199 (a buffered salt solution containing vitamins and amino acids and supplemented with fetal bovine serum) containing SPGA (sucrose, phosphate, glutamate, and recombinant human albumin) as stabilizer and neomycin.
I wonder if this is the same Medium 199, obviously without recombinant human albumin, invented in the late 1940s and absolutely crucial to the development of the Salk Polio vaccine? I'm pretty sure it is.
And this is a proud story for me, because I live within an hours drive of where medium was invented and the polio virus grown for the Salk vaccine trials of 1954. Connaught Research Laboratories has been located in a large campus at the northern edge of Toronto where I've driven by many times. Many readers will enjoy this link to a short history. Sooner or later, they've got to get something right. I just thought it was one building, but it is a whole campus. Today Connaught is part of Aventis Pasteur and they still do R and D work and vaccine production. I think this is the list of vaccines they make in Toronto.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Vaccines and SIDS
We know that an infant's or child's immune system isn't used up by receiving the vaccines on the schedule. We know that there is no problem with an infant's or child's immune system getting multiple vaccines at one time.
These issues are discussed in a book co-authored by Dr. Paul Offit. A great chapter is here.
The issue of SIDS and vaccines have been studied for many years. A recent discussion by the CDC is found here. l
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If those who oppose vaccination had their way, this is what would happen in 'rich' countries.
http://tinyurl.com/unvaccinated-rich-countries
These issues are discussed in a book co-authored by Dr. Paul Offit. A great chapter is here.
The issue of SIDS and vaccines have been studied for many years. A recent discussion by the CDC is found here. l
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If those who oppose vaccination had their way, this is what would happen in 'rich' countries.
http://tinyurl.com/unvaccinated-rich-countries
The Tone of My Comments at Huffington-Post
About The Tone of My Comments
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Doybia thinks it is wrong.
To parents who aren't sure.
Vaccination is safe and effective.
There were two concerns.
1. Does MMR vaccine cause Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)? No. The only suggestion came from a fraudulent 1998 study. Because of public concern much research was done, the conclusion: MMR doesn't cause ASD.
2. Does thimerosal in vaccines cause ASD? No, studies have proven that it doesn't. In any case, the concern was too much thimerosal (perhaps 175mcg) when many vaccines were given in a few months (because the body gradually gets rid of thimerosal in urine). Now, only the the annual flu vaccine has thimerosal. Once a year it is perfectly safe to get a 12.5mcg of thimerosal in the vaccine.
That's it. So why the anti-vaccination movement? Half of ASD parent don't blame vaccines. The other half choose to blame vaccines. There's no reason to pay any more attention to those parents who blame vaccines than those who don't. Neither group has any special knowledge.
Here's the result if those who oppose vaccination succeed http://tinyurl.com/unvaccinated-rich-countries Ask yourself if this is what you want.
I'm respectful of the parents who blame vaccines. I'm not respectful of the nonsense they've chosen to believe and the deaths and disability they cause. But the tone isn't the point. Do what's best for your child: And that's vaccination for a safer infancy, childhood and adulthood.
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Doybia thinks it is wrong.
To parents who aren't sure.
Vaccination is safe and effective.
There were two concerns.
1. Does MMR vaccine cause Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)? No. The only suggestion came from a fraudulent 1998 study. Because of public concern much research was done, the conclusion: MMR doesn't cause ASD.
2. Does thimerosal in vaccines cause ASD? No, studies have proven that it doesn't. In any case, the concern was too much thimerosal (perhaps 175mcg) when many vaccines were given in a few months (because the body gradually gets rid of thimerosal in urine). Now, only the the annual flu vaccine has thimerosal. Once a year it is perfectly safe to get a 12.5mcg of thimerosal in the vaccine.
That's it. So why the anti-vaccination movement? Half of ASD parent don't blame vaccines. The other half choose to blame vaccines. There's no reason to pay any more attention to those parents who blame vaccines than those who don't. Neither group has any special knowledge.
Here's the result if those who oppose vaccination succeed http://tinyurl.com/unvaccinated-rich-countries Ask yourself if this is what you want.
I'm respectful of the parents who blame vaccines. I'm not respectful of the nonsense they've chosen to believe and the deaths and disability they cause. But the tone isn't the point. Do what's best for your child: And that's vaccination for a safer infancy, childhood and adulthood.
Monday, December 14, 2009
A High Probability Heuristic for a more Informed Reader
A High Probability Heuristic for a more Informed Reader
Don't trust a quotation or an abstract that says or is interpreted to mean that vaccines caused ASD. And save some time trying to figure out what it means. Instead, google the name of the article or the names of the authors and read the criticism at one of the skeptical or science websites. Then decide what it means.
Don't trust a quotation or an abstract that says or is interpreted to mean that vaccines caused ASD. And save some time trying to figure out what it means. Instead, google the name of the article or the names of the authors and read the criticism at one of the skeptical or science websites. Then decide what it means.
New Study from the Slithy Toves Institute for Advanced Homeopathic Studies in Carroll, Indiana
Ergon, you're insight regarding the "homoeopathic miasm theory and genetic predispositions to illness, and found some interesting connections" has stood you in good stead.
A recent published study at the Slithy Toves Institute for Advanced Homeopathic Studies in Carroll, Indiana has shown that a careful new evaluation of Kent's work shows that the percentage of syccosis miasm to psora miasm is not fixed. And that for reasons that are unknown the change in percentage since 1980 is a close match for the increase in the rate of ASD.
So it isn't vaccines and it isn't whatever the 'scientists' believe it is, it is that something much more basic is changing. The underlying factor may be the increasing exposure of young men to pornographic images as computers and then the internet made it increasingly ubiquitous to them.
A recent published study at the Slithy Toves Institute for Advanced Homeopathic Studies in Carroll, Indiana has shown that a careful new evaluation of Kent's work shows that the percentage of syccosis miasm to psora miasm is not fixed. And that for reasons that are unknown the change in percentage since 1980 is a close match for the increase in the rate of ASD.
So it isn't vaccines and it isn't whatever the 'scientists' believe it is, it is that something much more basic is changing. The underlying factor may be the increasing exposure of young men to pornographic images as computers and then the internet made it increasingly ubiquitous to them.
Making Homeopathic Quality Water
Elsewhere I've argued that water quality is defined by a written standard it must meet and not by the way it is made.
Mr. Ullman disagrees. I think he may be right. So here's my process for making the homeopathic gold standard "Double Distilled water."
Method 1:
Gather together a Cheap tea kettle Cork Power drill 1/4 inch drill bit 1/4 inch copper tubing
Step one: Follow the directions at http://www
Step two: Pour distilled water from step one into kettle and repeat step one.
RESULT: Double Distilled Water
Method 2:
Step one: Buy a jug of steam distilled water. Mine's from Ice River Springs. It has some strange wording on it that reads Fluoride ion <0mg/L Dissolved Mineral Salts <2ppm
Step two. Pour water from jug into kettle of Method 1, step one and follow procedure of Method 1, step one.
By the homeopathic law of similars, the double distilled water of Method one is as good for homeopathic remedies as that of method 2.
Mr. Ullman disagrees. I think he may be right. So here's my process for making the homeopathic gold standard "Double Distilled water."
Method 1:
Gather together a Cheap tea kettle Cork Power drill 1/4 inch drill bit 1/4 inch copper tubing
Step one: Follow the directions at http://www
Step two: Pour distilled water from step one into kettle and repeat step one.
RESULT: Double Distilled Water
Method 2:
Step one: Buy a jug of steam distilled water. Mine's from Ice River Springs. It has some strange wording on it that reads Fluoride ion <0mg/L Dissolved Mineral Salts <2ppm
Step two. Pour water from jug into kettle of Method 1, step one and follow procedure of Method 1, step one.
By the homeopathic law of similars, the double distilled water of Method one is as good for homeopathic remedies as that of method 2.
Science and Academics is Not a Gentle Game
Science and Academic Medicine is Not a Gentle Business
One of the problems with the vaccines cause every evil in the world movement is that they don't understand how science and academics work.
In particular, that it isn't a very gentle game. Nothing makes that clearer than the way that Albert Sabin (who developed the oral polio vaccine) did everything he could, in every forum he could find, to attack the research and the professional reputation of Jonas Salk, who developed the injected polio vaccine.
That's part of the way science and academic medicine work. It doesn't have to be as extreme and Salk and Sabin, but it is necessary so that theories can be examined and a consensus develop as to which research is good and which is bad.
But the vaccines cause everything bad movement believes that consensus and the sometimes nasty way it develops isn't for them. Over 1700 of them have signed a pledge that includes a clause that says it is wrong for those who disagree with Dr. Andrew Wakefield to attack his research and his professional reputation. See http://www
4. We support all scientists, including Dr. Andrew Wakefield, in the freedom to conduct medical research into the biological mechanisms for vaccine-related immune and brain dysfunction, including autism, without being attacked personally and professionally by industry, government, and organized medicine. We support scientific discovery, freedom to investigate, and freedom to speak in science.
One of the problems with the vaccines cause every evil in the world movement is that they don't understand how science and academics work.
In particular, that it isn't a very gentle game. Nothing makes that clearer than the way that Albert Sabin (who developed the oral polio vaccine) did everything he could, in every forum he could find, to attack the research and the professional reputation of Jonas Salk, who developed the injected polio vaccine.
That's part of the way science and academic medicine work. It doesn't have to be as extreme and Salk and Sabin, but it is necessary so that theories can be examined and a consensus develop as to which research is good and which is bad.
But the vaccines cause everything bad movement believes that consensus and the sometimes nasty way it develops isn't for them. Over 1700 of them have signed a pledge that includes a clause that says it is wrong for those who disagree with Dr. Andrew Wakefield to attack his research and his professional reputation. See http://www
4. We support all scientists, including Dr. Andrew Wakefield, in the freedom to conduct medical research into the biological mechanisms for vaccine-related immune and brain dysfunction, including autism, without being attacked personally and professionally by industry, government, and organized medicine. We support scientific discovery, freedom to investigate, and freedom to speak in science.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
PROOF THAT THE CREED OF THE CHURCH OF ANDY WAKEFIELD, SCIENTIST IS FALSE
PROOF THAT THE CREED OF THE CHURCH OF ANDY WAKEFIELD, SCIENTIST IS FALSE
Many of the individuals and organizations in the vaccines cause autism movement have signed a 10 point statement in support of Dr. Andrew Wakefield that reads like a religious creed where Dr. Wakefield is God. It begins
"We declare:
1. Dr. Wakefield is a man of honesty, integrity, courage, and proven commitment to children and the public health.
2. Dr. Wakefield’s research is rigorous, replicated, biologically valid, clinically evidenced, corroborated by published, peer-reviewed research in an abundance of scientific disciplines, and consistent with children’s medical problems."
http://www.wesupportandywakefield.com/
It's a false creed.
Professor Bertus Rima had been working on measles for "15 years before Andy started...I was quite interested to hear what he had to say." In 1992, he and other measles virologists met with Wakefield to learn what he had found in laboratory studies. Rima "came to the conclusion that whatever material was put in front of me was highly selective. When criticisms were made, they were not followed up...that developed into a situation where I became somewhat frustrated by the fact that criticism that was leveled at the data that we were shown really wasn't followed up."
"And then essentially in 1995, we had a situation where one of his MD students produced an abstract for a meeting I was attending and asked me whether I wanted to be a coauthor on it and I asked so, first of all, I would like to ask what the data were. And when data were presented to me ...and so essentially that would have indicated contamination at that time. And when that wasn't retracted, then I formally withdrew my collaboration with Andy Wakefield..."
ftp://autism.uscfc.uscourts.gov/autism/snyder/transcripts/day04-cor.pdf at pages 843A-844A
These are not the actions of a man of integrity.
So who is going to be the first to remove their name from the creed and create a web site where there will be a plausible statement in support of Dr. Wakefield?
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That's how I posted this at Huff-Post
This is just amazing.
Wakefield has an idea. He does some research and then presents it to the UK measles virology community. He shows them what he says is measles virus. They tell him that it isn't because, among other things, it isn't the right size. And he doesn't respond to the criticism.
And this repeats.
Many of the individuals and organizations in the vaccines cause autism movement have signed a 10 point statement in support of Dr. Andrew Wakefield that reads like a religious creed where Dr. Wakefield is God. It begins
"We declare:
1. Dr. Wakefield is a man of honesty, integrity, courage, and proven commitment to children and the public health.
2. Dr. Wakefield’s research is rigorous, replicated, biologically valid, clinically evidenced, corroborated by published, peer-reviewed research in an abundance of scientific disciplines, and consistent with children’s medical problems."
http://www.wesupportandywakefield.com/
It's a false creed.
Professor Bertus Rima had been working on measles for "15 years before Andy started...I was quite interested to hear what he had to say." In 1992, he and other measles virologists met with Wakefield to learn what he had found in laboratory studies. Rima "came to the conclusion that whatever material was put in front of me was highly selective. When criticisms were made, they were not followed up...that developed into a situation where I became somewhat frustrated by the fact that criticism that was leveled at the data that we were shown really wasn't followed up."
"And then essentially in 1995, we had a situation where one of his MD students produced an abstract for a meeting I was attending and asked me whether I wanted to be a coauthor on it and I asked so, first of all, I would like to ask what the data were. And when data were presented to me ...and so essentially that would have indicated contamination at that time. And when that wasn't retracted, then I formally withdrew my collaboration with Andy Wakefield..."
ftp://autism.uscfc.uscourts.gov/autism/snyder/transcripts/day04-cor.pdf at pages 843A-844A
These are not the actions of a man of integrity.
So who is going to be the first to remove their name from the creed and create a web site where there will be a plausible statement in support of Dr. Wakefield?
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That's how I posted this at Huff-Post
This is just amazing.
Wakefield has an idea. He does some research and then presents it to the UK measles virology community. He shows them what he says is measles virus. They tell him that it isn't because, among other things, it isn't the right size. And he doesn't respond to the criticism.
And this repeats.
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