Re: Excerpt: Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade

On Jan 16, 8:54 pm, drcee...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 16, 8:09 pm, marcia <marcia1234...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Jan 16, 8:08 pm, Citizen Jimserac <Jimse...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 16, 10:55 am, marcia <marcia1234...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade

http://tinyurl.com/8raqp8

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: January 12, 2009

A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the
claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the
antivaccine movement in the United States.

But there will be no book tour for the doctor, Paul A. Offit, author
of “Autism’s False Prophets.” He has had too many death threats.

“I’ll speak at a conference, say, to nurses,” he said. “But I wouldn’t
go into a bookstore and sign books. It can get nasty. There are
parents who really believe that vaccines hurt their children, and to
them, I’m incredibly evil. They hate me.”

Dr. Offit, a pediatrician, is a mild, funny and somewhat rumpled 57-
year-old. The chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia, he is also the co-inventor of a vaccine against
rotavirus, a diarrheal disease that kills 600,000 children a year in
poor countries.

“When Jonas Salk invented polio vaccine, he was a hero — and I’m a
terrorist?” he jokes, referring to a placard denouncing him at a
recent demonstration by antivaccine activists outside the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

In recent years, the debate over vaccines and autism, which began in
fear and confusion, has hardened into anger. As Dr. Offit’s book
details, numerous studies of thimerosal, measles virus and other
alleged autism triggers in vaccines have been conducted, and hundreds
of children with diagnoses of autism have undergone what he considers
sham treatments and been “cured.” Both sides insist that the medical
evidence backs them.

As a result, “a few years ago this ceased to be a civil scientific
discourse and became about crucifying individuals,” said Dr. Gregory
A. Poland, chief of vaccine research at the Mayo Clinic, who says he
has had threats against his children. “Paul is a lightning rod, a
figure who goes charging into the fray.”

Those backing Dr. Offit say he was forced into the role. Opponents of
vaccines have held rallies, appeared on talk shows like “Oprah” and
“Imus in the Morning,” been the heroes of made-for-TV movies and found
a celebrity spokeswoman in Jenny McCarthy, the actress and former
Playboy model who has an autistic son. Meanwhile, the response from
public health officials has been muted and couched in dull scientific
jargon.

“If the surgeon general or the secretary of health or the head of the
C.D.C. would come out and make a really strong statement on this, I
think the whole thing would go away,” said Dr. Peter J. Hotez,
president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, who has a severely autistic
daughter whose disease, he argues, is genetic.

Seehttp://tinyurl.com/8raqp8fortherestof this article.

Marcia, good posting but you mucked up the thread title - it's a
double entendre.

I would suggest you change it.

Citizen Jimserac

Who am I to second-guess _The New York Times_? :)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Let's see.  Four of five comments come from the pharma shill pro-
vaccine denialists.  You know, those who claim there is no "credible"
"scientific" data that vaccines kill, harm, maim, and ruin the lives
of hundreds of thousands of humans, both children and adults ( esp.
war vets ).

No one I know ever claimed that, Dr. Pus4Brains


  I also notice that Novartis just received $486 million to produce a
muti-billion dollar value vaccine for the non-existant disease of bird-
flu.  Dang, what a money making racket.

Will the sheeple swallow more of the pro-vaccine denialists lies and
line up for their poison in the arm?  Only time will tell.

DrCee
You cannot secure nor restore health with pus or poisons.

.

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