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Are you seriously suggesting that Wired Magazine is intentionally spreading viruses to people who visit their website? Really? A highly regarded professional magazine? SERIOUSLY!?!??!

You are a crank. And hysterical. And no, I'm not connected to any pharmaceutical company in any way (so you can drop the ol' worn out Big Pharma lie) ... I am only interested in the truth. And you should be too.

But it's obvious from your tone and your comments that you can no longer discuss this topic in a reasonable manner.

And it is "for the sake of the children": It highlights how anti-vaxers work, how they spread disinfo, and why. And it talks about what is happening in the U.S. right now because parents are being frightened (mostly by lies) away from vaccinating. Children have died and will continue to die.

"In May, The New England Journal of Medicine laid the blame for clusters of disease outbreaks throughout the US squarely at the feet of declining vaccination rates, while nonprofit health care provider Kaiser Permanente reported that unvaccinated children were 23 times more likely to get pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial disease that causes violent coughing and is potentially lethal to infants. In the June issue of the journal Pediatrics, Jason Glanz, an epidemiologist at Kaiser’s Institute for Health Research, revealed that the number of reported pertussis cases jumped from 1,000 in 1976 to 26,000 in 2004. A disease that vaccines made rare, in other words, is making a comeback. “This study helps dispel one of the commonly held beliefs among vaccine-refusing parents: that their children are not at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases,” Glanz says.

“I used to say that the tide would turn when children started to die. Well, children have started to die,” Offit says, frowning as he ticks off recent fatal cases of meningitis in unvaccinated children in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. “So now I’ve changed it to ‘when enough children start to die.’ Because obviously, we’re not there yet.” "

As for Karma: My Karma just ran over your Dogma. And that makes me happy.

April 20, 2010 - 9:43am

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