Benefits of Vaccination Joseph Albietz

An excerpt from the Anit-Anti Vax Discussion Panel at The Amaz!ng meeting 7 in Las Vegas.

More information about the meeting: www.amazingmeeting.com

Joe Albietz Bio:
Joseph A. Albietz III, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Denver, specializing in Pediatric Critical Care. He is fascinated by reality in general (especially when it has a strong geek factor), and offended by any attempt to distort, obfuscate, deny, or exploit our attempts to understand it. His primary skeptical interest is protecting children from medical quackery, and preventing it from infiltrating our academic centers and medical schools.

More links to vaccination:
Harriet Hall: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=1296

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[MetroidStar890]

No, they contain dead samples of current viruses so our immune systems can adjust and adapt to the proteins found within the viruses. Sometimes live virus is contained inside certain vaccines, but those are generally the same risk factor, which is present but remarkably low. Vaccines are helpful and necessary to protect public health.

[Stromatolite577]

Sad. Sad but common. Shouldn't you be worried that the "Illuminati" or some other boogymen are going to get you? Being insulted by a child like mind such as yours poses no worries for me. Now really buzz off and get a life. What you say wasn't interesting even at the begining.

[gadionson1]

nice video....

[BartBVanBockstaele]

@stbays I hope so too. But I doubt it very much. Some people simply can't accept reality. And maybe, just maybe, we need them. By bringing forth their crackpot ideas, they force us to make really, really, really sure that the science is right. In a way, these crackpots are voluntarily laying down their lives (and, unfortunately, the lives of their children) so that we (and our children) may live.

[BartBVanBockstaele]

@stbays I am of the same opinion. Which makes me wonder about the nature of "opinion": is believing a fact really an opinion? Vaccines work. Some of them work incredibly well. As for the mercury, this is essentially a non-issue. We are talking about such ridiculously small amounts that they are meaningless. Second, there is no mercury in vaccines. There is thimerosal/thiomersal. This is not mercury, in much the same way that hemoglobin is not iron, and that table salt is not chlorine.

[BartBVanBockstaele]

@MindofaJedi Fact: not disinfecting your food will kill you. Fact: disinfecting your food will kill you. Which part was crazy? None: the affirmations are simply so incomplete and general that they are meaningless. As are yours.

[BartBVanBockstaele]

@BartBVanBockstaele On the other hand, the anti-vaxers make us waste scarce resources that are now not available for more urgent tests. That is not good. Also, with anti-vaxers, you can't win. If you don't test anymore they accuse you of suppressing a horrifying reality, if you do test at their urging, they use that as "proof" that there is a hidden horrible truth after all..

[stbays]

@BartBVanBockstaele

Some people can be a bit weird. Though I think it's not that just some people are weird. I think all people have their subject that makes them seem weird.

Hopefully one day we can put the whole vax thing down once and for all.

[stbays]

@BartBVanBockstaele

BTW, in case you're wondering, I am pro-vax. I think they've done a lot of good and saved millions of lives. I also think you get more mercury from a can of tuna then you get from all the vaccinations combined. I also do not believe they cause Autism.

[BartBVanBockstaele]

@stbays I completely agree. On the one hand, it is good to do supplementary testing. After all, we never know enough. However, given the way we register adverse effects and effectiveness, we can also say that tests simply continue after approval, which is precisely the only way to find out about very rare adverse effects. People are somewhat unrealistic to expect the prediction of a 1/100,000 adverse effect in a test on 2,000 patients ^_^

[stbays]

@BartBVanBockstaele

A thought hit me. One reason these test are being done on a product that's considered safe is the entire "anti-vax" movement has been demanding further tests. If that hadn't happened, the test would most likely be over and done with.

[BartBVanBockstaele]

@stbays I just -sort of- retracted the comment you were reacting to. While my comment was valid, it is simply not a valid reply to the comment preceding it. I am puzzled about what happened here.