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Stuffysays's avatar

I think it was Prof Angus Dalgleish the other day who said that any vaccine that needs 3 shots clearly doesn't work!

I don't know about everyone else here but I used to believe that vaccines against the big killer diseases were brilliant but now I am full of doubt. My mother used to talk of whole families being taken away in the middle of the night with diptheria (in the 1930s) and I read once how you die in a terrible way from it. So a vaccine to prevent it seemed an excellent thing. Likewise, I knew people at school with calipers because of polio. I read enough Victorian novels to know how dreadful TB was.

So vaccines seemed amazing, sensible, life-saving things. And now I just don't know. When my kids were babies I had arguments with doctors because I refused jabs that were for the non-killers. I figured you need a few illnesses so as to build up your immune system and my kids were fit and healthy.

But now I question all of it. Are we just the lucky ones who had vaccinations without side effects? Where did those old diseases go if the vaccines didn't work - it can't all be down to clean water and more food can it? Or can it?

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Aliss Terpstra's avatar

You may have heard about the Ottawa policewoman who started investigating the dramatic increase in SIDS deaths by asking the mothers about whether mother or baby had recently gotten shots. She got suspended for even asking.

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