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Default Vaccine Challenge Remains Unchallenged

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:47:09 +0100, Peter Parry wrote:

Her inability to understand
statistics is widely commented upon and Stephen Basser described her
incompetent work on Japanese rates of SIDS as "At best sloppy, and at
worst blatantly dishonest.”


Stephen Basser is good.

Stephen Basser in "the Skeptic", Vol 17 No 1, in "Anti-immunisation sca The
inconvenient facts":

http://www.skeptics.com.au/journal/1997/1_immunise.htm

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51. MMWR. Summary of Notifiable Diseases MMWR 1991 Vol 41 No 55.

Measles

Table 3 lists the number of cases of measles
and reported deaths from measles
for the years 1960-69 in the USA. 51

Year Cases Deaths Ratio
1960 441,703 380 1:1162
1961 423,919 434 1: 977
1962 481,530 408 1:1180
1963 385,156 364 1:1058
1964 458,083 421 1:1088
1965 261,904 276 1: 949
1966 204,136 261 1: 782
1967 62,705 81 1: 774
1968 22,231 24 1: 926
1969 25,826 41 1: 629

Table 3.
Measles cases and related deaths in the USA, 1960-69.

What these figures demonstrate is a period of no significant
change in cases or deaths (1960-64) followed by a period of
marked decline (1965-69). Anyone with even a rudimentary
knowledge of epidemiology would look at these figures and
hypothesize that something occurred around about 1963-64
that resulted in a marked decline in the number of cases
and deaths from measles.

What happened at this time? Measles immunisation was
introduced in the USA in 1963-64.

Dr Scheibner, not surprisingly, does not report these
figures, but she does claim that:
...vaccination against measles is totally ineffective
and

measles occurs irrespective of and despite vaccination. 2(p82)
[emphasis added]

If measles immunisation is "totally ineffective" then I
would be interested in her explanation for the above figures,
and for the experience in Finland, where a nationwide
immunisation program resulted in a 99% decrease in the
incidence of measles.52
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The column "ratio" I added. It is very interesting to see that change in values.

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