Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots

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Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots

Jan Drew wrote:
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Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots


Prominent doesn't mean he offers good or scientifically valid advice.

"Jan Drew" wrote:

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Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots

Well, he'd be a ****ing idiot, wouldn't he?

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Jeff wrote:
Jan Drew wrote:
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Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots


Prominent doesn't mean he offers good or scientifically valid advice.

A quote from the article:

According to Dr. Miller, 'Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu shot'.

And this is from
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew..._shots_081201/

"We even have difficulty getting more than 50 per cent of doctors and
nurses to be immunized against the flu. ..." [Canada's chief public
health officer Dr. David] Butler-Jones said.

So, people who know better tend not to get a flu shot. Now, what advice
is scientifically valid?

Mike wrote:
Jeff wrote:
Jan Drew wrote:
http://darthchaosofrspw.wordpress.co...nst-flu-shots/


Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots


Prominent doesn't mean he offers good or scientifically valid advice.

A quote from the article:

According to Dr. Miller, 'Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu
shot'.

And how do we know that that figure is accurate? What is his source?

And this is from
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew..._shots_081201/


"We even have difficulty getting more than 50 per cent of doctors and
nurses to be immunized against the flu. ..." [Canada's chief public
health officer Dr. David] Butler-Jones said.

So, people who know better tend not to get a flu shot. Now, what advice
is scientifically valid?

Some people do stupid things, even doctors and nurses.

Jeff

"Jeff" wrote in message
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Jan Drew wrote:
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Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots


Prominent doesn't mean he offers good or scientifically valid advice.

Well, he does not lie as you do, Putz.

Neither are you a kid's doc.

Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the
University of Washington, recommends avoiding the flu shot and taking
vitamin D instead. According to Dr. Miller, "Seventy percent of doctors do
not get a flu shot."


Health officials say that every winter 36,000 people will die from it. But
the National Vital Statistics Reports compiled by the CDC show that only
1,138 deaths a year occur due to influenza alone -- more than 34,000 of the
"36,000? flu deaths are actually pneumonic and cardiovascular deaths.


There is also a lack of evidence that young children benefit from flu shots.
In fact, a systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6
to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective
than a placebo. But there is also a risk of harm from the flu vaccine
itself, particularly from the mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde it
contains.

Sources:
Eco Child's Play November 18, 2008

New Studies Show the Flu Shot Does Not Work

A recent study published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric &
Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu
had no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two
recent flu seasons.

Another large-scale, systematic review of 51 studies, published in the
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2006, also found no evidence the
flu vaccine is any more effective for children than a placebo.


Additionally, no studies have conclusively proven that flu shots prevent
flu-related deaths among the elderly, even though this is one of the key
groups to which they're pushed.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states:


"In some years when vaccine and circulating strains were not well-matched,
no vaccine effectiveness can be demonstrated in some studies, even in
healthy adults. It is not possible in advance of the influenza season to
predict how well the vaccine and circulating strains will be matched, and
how that match may affect the degree of vaccine effectiveness."


So let's sum things up. When you get the flu shot, it may or may not protect
you against the flu. Further, recent studies suggest the shot is largely
ineffective for two of the key populations to which it's pushed: children
and the elderly.

What you CAN be sure of when you get the flu shot is that you'll be injected
with a laundry list of hazardous ingredients, which are included as
additives to the vaccines.

Flu Shot Additives are Well-Known Toxins

Two-thirds of the vaccines made for the 2008-09 flu season contain full-dose
thimerosal, which is 49% mercury by weight, according to Dr. Miller. Mercury
is a neurotoxin, with a toxicity level 1,000 times that of lead.

Still, each flu shot contains 25 micrograms of mercury, which amounts to a
mercury content of 50,000 part per billion -- 250 times more than the
Environmental Protection Agency's safety limit.

And that's not all. Dr. Miller points out the other substances in flu shots,
all of which are known to be harmful to health, especially for children:


.. Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent is used to inactivate the
virus.
.. Aluminum, added to promote an antibody response, is a neurotoxin that may
play a role in Alzheimer's disease.
.. Triton X-100 (a detergent)
.. Polysorbate 80

.. Carbolic acid
.. Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
.. Gelatin
.. Various antibiotics such as neomycin, streptomycin, and gentamicin that
can cause allergic reactions


Feel free to prove me wrong by posting your current medical license.

"Peter Bowditch" wrote:

snip vulgarity

Jan Drew wrote:

"Jeff" wrote in message
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Jan Drew wrote:
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Prominent Physician Advises Against Flu Shots


Prominent doesn't mean he offers good or scientifically valid advice.

Well, he does not lie as you do, Putz.

I don't lie. And my name isn't Putz. Nice personal attacks.

Garbage deleted.