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   ahab said, 29 days ago

   Pop has a tin foil hat? Ahhh! pin cushion! Remember those bleeep air gun shots they would line you up for in the gymnasium.? Nightmares!

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   believecommonsense said, 29 days ago

   I don’t quite get the reason behind this fear. Is it anti-government now that Obama is prez? Is it just anti-science in general, and, if so, why this vaccine? Are people imagining some big conspiracy, and, if so, to do what?

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   fennec said, 29 days ago

   BCS, basically, people don’t have a clue about immunology, vaccines, pharmacology or much else that we do. It’s all magic to them. I haven’t a clue how to change this, if it can be changed. I found out in my two years of classroom teaching that there were a bunch of people who would never understand the things I was trying to teach…and they were bio majors! I try to be open about this…after all, I couldn’t write a bit of imaginative prose or a bit of music if my life depended on it, but my stuff seems so obvious (to me anyway). After all. isn’t it simply logic?

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   ahab said, 29 days ago

   Sadly, I have well educated people who still refuse care for serious illness. They want to try herbal or folk remedies first. I’ve had some success with patient led classes.The common thread of a layperson teaching works for diabetics and rheumatoid arthritis patients. I agree BCS that scientists are being ignored in this country. Have you gentlemen read The Republican War on Science yet? I had to put it down after a bit, too depressing.

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   motivemagus said, 29 days ago

   I’ve avoided the book too, ahab. I’ve followed the news long enough to see most of it as it happened, and I agree it’s too doggoned depressing seeing it all together.
   People forget that folk remedies faded out because science works better. Folk remedies that worked got taken up and straightened out by science, so they became reliable!

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   believecommonsense said, 29 days ago

   so my question to you three is this: In your opinion, is the current level of fear or suspicion of the H1N1 vaccine consistent with other vaccines or is it worse?

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   motivemagus said, 28 days ago

   I think worse. There’s input from the 1970s swine-flu problems and the modern idiocy of mistrusting vaccines as sources of autism, now thoroughly disproven, and it seems to be coming from across the political spectrum.

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   charlie555 said, 28 days ago

   There is also the fear of accidental or malicious contamination of the vaccine. Especially with such a rush to provide mass quantities.

   And the philosophy that anything that doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger, married to the philosophy that we can’t die before our time.

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   Corosive Frog said, 28 days ago

   http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/church-of-christ-scientist/

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    ahab said, 28 days ago

    I feel there is an unfounded fear of the H1N1 vaccine. We have close to 5000 world deaths so far from H1N1 influenza. Universally physicians across the country advocate inoculation for this illness. Only superstition,fear or ignorance can explain avoiding a preventative measure.

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    charlie555 said, 28 days ago

    Corosive Frog:

    I am not a fan of Christian Science (I believe God uses doctors and medicine also.) but do post this letter from a CS in the interest of hearing their side:

    http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/25/opinion/l-christian-science-case-tests-medical-belief-405190.html

    QUOTE:
    ”When someone dies after medical treatment we say, ”It was God’s will,” but when someone dies without medical treatment we say, ”The family is to blame for not choosing medical treatment.” When someone heals in a hospital we say, ”It was the treatment; praise the doctor!”; but when someone heals without medical treatment we say it was despite not having medical treatment.”

    It is my understanding that, statistically, CS’s do not die in any greater numbers than those who use doctors. (Not that it makes a difference to the argument for Faith.)

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    scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

    The federal govt’s swine flu vaccine back in the 70’s killed or crippled or otherwise massively screwed up far more people than the flu itself ever came close to.

    Yet they promised us back then they knew what they were doing, the vaccine was perfectly safe, yadda yadda yadda,

    No flu shot here. My health care plan is Christ Jesus. And yet even if I got the swine flu and died, I wouldn’t blame him for not “saving” me,

    He saved me on Calvary 2000ish years ago. Anything else is just an added bonus.

    “Thy will be done.”

    I know, you Godless leftists just can’t fathom folks like me. :D

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    DrCanuck said, 27 days ago

    scottfreitas said: “you Godless leftists just can’t fathom folks like me. ”

    DrCanuck diagnoses: Quite the contrary; modern psychiatry understands you perfectly.

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    motivemagus said, 27 days ago

    But what if Jesus wants you to get a vaccine?

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    omQ R said, 27 days ago

    ^ Then Jesus is obviously part of the Socialist conspiracy.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 27 days ago

    it’s my understanding that one of our first gifts was free will

    it’s so funny how we criticize each other’s uses of it

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    ahab said, 27 days ago

    www.cdc.gov. Very cute motive, snort!chortle.

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    P.J. Liggett said, 26 days ago

    Scott: I have no doubt that you are a religious man, but I have to question what is your religion. Jesus told his dIsciples that god is LOVE. He gave them TWO commandments; Love the lord God with all thy heart and soul and love thy neighbor as thyself. After reading all of the HATE that you spew forth in your postings I don’t know what your religion is other than it is not Christianity

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    NoFearPup said, 26 days ago

    Dr.Canuck , please explain…

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    DrCanuck said, 26 days ago

    Explain what?

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    omQ R said, 26 days ago

    I wanna know, too.
    ~waits.~