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Re: WARNING: Industry is Blogging These NewsGroups to Maintain Their Mon

Subject: Re: WARNING: Industry is Blogging These NewsGroups to Maintain Their Monopolies
From: "PeterB"
Date: 23 Sep 2005 20:38:30 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.med, misc.health.alternative, misc.kids, uk.people.health, talk.politics.medicine
Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com wrote:
> PeterB wrote:
> > I so appreciate your generosity.  I didn't retire from the debate about
> > vaccine, though.  The readers were told in item 3 of my "warning" post
> > that pharma bloggers work hard to have the last word, and so you did.
> > There is only so much time available to repeat oneself and show that
> > cathy was struggling to come up with shreds of evidence in defense of
> > vaccine.  My call for randomized, double-blind, long-term studies
> > proving the effectiveness of vaccine went unasnwered, by you, cathy, or
> > anyone else.  I understand, of course.  There are no such studies.
>
> COMMENT:
>
> Define "long-term."
>
> SBH

That depends on the viral agent being evaluated in response to vaccine.
 For measles vaccine, controls would need to be tracked for a period of
at least one year, preferrably 3 years.  Nowadays, whether vaccine bias
or vaccine explains the virtual non-existence of measles in the USA,
such a study would have to be performed in a third world nation to be
meaningful.

PeterB


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