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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: "cathyb"
Date: 24 Sep 2005 04:44:35 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.med, misc.health.alternative, misc.kids, uk.people.health, talk.politics.medicine
PeterB wrote:
> 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,

Oops. Except that he never provided any evidence at all that 'vaccine
bias' actually exists. It's not a term that shows up even in a google
search in the sense that Peter uses it. He made it up to try and
explain why measles virtually disappeared in less than half a decade.

He thinks that all doctors and parents in the USA suddenly refused to
identify measles when they saw it all of a sudden.

Its only one of the several fictions he came up with to explain the
disappearance of measles.

> such a study would have to be performed in a third world nation to be
> meaningful.
> 
> PeterB


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