vaccination

There is an existing thread on this but it's in the Politics forum, which isn't really the focus I wanted. I keep reading of mothers wanting to have chicken pox parties. They believe that the immunity conferred by having the disease is superior to the immunity conferred by having the vaccine...

My 2-month old daughter received her 1st round of vaccinations this week for polio, meningitis, whooping cough, diptheria, etc. I fully accept the necessity of infant vaccination but there a couple of questions I'd like to put to anyone who is knowledgable in the matter. 1. The needle gauge...

Those whacky guys at Stormfront... :dl:

We've not done this for a while, bu the prize goes to Sheri Nakken at OtherHealth; http://www.otherhealth.com/showthread.php?p=64100 She has fearlessly swallowed every piece of conspiracy theory and paranoid nonsense in medicine and washed it down with a good dose of magically enhanced water...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/07/27/child.vaccinations.ap/index.html A couple thoughts on this. First, despite all the anti-vaccination smokescreens, they still set the record for number of vaccinations. So one way or another, kids are getting the protection they should. Second, 81% is the...

From www.skeptics.com.au A warning to all parents. As mentioned on this site a couple of weeks ago, members of Australian Skeptics have uncovered the darker side of the so-called "alternative medicine" known as homeopathy. Attending the "Parents, Babies & Children's EXPO" in Sydney, we...

An outbreak at a christian school that is anti-vaccination. Wonderful... :( http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/30/rubella050430.html

I am currently trying to understand as much as I can about Homeopathic philosophy and how homeopathic practitioners relate this to eth real world. I have recently been discussing homeopathy with a colleague who takes pretty much all CAM claims at face value, and the issue of vaccinations came...