Just a quickie (you won’t feel a thing)
November 28th, 2008 | 
Author: Thanks to media mass hysteria about the perfectly safe MMR vaccine we’re losing herd immunity.
Thanks guys, thanks a fucking bunch.
(PS if anyone can get me the number of newspaper articles on the subject it’d make an interesting mashup – I’ve only found out 122 for 1998; and 1257 for 2002)
(Edit: Many many thanks to Tom, here’s an updated graph)
Note that great big red line crashing down to almost zero? That’s the number of rubella cases dropping thanks to MMR. Don’t worry though, rubella cases are rising again. Oh, and I couldn’t fit mumps in because of the 43,000 cases in 2005.
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Sheesh, I go away for a couple of days and miss a corker of a debate*. I almost feel for FrMaRiRoLu because she’s shouting rubbish against a well thought out and logical argument and our current form of “society” she should at least be allowed to claim that her human rights require that her badly thought out opinion has more weight than actual science.
Hey, FrMaRiRoLu, why not get yourself a publicist (I hear that Max Clifford has a bit more spare time these days) and then get lots of articles in the ‘papers’ which bleat on about how you have been victimized and discriminated against because you are thick yet have fought intelligence at every corner to get your message of ignorance heard**.
Hope this helps, back to the beach for me.
* Actually it’s not a debate because in a debate you normally expect two sides to have something intelligent to say.
** That’s ‘heard’, love, not ‘herd; woe betide I use a word that offends you. On a side note please stop using the term ‘woman’ to describe yourself because I know lots of intelligent and lovely women and it is offensive to be for the same word to be used to describe them and you at the same time.
May I draw FraMeBackward’s attention to the following link:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/build.html
They’re watching you, Frances; maybe we haven’t heard a response from you because the government has already deleted your account for speaking the undeniable truth about vaccines!
Now quick, whilst tinfoil is on buy one get one free from Tesco’s!
And is that “Top” Dr Wakefield the one who’s currently up before the GMC’s Fitness To Practice Panel? The same “Top” Dr Wakefield whose co-authors stated “We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between (the) vaccine and autism”?
Or some other “Top” Dr Wakefield who *isn’t* being paid by the legal representatives of parents who believed their children had been harmed by MMR?
Ah, you mean the “Top” Andrew Wakefield, who received £435,000 in legal aid?
That’s got to be the ‘top’ Andrew Wakefield that’s been in the news a lot this week? “Callous, dishonest, unethical”? That ‘top’ Andrew Wakefield?