Pediatricians want TV show banned

Xania · � #1 � 01-29-2008, 08:47 AM

A TV program which "perpetuates the myth that vaccines cause autism" should be banned, say pediatricians.

https://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/....ap/index.html

scorpiotiger · � #2 � 01-29-2008, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Xania

A TV program which "perpetuates the myth that vaccines cause autism" should be banned, say pediatricians.

https://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/....ap/index.html

well, this will ensure the show gets on. great publicity. and this is the theme of the show, a lawyer that goes up against the system.

I don't think this is the case here.. but sometimes I think new tv shows engineer conflict about the show, so it will be noticed and people will watch when it first airs.

Hey, I was up one night and saw they have an erotic home shopping network show. where they demo and hawk sex toys. from HSN/QVC to this..

scorpiotiger · � #3 � 01-29-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Xania

A TV program which "perpetuates the myth that vaccines cause autism" should be banned, say pediatricians.

https://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/....ap/index.html

it is interesting that they are targeting the flu vaccines.. and not the vaccines that are given routinely to children. guess that might have been tooo hot? or maybe they use the fact that flu vaccines still have mercury in them?

scorpiotiger · � #4 � 01-29-2008, 10:28 AM

Dr. Northrop's opinion on the cervical cancer vaccine (very popular woman's doctor):
https://www.oprah.com/health/yourbody...hrup_103.jhtml

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Should women in their 20s and 30s get the HPV vaccine?

The HPV vaccine has been making headlines. "It's been targeted toward younger females, 13 and 14, and I was wondering its effects and if it was worthwhile for females already sexually active in their 20s and 30s," Colleen asks.

So what is HPV? "Human papillomavirus. It's the venereal wart virus. But this vaccine came out to protect women against certain strains of HPV that are associated with cervical cancer," Dr. Northrup says. "That vaccine is of great interest to me because there are over 100 different HPV types and this vaccine only targets four of them, and although they are associated with cervical cancer, nobody has ever proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that HPV is the cause of cervical cancer."

Dr. Northrup says only 3,500 women a year die of cervical cancer. "And the number decreases every year, so we're doing very well with Pap smears and other screening tests. So you should keep having those," she says.

But Dr. Northrup has some apprehension about the vaccine itself. "I'm very concerned about vaccinating girls 9 and over, every single one of them, with two vaccines," she says. "And I'm a little against my own profession. My own profession feels that everyone should be vaccinated."

Dr. Northrup would rather see the attention HPV is receiving directed elsewhere. "You see HPV associated with abnormal Pap smears in women who are on immunosuppressant drugs who have had kidney transplants or who have HIV disease. So it seems that that virus is associated with cancer in those whose immune system is already depressed, you see. So it's like a marker for a depressed immune system. Where I'd put my money is getting everybody on a dietary program that would enhance their immunity, and then they would be able to resist that sort of thing."

I said this over a year ago, about the fact that this vaccine only targets a small percentage of possible viruses. women still can get HPV. and this is not brought out.. my friend was surprised when I told her this. and she is very sharp.. but was going by what she read in the papers, etc.

Mad Scientest · � #5 � 01-29-2008, 04:09 PM

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"That vaccine is of great interest to me because there are over 100 different HPV types and this vaccine only targets four of them, and although they are associated with cervical cancer, nobody has ever proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that HPV is the cause of cervical cancer."

That quote pretty much tells it all. I recall reading that the manufacture of this drug was, for some reason, having a hard time “selling” it.

So they sold the Texas state legislature that it was something that needed to be mandated for all grade school kids to “protect them from cancer”. Cause no expense is too great to protect the kiddies, right? Of course just coincidentally the drug manufacture would now have a market for a drug that they could not otherwise sell.

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