Without evidence of benefit, an intervention should not be presumed to be beneficial or safe.

- Rogue Medic

One Injection (Flu Shot Anthem) from ZDoggMD

Do we need some singing doctors to help convince us that the flu shot is an important way to protect ourselves and those around us from the flu?

ZDoggMD has the answer –
 
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So we’re hoping that this video raises awareness about the importance of our seasonal influenza vaccination. Myths about flu shot, dispelled:

Flu Shot Causes Flu: nope. Inactivated viral fragments in the vaccine don’t cause the flu. The virus is deader than Tupac, yo. You may get some localized soreness and low grade fever/muscle aches from the immune response to the vaccine (a good thing), but that ain’t flu. Like any vaccine, there are rare severe side effects, but the benefits of mass vaccination outweigh these by far.

Flu Shot Don’t Work: untrue. Flu shot is an effective way to produce complete or partial immunity to the covered influenza strains. Obviously, no vaccine is 100% effective, but even a partially effective vaccine has huge benefits when we’re talking about something nasty that can be prevented, like the flu.

I Don’t Get Sick, So I Ain’t Gettin’ the Shot: OK, and I bet your s**t don’t stink either, smarty pants! Up to 50% of people with documented influenza viral infection have no symptoms. Yet they can in theory spread the virus to our most vulnerable, like little kids and the elderly. So vaccinate yourself, because it’s about Community Immunity![1]

Maybe we need a bit more of the kind of information that an infectious disease specialist would provide.

Dr. Mark Crislip provides excellent unbiased information about vaccines.[2]

Dr. Crislip is entertaining and very informative.

What we do not need is advice from the fraud known as Andrew Wakefield –
 

 

This is what a fraud looks like.
 

An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study — and that there was “no doubt” Wakefield was responsible.

“It’s one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors,” Fiona Godlee, BMJ’s editor-in-chief, told CNN. “But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data.”[3]

Why do people listen to this dishonest and unethical person?

Because their beliefs are more important than reality.

We want to protect our children, but listening to dangerous people is a bad idea.

Andrew Wakefield, who has been stripped of his medical license and should be reported to the police if he is seen practicing medicine, is largely responsible for the scare tactics about vaccines.

According to BMJ, Wakefield received more than 435,000 pounds ($674,000) from the lawyers.[3]

Andrew Wakefieled received hundreds of thousands of pounds for his lies.

Money from lawyers who want to create the impression of harm, so they can sue.

Footnotes:

[1] One Injection (Flu Shot Anthem)
August 20, 2012
By ZDoggMD
Article and YouTube

[2] QuackCast 45. A review of the the alleged side effects of the third greatest invention of all time. After clean water and the flush toilet. This is a re-recording of a lecture I gave to the Portland OFR and CFI.

Slides of the talk can be downloaded from this page as KEY or PPT files.

Page with links to all podcasts as mp3 downloads

[3] Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 5, 2011 8:14 p.m. EST
Article

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