Sometimes idiocy occurs naturally, and sometimes it takes a lot of work to happen. Case in point, the folks over at “Natural News,” promoting the idea that flu vaccines are “worthless.”
The article starts out with a tenable premise, but then works hard to come up with this asinine statement:
Consumer health advocate Mike Adams, author of “Conquering the Common Cold,” called flu vaccine shots “one of the greatest medical cons perpetrated on the populations of the world,” and questioned new U.S. policies pushing the vaccines on young children and expectant mothers.
“Flu shots only prevent colds in about 1 percent of people who get them, making them 99 percent useless,” Adams said. “They also inject unhealthy substances such as mercury preservatives directly into tissues, poisoning the patient with a chemical burden that accumulates with each flu shot.”
Dear Mr. Adams, as a “consumer health advocate,” you suck ass.
Do you even know the difference between the viruses that cause the common cold and influenza viruses? Because they aren’t the same. How about using something like Wikipedia as a start to understand that the common cold is caused by rhinoviruses and coronaviruses. Influenza viruses, on the other hand, are an entirely different line of illness.
In fact, the basic scientific premise is pretty much spelled out for you:
Although it is often confused with the common cold, influenza is a much more severe disease and is caused by a different type of virus.
The least you could do, as a “consumer health advocate,” is address this simple fact. I’m not a scientist by profession, but I’ve studied enough biological science to understand this basic premise of virology.
Influenza vaccinations are meant to treat only a single strain of an influenza virus. They are not a panacea for all influenza viruses. If we were to extrapolate your thinking, then you should argue for not receiving the polio vaccine since it doesn’t prevent the flu. However, I think that Jonas Salk may disagree.
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1 THE Michael // May 22, 2009 at 6:17 am
Dear Mr. Madman, you are brilliant, if only because you actually seen things as though through my own eyes. Keep up the good work; I no longer feel alone in the universe.
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