Before I forget....
There have been a couple of good podcasts recently about the flu vaccine recently, as flu season bears down on us like a...big....bear.
The first is Brian Dunning's essay on vaccine ingredients. It's a polite, stripped down, no-nonsense fuck you to antivax loontards fuckholes like Mike Adams and Jenny "why doesn't pointing at a list convince big mean doctors?" McCarthy. In fact, I believe that Dunning addresses almost all of the shit Adams whines about in this graphic from his site:
If you can walk past Mike Adams on not kick him in the nuts after hearing this, you are a better person than I am. And you are always already a better person than Adams.
Secondly is a very special Skeptics' Guide to the Universe about the the flu. Listen to it with someone you love, won't you?
HJ
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1 comments:
I never signed up for either flu vaccine on the rationale that others probably need it more than I would. I'm not in a job around kids, the elderly or the public at large. I'm not in a risk category (so much as I can figure out). I'm also not sure how much of the H1N1 media storm is hype and how much is real statistics about likelihood of contracting it.
I did meet a girl this week who's not vaccinating her kids for anything on the fear of injecting them with formaldehyde. I looked into the risk factor based on that alone and it's pretty negligible. I think it's a bigger risk not to dose kids. Like we need all those fun whooping cough things going around like .. well, a plague.
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