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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2009-02-09 05:46 am
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What's western medicine done for you lately? Well, did you die of measles yet?

I know there are a lot of people out there who aren't sure about vaccinations, especially for kids. I always wondered where the idea that they cause autism came from. From a fraudulent study, as it turns out.

I think this one had so much traction because people like to distrust doctors.

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] drhoz for the link.

[identity profile] hissilliness.livejournal.com 2009-02-09 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I was visiting a friend who is a great Alternative Medicine believer a couple years after chemotherapy cured my leukemia and eventually I had to ask her to let up with the sneering at western medicine for a bit.