Hmm. I think I am pissed. I speek good tonight.

As you know from software, the default settings are what most users use, purely because they’re default. In our multicultural society, it seems very wrong to force any religion on any kids.

Filed away as something to be careful about for whenever I get around to having kids.

I just donwloaded and did used the soft Touchcopy.

Browse my iphone files to folder /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE

and just deleted the directory 100APPLE

Without desconnecting my iphone from the usb,did take somepictures,and the problem is fixed.

Just wish help somebody!!

First impression – it “almost” has the look of a conspiracy theorist email with various colours and boldings throughout. It is not a scientific reference by any means.

One of the first major statements on the list “There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunisation of children does more harm than good.” is cited as (42) but includes no reference to check this “great deal of evidence”.

On Hep B it says “A 1999 study concluded that “The increase in the number of cases of unexplained neonatal fever seems to be associated with the introduction of routine hepatitis B vaccination on the first day of life”. (60)”

Note that it says “seems to be”. It appears the link was investigated and dismissed in 2001. How old is this list???

One of the points listed, 13 deaths from Hib, is cited as a letter to CHOICE magazine in 2002. That’s quality science right there. It might be correct but that’s hardly a source worthy of reference.

The list draws a link between vaccines and autism a couple of times. This link has never been found.

Then I zoomed to the bottom of the list and saw it was essentially the precursor to a promotion for nice, warm, fuzzy, do-no-harm, alternative medicine. Indeed, homeopathy is promoted elsewhere on the site. Can I say “CAM-shill”?

I am neither a doctor nor a scientist and these were just the few things on the list I looked at. I imagine someone more knowledgeable than I, in either area, would tear the rest to shreds.

I don’t believe that I was judging parents who don’t vaccinate just parents who make uninformed decisions.

I agree with you on the cigarettes issue, personally I think the government needs to ban them or remove the excise from them as they are profiting from the sale quite handsomely.

I would be interested to read “Investigate before you vaccinate”, could you provide a link to it, I want to be sure I get the correct one.

As far as trusting the government is concerned, it is not so much the government as it is the medical profession I tend to trust. I know that individual doctors may not always be trustworthy and that the pharmaceutical industry have vested interests etc

I believe on the whole that the medical industry does have our best interests at heart and that vaccination has been shown time and again to be an effective tool in the war on disease. My wife’s father had polio as a child and was confined to a wheelchair for most of his life. I am grateful that we are free of such scourges in Australian and I would like to see it stay that way.

Last year I was listening to Dr Karl on Triple-J relating a story from the time that he was working at the children’s hospital in Sydney. He spoke of a couple who had decided against vaccinating their child against polio and had travelled to India on holidays. Unfortunately while in India the child contracted polio, I could hear in his voice how sad he was to have to tell the parents the news and explain the situation to them. That child will have to suffer for the rest of its life when a simple and low risk vaccination would likely have prevented the infection.

The bottom line in all medical procedures is that there are risks, I strongly believe that the well proven benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks. As a skeptic I’m open to discussion on all things but you need to be able to back up what you say with solid evidence.