David:
The websites you link to are not, I expect you will agree, exactly objective. The curves are for death rate. As most of the diseases in question are not mortal in themselves, it is not surprising that mortality rates were falling for a long time as clinical practice and epidemic handling improved (another credit to modern medicine). The core of the matter is that we no longer NEED those practices because the diseases have become extremely rare.
As for your own experiences:
First of all, you will probably get a large proportion of people who, for various reasons, are dissatisfied with mainstream medicine, so I don't think you can extrapolate your findings to the population in general.
Secondly: What is your medical education? What examination methods are you using? How can you ascertain that the problems you see are due to vaccination?
This goes for your personal experience too. But I will concede that your complications might be due to the vaccination; hepatitis B is one of the risky vaccines. When using such vaccines, one must weigh the risks of the vaccine against the risk of getting the disease.
I have looked into this myself a couple of years ago before a journey to Asia. Some sources recommended vaccination against hepatitis B, but seing the risks and realizing that my lifestyle would make the risk of getting the disease remote, I decided against vaccination.
Where I work, we are offered free vaccination against flu every autumn. The risks with the flu vaccine are small, but I never take it, since getting flu is after all merely an inconvinience for a healthy person.
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We are STILL, after many decades, waiting for a randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trial establishing the value of vaccines, but the pharmaceutical industry, the main provider of research funds (in fact it has now more blatantly taken over the research), will not do it, and amazingly justifies this by saying that to do it they would have to deny the vaccine to the control group, which is supposedly unfair to those people! Thus we are given a circular argument.
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AM I the only one who sees the deep irony of this on a homeopathy board?
Hans
[ 03. November 2003, 07:57: Message edited by: MRC_Hans ]