The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation. . . . . There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines. "
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
There is no vaccine against stupidity.
Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
The world today has 6. 8 billion people. . . that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.
Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.
My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.
In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some readers the very idea that vaccines are anything but wonderful and life-saving may come as a surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one. After all, the general population pictures vaccines as one of modern medicine's best and brightest moments, saving literally millions from the scourge of diseases like poliomyelitis and smallpox.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.
Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down.