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Saturday, February 23, 2019

Vaping: Tobacco's Anti-Vax

For some time I have watched how the "vested interests" such as Google have demonized the idea of questioning vaccinations (see this for example).  I think there are strong parallels between this and the demonization of vaping.

First, though, let me be clear:


MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccines clearly contribute to the trend above (see this).  I don't think there is any scientific question that there is a causal relationship here.  Nor do I believe that their judicious use is a problem.

The MMR vaccine has existed since the 1960's.  I recall at the time my mother agonizing over whether the risk of the vaccine was worth the benefit.  The vaccine won out.  No one in my direct family contracted these diseases though older cousins (by only a few years and a few miles) had.

So what about anti-vax?

The real scientific question comes from the fact that today a child receives about five (5) times as many vaccines as provided in the 1960's (from this for example):


I think the real question, evaded by Google and all the rest, is one of quantity.

Five drinks on a night out is okay, twenty five may not be.

Seems like common sense, does it not?

When my children were small in the late 1970's and early 1980's it was clear that far too many vaccines were "required."  Outside the "medical" list above you also saw various random requirements for duplicate vaccines required for participation in things like "school" or "sports."

Though we dutifully took our children to the pediatrician to be vaccinated the school would not accept this evidence and required duplicate vaccinations.

So instead of five times think seven (7) or eight (8) the 1960's level for vaccines.

(And don't forget that vaccine makers, since the mid-1980's, are no longer liable for product problems.  Little wonder we are where we are.)

Today I am unaware of any studies looking at the effects of vaccines and their chemical constituency relative to vaccine quantity.

Instead real scientific questions about vaccines (is too many okay, what's the limit to dosages of the chemicals used, etc.) is lumped into conspiracy theory.

And anti-vax is demonetized just like the Orwellian FDA and nicotine web edits I described previously.

And recently I discovered videos of vaping disappearing from youtube.

Little wonder.

We live in Orwell's 1984.

A 1984 run by Facebook, Google, and all the rest.

AI and algorithms can now generate fully believable yet false narratives (images, text - see this for example).

What you see from these places "on line" are monetized lies and propaganda: you're the victim of sock puppets.

And so too with vaping.

Repeat it's bad long enough and people will believe it.

Would you go to a doctor, or use a parachute or drive a car if the doctor or manufacture had no responsibility for their "product" whatsoever?

Of course not.

Flu shots, by any rigorous scientific standards are simply hogwash.  Magical thinking by the do gooders who are smarter than you.

Yet this is the pablum we are served.

So too for vaping.  More and more medical studies every day show vaping superior to combustion tobacco in every way.

Yet Google removes it.

Facebook won't advertise it.

Who is really interested in your health?

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