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Category: Vaccination
In this category I write about vaccinations and address concerns and misconceptions that some have. I also write about interesting new developments.
What they aren’t telling you about Toxicity
You’ve likely come across articles on Facebook or health blogs that warn about toxic chemicals in products. Typically they mention the name of the chemical, list the dangerous effects, maybe a personal story and tell you...
Avoiding the Echo Chamber
Test ideas by experiments and observations. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything. Accept these terms, and the cosmos...
Who decides the vaccination schedule?
It’s come to my attention that there seems to be a misunderstanding circulating of who exactly determines our children’s vaccination schedule. It seems that some are under the impression that it is the pharmaceutical companies...
Unsafe Thimerosal or Mercury in Vaccines?
Thimerosal (or thiomersal) in vaccines is probably one of the most brought up things in a conversation with people who are concerned with vaccination. So at the start it’s good to clarify that in the...
Elmo asks Surgeon General about vaccination
Elmo from Sesame Street has some concerns about vaccination which he talks over with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. Unfortunately there is a lot of mis-information regarding vaccinations on the internet and this is causing fear...
How do vaccines make us immune?
Having recently written about Edward Jenner and the first vaccine, it makes sense to ask the question, “How did the vaccine work?” Edward Jenner simply knew that giving someone the cowpox disease prevented an...
Edward Jenner and the first vaccine
This is the story of Edward Jenner, who saved more lives than the work of any other human being. His discovery eventually led to the eradication of smallpox that took 300 – 500 million people to...
Vaccinations and the Past that we Forgot
Smallpox with a mortality rate of 20 – 30% is what the girl in the photograph above has. It’s a shocking image of a terrible disease that few now alive have ever seen in existence (I’d...
