On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:36:45 -0600, dpb wrote:

On 01/28/2015 10:53 AM, dpb wrote:
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You've been told a pile of malarkey. There's a tremendous
counter-culture arising that has virtually no knowledge of actual real
plant genetics or production practices that thrives on emotionalism and
sensationalism.

...

Much like the other bunch that have started the "no-vaccination"
movement out of an unwarranted fear. So now after 50+ years of no cases
of measles, whooping cough and other childhood (primarily) diseases we
have outbreaks popping up all around these yuppie havens primarily which
are the centers of the cults.

When there's too much affluence and too little needed to have to do to
survive, combined with an appalling lack of real education even in these
areas, then there's time for such nonsense to flourish when, for the
most part, folks are insulated from the negative effects of poor choices
and superstition and rumor replace scientific evidence.

Particularly when the concept of vaccination came from seeing that
those who caught cow pox, a milder form of small pox did not catch the
more virulent disease. It was said that while Jenner was studying cow
pox a Milkmaid told him that she couldn't catch small pox because she
had had cow pox, so apparently the peasant knew about this before the
Rich Folk in the Big House did :-)


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Cheers,

John B.