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| the 3rd Man... |
 Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:54 am |
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Steere, in an excerpt from a commencement address at Ohio Wesleyan,
states that the reason for the withdrawl of the vaccine was NOT "poor
sales" as has been previously, continuously reported...but a threat of
litigation.
Interesting, because normally, people do NOT withdraw, to my
experience, due to the threat of litigation...
...they withdraw because of a threat of litigation under which they
may have some possible EXPOSURE...they withdraw in the face of threats
from which they might potentially face a finding of liability.
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http://commencement.owu.edu/2008Congratulations.html
"But science says no. Diagnostic tests based on scientific studies
fail to
show evidence of Lyme disease in most of these patients. Additionally,
5 studies
of pain and fatigue syndromes following Lyme disease reported that
placebo
treatment with a sugar pill gave similar results as long-term
antibiotics. If you
ignore scientific reality, if you twist it, if you wish for a
particular answer, you will
miss Mars and drift in space. Physicians, like myself, have said
“scientific
evidence does not support giving antibiotics for years for Lyme
disease”. They
have been denounced, threatened, and harassed.
No single medical advance has had a greater impact on human health
than vaccines. Although a small percentage of individuals have serious
side
effects from vaccination, vaccines in general are much, much less
harmful than
the infections they prevent. However, as with the Lyme disease story,
vaccines
have become a vehicle to explain a host of poorly understood
illnesses. People
have claimed passionately that a vaccine causes autism. Class-action
lawsuits
resulting from these claims threaten the vaccine industry.
And this is what happened to the Lyme disease vaccine. Over the past
decade, two drug companies did extensive studies concerning the
efficacy and
safety of a newly developed Lyme disease vaccine for human use. In
1998, the
FDA licensed the vaccine. But the Lyme disease counterculture said
“vaccination for Lyme disease made my symptoms worse”. Despite a lack
of
scientific evidence that the vaccine caused harm, the manufacturer
withdrew it in
2002 primarily due to the threat of class-action lawsuits. When
science and
medicine are divorced, our efforts lead nowhere; we drift in space". |
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