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originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
Vaccines save life’s.
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
Fed up of rubbish like this, anti-vaxers are up there along with climate change deniers, flat earthers and the people who believe the moon landing was a hoax in levels of utter stupidity.
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
One doctor doesn’t represent the medical community who are of the consensus that vaccines save life’s
If the pharmaceuticals believe that vaccines save lives and bring a net health benefit, they have to prove that scientifically. So far they are not willing to, we need science, not assumption.
. The World Health Organization has the money and the vaccines it needs to stamp out the disease out once and for all — but it hasn't been able to finish the job. A major obstacle is Pakistan, where heavy opposition to vaccination programs in some regions has let polio regain a foothold.
The success of the smallpox eradication program is evidenced by the fact that many people today don't even remember how awful smallpox was. Caused by the Variola major virus, smallpox killed a third of people infected and over 300 million people in the 20th century alone. Even when people survived the disease, they often suffered blindness and disfigurement from the blisters caused by the disease. For five centuries, smallpox plagued the world until a massive endeavor that involved thousands and thousands of people, starting with the discovery of a smallpox vaccine in 1796 by Edward Jenner, continuing with the WHO agreeing in 1958 with the Soviet Union proposal to attempt global eradication, further continuing with a specific resolution in 1966 to end smallpox in ten years, and ending with the last known naturally occurring case in Merka Town, Somalia.
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
I ran a search for Dr Graham Downing on the General Medical Council which is the UK register for Doctors and his name isn't on it. "Doctor" isn't actually a protected title in the UK and a search of the GMC shows up no results for that name meaning that he is not a practicing medical doctor.
originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: hiddencode
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. The World Health Organization has the money and the vaccines it needs to stamp out the disease out once and for all — but it hasn't been able to finish the job. A major obstacle is Pakistan, where heavy opposition to vaccination programs in some regions has let polio regain a foothold.
edit on 11-10-2019 by hiddencode because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: hiddencode
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
I ran a search for Dr Graham Downing on the General Medical Council which is the UK register for Doctors and his name isn't on it. "Doctor" isn't actually a protected title in the UK and a search of the GMC shows up no results for that name meaning that he is not a practicing medical doctor.
I remember hearing in one of his presentations that he had a PhD in a medical subject, he is an expert in his field, not like a local doctor in a surgery.
Dr. Graham S. Downing is a consultant in Neuro-musculoskeletal & Functional Medicine. He graduated from King’s College London University where he trained in the clinical sciences and molecular biology and attended the Randall Institute as a research student whilst still under the Directorship of Dr Wilkins, Nobel prize winner for his co-discovery of DNA; and European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Surrey University where he received an MSc with a specialist area of research in psychoneuroimmunology in the clinical practice.
Dr. Downing was invited to read for a Ph.D at Oxford’s leading research institute, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology but decided on a clinical career instead. He is one of only two doctors in Europe that have received training at consultant level in diagnosis and treatment of internal medical disorders at the Texas Chiropractic College, USA; and advanced Wilderness medicine.
His specialist fields are neuro-musculoskeletal & functional Medicine (with a focus on fertility, endocrinology, infection and gastro-intestinal problems). He has produced science and clinical reports since February 1993 and medico-legal reports since April 2010 as an expert witness.
He is currently President and Director of Clinical Education for a European organisation that sets standards of clinical proficiency and trains healthcare providers, including medical doctors, chiropractors, osteopaths, physiotherapists, herbalists, homoeopaths, nutritionist, functional medicine doctors and other health disciplines to consultant level.
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
a reply to: hiddencode
If the pharmaceuticals believe that vaccines save lives and bring a net health benefit, they have to prove that scientifically. So far they are not willing to, we need science, not assumption.
Huh...
I guess that small pox vaccine then was just a myth?
EDIT to add: I ran a search for Dr Graham Downing on the General Medical Council which is the UK register for Doctors and his name isn't on it. In fact it shows no results whatsoever for that name suggesting that he never even has been registered because when you search for a actual real medical doctor it shows their status including if they have relinquished their registration to practice. "Doctor" isn't actually a protected title in the UK and so this guy could literally just be talking out of his arse hole without a GMC registration claiming to have been whatever the hell he wants despite it being utter crap.
originally posted by: hiddencode
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
A message on the GMC says that if you can't find them there it doesn't mean they are not registered. I just looked this up.
"Dr. Graham Downing – Consultant healthcare practitioner with areas of expertise in Neuro-musculoskeletal & Functional Medicine, with special interest in infection, fertility, endocrine & neuro-developmental disorders"
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
Moral of the story donn't believe everything you see on the inter webs
Forgive me … I don't mean to expose myself as a scientist and also a luddite, BUT nothing 'saves' "life's" (sic) (lives).
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
a reply to: Fowlerstoad
Forgive me … I don't mean to expose myself as a scientist and also a luddite, BUT nothing 'saves' "life's" (sic) (lives).
Pretty sure nobody thinks anyone is actually claiming that vaccines are bestowing immortality to anyone.
I think everyone on this thread (even the OP) knows what I mean by the assertion that vaccines save lives.