Reply #63: There are several people here engaged in a reasonable discussion, [View All]

[mhatrw]

seeking truth, willing to learn from each other and map out some middle ground and come to an agreement. You are not one of these people.

You throw anything you can against the wall to see if its sticks. You resort to multiple personal attacks, appeals to authority, red herrings, non sequiturs, gang tackling and every other rhetorical trick in the book to hide that fact that the CDC is promoting an unsupported myth that has indisputably resulted in many health practitioners scaring pregnant women into being injected with thimerosal.

Doctors and nurses understandably believe this myth because the CDC and the ACOG are promoting it, but if you examine the medical literature the CDC and ACOG provide to back their claims, it quickly becomes clear that there isn't any decent epidemiological evidence for this myth. Furthermore, the United States is one of the only countries in the world in which this particular health myth is being pushed. You have read the abstracts for the studies the CDC is using to promote this myth, so by now you must realize the truth about the paucity of this supposed evidence. And minimum, you must admit that the evidence in inconclusive. Yet still your only purpose is only to use whatever rhetorical tricks you can to suppress the truth and support this dangerous myth.

The first principle of medicine should be to do no harm. Why do you promote breaking that principle?

Perhaps you feel that perpetuating this myth is a good thing because you think it is beneficial to scare doctors into recommending and pregnant women into getting two flu vaccinations (H1N1 and seasonal), even if these vaccinations contain thimerosal. Since you don't recognize any risks of thimerosal, even to the tiniest developing fetus, perhaps you feel that the benefits of flu vaccination far outweigh their risks even when there is no special influenza risk to a given sub-population. Is that how you feel?