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> > > Interesting how the chemicals in cigarettes
> are
> > > bad, but those exact same chemicals in
> vaccines
> > > are good.
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> > Like what? Even if true, you get a particular
> > vaccine 1-3 times in a lifetime, not ten or
> more
> > times daily for years.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/049147_cigarettes_vacci
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> You're of course right about the quantity.
> However, these are given at some of the most
> formative years of life.
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> I'm not anti vaccine per se, but I am not going to
> just ignore possibilities that they do cause harm.
That article does not go into any depth. The scariest substance it cites is formaldehyde. But we naturally have formaldehyde in our systems and it's found in food. As one commenter explains...
"There is 1,731.4ug of formaldehyde in a ripe peach. Our bodies also produce it.
A 3.2kg (7lb) newborn with an average blood volume of 83.3mL/kg would naturally have, at any given time, about 575-862ug of formaldehyde circulating in their blood. By the time they are 6 years old (46lb or 21kg), they'll naturally have 3,562-5,342ug of formaldehyde in their blood. Bear in mind that the formaldehyde from each shot will not build up in their bodies from shot to shot, as it is very rapidly (within hours) metabolized and eliminated as formate in the urine or breathed out as CO2.
So what's the most a child might get in a single office visit? That would probably be at their 6 month visit (when they are, on average, 16.5lbs or 7.5kg) with HepB, DTaP, IPV and flu, for a total of 307.5ug. That is about 160 times less than the total amount their body naturally produces every single day*. Compare that to the 428.4-1,516.4ug of formaldehyde in a single apple. Are apples now 'poison' too?"
I have a certain skepticism of vaccines myself - and especially of pharmaceutical companies - but I just can't accept at face value statements whose primary purpose is to scare people. If you're going to reject something as beneficial as vaccines have been, then it has to be based on solid scientific research. And completely bogus claims made by right to lifers really piss me off.