| David Wright 2005-09-28, 9:42 am |
| In article <1127579280.621893.224010@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
PeterB <pkm@mytrashmail.com> wrote:
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>Rich wrote:
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>That's certainly the view promoted by the makers of vaccine.
>Unfortunately, anti-body titres don't tell us how effectively vaccine
>confers immunity in the real world. Contrary to the shrill voices of
>your fellow pharma bloggers, I accept that vaccines work, the problem
>is we don't know how WELL they work, and that's important.
No, PeterB, you *don't* accept that they work. You made it quite
clear that you think they work maybe 10% of the time. That was your
number, remember? Since that's nowhere near enough to induce herd
immunity, there'd be essentially no point to such a vaccine for most
infectious diseases.
>The article I posted on flu vaccine demonstrates the dispute over
>study results by various health agencies and whether we should be
>stock-piling. This is happening because the drug makers don't want
>to disrupt their global, bread and butter vaccine franchise. When
>the science of marketing replaces the science of medicine, everyone
>loses in the end.
If vaccines were really such a profit center, we wouldn't see
companies getting out of the vaccine biz. But we do. It's really a
problem, too.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If you can't say something nice, then sit next to me."
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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