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Mom of child dead from measles: “Don’t do the shots,” my other 4 kids were fine (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Yes, it was definitely a product of indoctrination from my dad, who was a chiropractor (my grandpa was also a chiropractor); he was very knowledgeable in other medical areas like anatomy, so it was difficult for me to realize he was wrong about this.

Though, I did write an argumentative paper for high school English about why vaccines were less effective than we thought, and should not be worth the risk. I even used statistics from the same measles outbreak I was part of as proof, because 50% of those who got the measles were vaccinated. Of course, I was too dumb at the time to realize that 50 people from a vaccinated pool of 200,000 doesn't equate to 50 people from an unvaccinated pool of 10,000 (I don't remember exact numbers anymore, this was almost 30 years ago).