ABC's new drama, "Eli Stone," debuts on Thursday. It features British actor Jonny Lee Miller as a prophet-like lawyer who in the opening episode argues in court that a flu vaccine made a child autistic. When it is revealed in court that an executive at the fictional vaccine maker didn't allow his own child to get the shot, jurors side with the family, giving them a huge award.CNN story
This is completely irresponsible television and, because people tend to believe what they see on TV, will potentially influence some irresponsible parents to not vaccinate their children, which could lead to outbreaks and death. The American Academy of Pediatrics has asked the Walt Disney Company not to air the show.
The producers insist they're not anti-vaccine and would be upset if some parents chose not to vaccinate because of the show.
Then don't endorse the anti-vaccine beliefs you numbnuts!
Greg Berlanti, a co-creator of the show, said the episode is fictional but designed "to participate in what is a national conversation" about a controversial subject.But you're on the wrong side of the controversy, idiot. You're on the side of anti-science, woo woo belief that harms children. Next up on Eli Stone, Eli takes a case showing the loving, positive side of child pornography!
Marc Guggenheim, who helped create the show, said the first episode shows how a fictional company covered up a study that raised questions about its product, and that the message is really about "the downside of the corporatization of America."Oh, the "downside of the corporatization of America." How about a show about a real company that raises questions about a legitimate, life-saving medical technology, thus causing doubt in the minds of the not-so-smart and facilitating the death of children? Or is that a little too close to home?
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You don’t make money telling people the truth, you make money telling them what they want to hear.
Sure. But the anti-vax campaign isn't particularly big or popular. It's mostly a bunch of anti-science kooks trying to screw up everyone's children. Why this show would side with them, and endanger children, is baffling, unless they really do believe in the anti-vax nonsense.
Now you have people portraying themselves as "anti-corporate" by spreading crap about autism. What arrogant bastards. I hope the show flops and these people are out on the street.
And what chutzpah to say that they would be upset if any parents didn't have their kids vaccinated because of the show! ABC should cancel the show immediately.
It is true the mercury in the vax do cause autism. Well ok they supposedly found some genetic predisposition but shooting many diseases into a newborn and small baby, several new and barely tested is NOT safe.
Look at your son's vax record, he is barely older than my daughter so he was vax with Rotoshield which the CDC pulled less than a year later. Were you informed that the vax they gave your child caused more harm than good or did they quietly not give him the remainder of the 4 boosters of that disease.
Beth, the data doesn't support the anti-vax claims. There is no evidence that the mercury in vaccines caused autism and several recent studies have shown no connection. More people are being identified as being autistic because over the past thirty years we've become better at diagnosing autism. In any event, since mercury hasn't been used in vaccines for years, if it was a cause, you would now be expecting the rate of autism to fall. It hasn't.
Vaccinations don't involve "shootng many diseases" into anyone. There are three types of vaccines: inactivated virus, live virus with very low virulence, and antigen. Vaccines cause an immune system response, but do not give you the disease they vaccinate against. The data does not support the claim that vaccines are not safe.
Smallpox caused between 300 and 500 million deaths in the 20th century alone but was eradicated by 1979 due to the smallpox vaccine. Polio has been nearly eradicated due to the polio vaccine. Haemophilus influenzae, a major cause of bacterial meningitis and other serious disease in children, has decreased by over 99% in the U.S. since the introduction of a vaccine in 1988. There have been various successes by anti-vax movements over the past couple of hundred years and they invariably lead to outbreaks and death, followed by a reduction in the disease once vaccinations are reinstated.
Ben was not given the Rotoshield vaccination. In any event, when a problem was found with the vaccine, it was pulled from the market. That's not evidence that all vaccines are dangerous, but evidence that when a danger is identified, the medical community reacts and pulls the danger from the market. Because doctors, nurses, pharma employees, healthcare workers, and government officials, like most people, care for children and they have their own children too.
Fine, but we'd better return to the gold standard or else!
I think we should stop taking vaccines entirely. I would much rather have kids get polio, mumps, measles, flu, etc. After all, it would help the economy because eradicating polio put all those iron lung manufacturers out of business. This would be the way to stimulate the economy.
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