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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 12/10/2008 : 15:14:58
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"On the matter of MMR vaccine, faith surpasses reason" * is a quote from Dr Anthony Cox's latest black triangular blogpost.
http://www.blacktriangle.org/blog/?p=1861
Dr Cox PhD is one of the faithfully unwashed in the new age of unreason ... and MMR is his faith. LOL
* This risible Cox saying constitutes the resurrection of CoxWatch ... where the herd watches over the great shepherd with his syringe full of faith, MMR and hopeless unreason.  |
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MinorityView
USA
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Posted - 12/10/2008 : 17:19:32
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I cannot understand why anyone would think that people whose children were damaged by MMR would have faith in the safety of MMR.
Talk about unreasonable!
Aged survivor of many years of alternative health care...and one vaccine, administered by a doctor without the consent of my parents, 50 years ago. |
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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/11/2008 : 16:48:30
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Quick, quick, read it while you can! Doc Cox will soon turn nasty and censorious and all commentary will be peremptorily switched off.
http://www.blacktriangle.org/blog/?p=1861#comments
Of course, Dr Cox PhD is never deliberately dense about anything – it all comes naturally to the man whose faith in matters of MMR surpasses any sort of reason. LOL.
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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/11/2008 : 20:08:15
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"Hark, is that the sound of straws being grasped by a drowning man that I hear?"
http://www.blacktriangle.org/blog/?p=1861#comments
Becky Fizzo, the pantomime dame, can now hear the sounds of Anthony Royston Cox PhD, sucking mud up a straw from the bottom of his black-triangular pond. Such are the contemporary plopping sounds of pond life and the vile suck, suck noises of foul panto queens.
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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/13/2008 : 12:54:15
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Doc Cox is now stretching beyond satirisation in his faithful desperation to promote the utter safety of MMR ...
http://www.blacktriangle.org/blog/?p=1863
You have to larf out loud: Anthony Royston Cox PhD has now elicited the services of Ian Hislop (prince of satire) to lend scientific credibility to the faith that MMR is safe. LOL again ... 
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John Stone
United Kingdom
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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/14/2008 : 11:21:14
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Originally posted by John Stone
Actually, Hislop says quite a lot of interesting things - not a straightforward climbdown at all:
I think it could be said that the 'Prince of Satire' has damned the safety of MMR in a deluge of faint praise. LOL  |
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laura_c_a
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Posted - 12/15/2008 : 11:03:56
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That's the problem with 'soundbites' and short interviews. They can be twisted and miscontrued to give a completely different meaning.
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laura_c_a
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Posted - 12/15/2008 : 11:13:11
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| I am a great fan of Ian Hislop by the way. |
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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 07:39:41
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How long before the highly accurate Mr Schwartz gets busted by BlackTriangle?
http://www.blacktriangle.org/blog/?p=1861#comment-34717
Mr Schwartz says,
"Reading this I make the following observations:
1) The first study was never retracted, the conclusions weren’t retracted. Even worse, the partial retraction of a minor interpretation in the study text was only retracted due to public reactions, not any scientific reason. The author of this article clearly didn’t read the details, didn’t comprehend the details, or is purposefully misleading everyone.
2) The only speculation about any O’Leary retraction is an interview quote (seemingly an offhand opinion) from Dr. Bustin, who is not connected to that study. Not exactly newsworthy.
3) The rest of this article is pure speculation and a personal swipe at Mr. Stone.
4) The comments degenerate into personal insult against Mr. Stone who responds by correcting insult or inaccuracies with quotes from actual articles or studies.
Conclusion: This site isn’t exactly a bastion of science or accuracy."
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John Stone
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 12:16:12
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So, Cox has wound the correspondence up, having had the final say - well he is entitled, although the implication that some time limit has expired rather that it being a matter of personal whim doesn't bear much scrutiny. It is, of course, very hard to take seriously. If this is the kind of response you get, any time some piece of scientific dogma is challenged we are only going to have science arranged on an infantile basis.
I recall the attack on Wakefield in February 2004 by Nobel priz-winner, Lewis Wolpert. Wolpert implied in a London Evening Standard article but did not state - in peculiar staccato language - that Wakefield had attacked the very core of scientific beliefs. This claim - if it was indeed made - was a perfectly absurd. MMR was a just another pharmaceutical product which needed testing and monitoring like an other. The political and medical authorities demonstrated their lack of objectivity by subjecting anyone who disagreed to harassment and abuse, while the children themselves were condemned to medical neglect. Every time they stuff their ears they just prove the point.
Of course, we also had the MMR dogma enunciated by Richard Dawkins - bordering on pure intellectual idiocy - MMR as a core tenet of rational belief. What is the matter with these people? If Dawkin's wants people to believe what scientists say then he shouldn't indulge in latter day totemism.
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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 12:35:23
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Originally posted by John Stone
So, Cox has wound the correspondence up, having had the final say - well he is entitled, although the implication that some time limit has expired rather that it being a matter of personal whim doesn't bear much scrutiny.
When things start to get interesting, Dr Royston PhD winds them up. Funny that!
PS. I still wonder who paid for that September pharmaco-vigilant junket in Buenos Aires.
PPS. John, do you have a link to the Dawkins idiocy on MMR?
PPPS. I neither believe in God nor MMR. |
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MinorityView
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John Stone
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 13:29:01
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Cybertiger
It came in Dawkins' two part television documentary 'The Enemies of Reason' - 8 minutes into part 2 (with Michael Fitzpatrick):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4720837385783230047
A very genteel rant - elision of many unlike cases along the theme of the world falling apart, and the threat to the class he represents.
Minorityview
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Edited by - John Stone on 12/17/2008 14:26:11 |
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Cybertiger
United Kingdom
976 Posts |
Posted - 12/17/2008 : 15:54:43
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Originally posted by MinorityView
new piece on insidevaccine critiques the vaccine defenders:
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/2008/12/15/vaccines-safe-parents-dangerous/
Very good stuff from 'insidevaccines! Dr Anthony Royston Cox PhD, defender of the British faith in vaccine safety, would be well advised to read and inwardly digest these very wise words on defending that faith ... especially,
"The official pro-vaccine position is that vaccines are safe. If this is true, a good system for tracking vaccine damage would confirm that safety. If vaccine defenders really believe that vaccines are completely safe and effective they should be fighting passionately for a system that tries to collect every vaccine reaction, no matter how minor. The current system obviously allows many thousands of reactions to pass unrecorded, perhaps, as the anti-vaccine critics claim, many millions. The only way to sort this out is to replace an ineffective system with an effective one. To replace bad statistics with good statistics. If pro-vaccine folks really, honestly, wholeheartedly believe in the safety of vaccines they should be fighting, hard, for an effective system of monitoring vaccine damage. We all need to end the confusion."
Go figure, Royston! |
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MinorityView
USA
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 17:15:59
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the insidevaccines team thanks you for the kind words!
I like your choice of quote...it highlights their hypocrisy and double-dealing very nicely.
Aged survivor of many years of alternative health care...and one vaccine, administered by a doctor without the consent of my parents, 50 years ago. |
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MMR vaccine, faith and unreasonableness
