Momtezuma Tuatara
27-02-09, 09:44 AM
has some obnoxious articles in which they reframe messages in the most ludicrous way.
Here is one example called The demonization of vaccination.
http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2009spring/article1.html
This comment strikes me as very strange:
The pro-vaccine groups’ efforts are complicated by a virulent opposition that casts those parents who choose to vaccinate their children as either irresponsible or hoodwinked.
Since when? :giggle: Aren't the people who refuse vaccinations, said by Offit to be the demons about to kill all the vaccinated people? :rolleyes:
Those who have disputed the claim of a vaccine-induced autism epidemic have on occasion been warned that they will be sued for libel or some other charge if they do not desist. They have even been subject to death threats. “A man from Seattle wrote to me that he would ‘hang me from my neck,’” says University of Pennsylvania professor Paul Offit, MD, an expert on vaccines and a vocal naysayer to notions linking them to increases in autism.
He forwarded the information to the FBI. “The threat was deemed credible,” he says.
Is Paul Offit, now the royal "they"?
Note the very subtle messages here. This is a classic example of the way vaccine defenders are trying to reframe the message, and demonize people who don't vaccinate, as violent, with no morals....
As to the threats against Offit, personally, all we only have Offit's strangely worded statement that FBI "deemed" the threat credible.
Aren't these the same people who would have been involved in the ludicrous house invasion of that USA homeschooling family that ran the food bank?
Deconstruct this piece:
Among fully enlightened people,” an editorial in the New York Times says, “the case for vaccination is made out, and there is no longer any occasion to review the evidence.” Critics of vaccination policy, it opines, “are engaged, with perfect sincerity, in a futile attempt to head off human progress and to reopen a question about which pretty much all of the world has made up its mind.”
Here is one example called The demonization of vaccination.
http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2009spring/article1.html
This comment strikes me as very strange:
The pro-vaccine groups’ efforts are complicated by a virulent opposition that casts those parents who choose to vaccinate their children as either irresponsible or hoodwinked.
Since when? :giggle: Aren't the people who refuse vaccinations, said by Offit to be the demons about to kill all the vaccinated people? :rolleyes:
Those who have disputed the claim of a vaccine-induced autism epidemic have on occasion been warned that they will be sued for libel or some other charge if they do not desist. They have even been subject to death threats. “A man from Seattle wrote to me that he would ‘hang me from my neck,’” says University of Pennsylvania professor Paul Offit, MD, an expert on vaccines and a vocal naysayer to notions linking them to increases in autism.
He forwarded the information to the FBI. “The threat was deemed credible,” he says.
Is Paul Offit, now the royal "they"?
Note the very subtle messages here. This is a classic example of the way vaccine defenders are trying to reframe the message, and demonize people who don't vaccinate, as violent, with no morals....
As to the threats against Offit, personally, all we only have Offit's strangely worded statement that FBI "deemed" the threat credible.
Aren't these the same people who would have been involved in the ludicrous house invasion of that USA homeschooling family that ran the food bank?
Deconstruct this piece:
Among fully enlightened people,” an editorial in the New York Times says, “the case for vaccination is made out, and there is no longer any occasion to review the evidence.” Critics of vaccination policy, it opines, “are engaged, with perfect sincerity, in a futile attempt to head off human progress and to reopen a question about which pretty much all of the world has made up its mind.”