steveh_131
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Alpo said:From Forbes, April 2015
This is sort of a typical psuedo-scientific propaganda piece, I didn't see anything useful in there.
Alpo said:Journal of the American Medical Association
JAMA Network | JAMA | Effectiveness of Salk Vaccine:*Analysis of Virologically Confirmed Cases of Paralytic and Nonparalytic Poliomyelitis
This one is more useful. I appreciate you digging it up, now let's discuss it.
The sample size is 100 patients, which is fairly tiny. And I have only the abstract so I can't look at their methods. However, I've mentioned several times that I think vaccine science is legitimate so I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
Keep in mind that I am not arguing that vaccines can't be effective. I am arguing that the polio 'epidemic' may not have been largely caused by the polio virus, and additionally, the polio virus was already declining for reasons other than the vaccine.
If you recall, I argued that changes in mis-diagnosis numbers is part of the reason. This study backs me up fully. Out of 251 'clinically diagnosed' patients, only 100 were confirmed in the lab to be infected with the polio virus. That's less than a 40% positive diagnosis of polio virus compared to the clinical diagnosis.
Also keep in mind that this was in 1961, when the clinical diagnosis was far more strict than it was in 1954 (before the vaccine was introduced). The diagnostic requirement in 1954 was two examinations at least 24 hours apart showing partial or complete paralysis. In 1955, this was modified to require paralysis lasting at least 60 days. This is a HUGE reason for the drop that occurred in 1955 when the vaccine was introduced.
So if at least 60% of the polio diagnoses were false (even more must have been prior to 1955), how could they have been lowered by the polio vaccine? They couldn't. Something else lowered them because something else caused them.
The 'polio epidemic' and its subsequent 'eradication' is a farce, in my opinion. And to suggest that we will return to such an epidemic thanks to people who don't vaccinate is equally farcical.