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> . In 1949, a researcher named Fred R. Klenner claimed to have found that high doses of vitamin-C could ward off the virus. This was referenced in an episode

> . In 1949, a researcher named Fred R. Klenner claimed to have found that high doses of vitamin-C could ward off the virus. This was referenced in an episode of the tv show House > the mass global uptake afterwards have almost rendered the virus extinct. This is one of the things India (and from what I've heard, Pakistan) did really well. Every year around vaccination time (there used to be two doses taken around a month apart) there used to be almost propaganda like mass advertisements, camps, etc. When I was a kid I knew of a handful of older people that had polio; a kid born today is unlikely to meet someone with polio. Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :(

CamperBob2 8y ago
Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :( Not without some justification: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci... This CIA-backed program should have been seen (and prosecuted) as a crime against humanity, but for some reason, it wasn't.
- emodendroket 8y ago
  Yeah, that seemed like an action with obvious and really unfortunate consequences.
- krapp 8y ago
  But the anti-vaccination movement is arguing that real vaccinations are a conspiracy - the post you linked is about CIA agents infiltrating a vaccination program in order to attempt to verify Bin Laden DNA in a local population. I've read several articles about this incident and none of them claim the vaccines themselves were tampered with, or poisoned, so it seems neither the article or the operation described support the premise held by anti-vaxxers that vaccinations either don't work or are actively and intentionally harmful.
  - Taniwha 8y ago
    The antivaccination weirdos never got to see my grandmother (in NZ, a western country) walk in a leg brace her entire life, they are dangerous, we don't shame them enough

CamperBob2 8y ago

Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :( Not without some justification: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci... This CIA-backed program should have been seen (and prosecuted) as a crime against humanity, but for some reason, it wasn't.

emodendroket 8y ago
Yeah, that seemed like an action with obvious and really unfortunate consequences.
krapp 8y ago
But the anti-vaccination movement is arguing that real vaccinations are a conspiracy - the post you linked is about CIA agents infiltrating a vaccination program in order to attempt to verify Bin Laden DNA in a local population. I've read several articles about this incident and none of them claim the vaccines themselves were tampered with, or poisoned, so it seems neither the article or the operation described support the premise held by anti-vaxxers that vaccinations either don't work or are actively and intentionally harmful.
- Taniwha 8y ago
  The antivaccination weirdos never got to see my grandmother (in NZ, a western country) walk in a leg brace her entire life, they are dangerous, we don't shame them enough