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It’s almost as if not only Occam’s Razor and heuristics suggest there is some truth to conspiracy theories around contagion, virology, vaccines and infectious disease all being mostly settled pseudo-science twaddle to prop up lucrative medical industrial complex scams and grifts... there may also be hard evidence for institutional corruption, wilful iatrogenesis and malfeasance with grounds for criminal prosecution. Happy days.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, because it is unconstrained by the meagerness of our imagination.

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I've read that polio was a late-19th, mid-20th century phenomenon in the USA that was caused by pesticides. It didn't exist before.

That background puts the "success" of public health in a different light.

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I take it that you are referring to Forrest Maready's book?

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I didn't read the book but he has a long Twitter thread about it.

https://twitter.com/forrestmaready/status/1005127713848463361

Why did polio epidemics spread as better nutrition and hygiene made other infectious diseases vanish (see link)? Pesticides are a reasonable theory. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3349539

Edit: Speaking of the Salk vaccine, Maready cites vaccine experts who say things like this: It was proven in Israel in 1958, when it had its big Type I epidemic. They did not see any difference in protection between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Last year in Massachusetts during a Type III outbreak, there were more paralytic cases in the triple vaccinates than in the unvaccinated. https://manmadedisease.s3.amazonaws.com/ThePresentStatusOfPolioVaccines-1960-Chicago.pdf

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I have read his book. It is well researched and very interesting.

I don't agree with everything he says but the book is food for thought nonetheless. The purpose of my writing was to describe events that undeniably happened in the world of science and history and to draw parallels to what's going on in modern times. The similarities are beyond eerie

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I guess this sentence rubbed me the wrong way: "The introduction of the Salk polio vaccine represents one of the most important advances in modern public health." Just as you posted your reply, I edited mine to raise some doubts. Parallels to modern times, indeed.

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Excellent article, thank you. I wasn't aware of this at all.

In case you haven't heard: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30111741/

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Thank you for your kind words. Although I had not read the specific article previously, this phenomenon has been well-known for quite some time and multiple articles draw similar conclusions.

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