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The "Truth" About Vaccines: Episode 1

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Episode 1: The History of Vaccines, Smallpox, Vaccine Safety and the Current CDC Schedule. The team at "The Truth About Vaccines" have been aggressively advertising and promoting their 7-part series in the weeks leading up to the launch on 12 April, even offering a monetary incentive to help spread the word. Each 2-hour episode is available for 24 hours after which it expires and the next one is launched. Once it expires, it will be available for purchase, just like the "The Truth About Cancer" series by the same company. Let's see what they had to say: Jennifer Margulis (P.hD in English) start off by buttering everyone up by stating that we are all pro-kid and pro-health and that questioning vaccines doesn't make you anti-vax, it makes you pro-questions, pro-science, pro-common-sense and pro-public-health. Well, I have a problem with that, because people don't just question vaccines, they vilify it and that does make them anti-vax. With qu...

The "Truth" About Vaccines

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The Truth About Vaccines is a new mini-series that claims to be a revolutionary documentary that will present no hype, no hysteria, just science. They claim that it is a must-see for all people, especially parents, grandparents and parents-to-be, regardless if they are pro or anti-vaccine, because this series will look objectively at vaccines from both sides. Well, I took a look at some of the 60+ "top vaccine experts" that took part in this project and I have to say, it's very one-sided, hardly a good start for an objective documentary. Every single one of their so-called "experts" on their poster are fiercely and openly anti-vaccine and not one of them has any formal training in immunology or vaccines (despite their best efforts to convince anyone). So I fixed their poster for them, since it's more like "Our Biased View On Vaccines" : ​ ​ I have signed up to watch this series and will bring you the highlights and refutations...