http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/15/1363225/-Eureka-My-earthshaking-new-study-reveals-the-root-cause-of-the-profoundly-stupid
Can a vaccine be responsible for the profoundly stupid?
It is a question I have been pondering for the past week or two. Could a vaccine, specifically, the polio vaccine, have caused us to become profoundly stupid? Looking for evidence, like so many troubled young parents of today faced with a vaccination schedule, I turned to Google to find out. What I discovered was deeply disturbing.
The United States experienced an epidemic of polio in 1952, with 21,000, of the reported 57,628 cases, resulting in paralysis. Clearly, a vaccine was needed. Fortunately, work was already underway.
In 1953, Jonas Salk published the successful results of his early inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) tests. Those results were so promising that ...
A nationwide testing of the vaccine was launched in April 1954 with the mass inoculation of school children. The results were amazing -- 60-70 percent prevention -- and Salk was praised to the skies. But suddenly, some 200 cases of the disease were caused by the vaccine and 11 people died. All testing was halted. It seemed that people's hopes were dashed until investigators found that the disease-causing vaccine all came from one poorly made batch at one drug company. Higher production standards were adopted and vaccinations resumed, with over 4 million given by August 1955. The impact was dramatic: In 1955 there were 28,985 cases of polio; in 1956, 14,647; in 1957, 5,894. By 1959, 90 other countries used Salk's vaccine.
It changed the world. Albert Sabin soon developed an oral vaccine (OPV) using a weakened live virus, and in 1962 it was licensed for use in the U.S., and being cheaper, and less painful, it replaced the Salk vaccine by 1968. In 2000, with the virus wiped out in the United States, we switched back to the IPV vaccine amid concerns that the OPV vaccine might lead to cases of vaccine-related polio.
However, shortly after the polio vaccine had been widely administered, something very strange began to happen to the American psyche. The more I clicked, the more I learned about the growth of the profoundly stupid, an apparent side effect of the polio vaccine that I refer to as PSSEPV. Although this side effect only had a measurable impact on 1 to 5 percent of all who received the vaccine, the impact of PSSEPV could become quite profound. Please follow me below the fold for a look at what my in-depth research uncovered.
you really need to read the rest of the article it is very informative as to how easily we are and have been manipulated by our politicians that proclaim their loyalty to us and by those who come on your TV daily sailing snake oil and misleading's of how great whatever they are hawking this week is. there used to be jokes and TV/radio skits about how the person watching TV jumps up and runs out because they gotta buy what they just saw shinny objects.
my favorite was a Radio Shack put down the guy jumps up runs out comes back with the latest shinny object then again he does it at the end a door opens to a room full of stuff he bought because of TV ads. this new tech age buy it today before you get home it's now smaller and the next biggest thing that just arrived, sadly we bite we buy and we repeat.
this is also a teaching moment for those of us old enough to remember pass it on and those younger let it be the history you don't dismiss because it can and will repeat it self if you do. i'm beginning to get a different understanding of greatest country in the world seems it only apply's to politicians and hucksters
