AN OPEN LETTER TO
BELIEVERS IN VACCINATION
September 29, 2006
To Believers in
Vaccination:
I hereby make the
following offer to any person or persons who believe vaccination works to
promote human or animal health.
I hereby offer a page
on my nonprofit's web site for an open, public discussion on the efficacy of
vaccination.
The discussion will be
"open" and "public" in the sense that it will be posted on
the web site of the California 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation Natural Woman,
Natural Man, Inc.
The discussion will be
limited to the subject of what science has to say about the efficacy of
vaccination. There will be no character assassinations, name-calling, emotional
outbursts, or other diversionary tactics. Any additions to the discussion
containing non-science-related text will be seen as an admission by the
participant that his or her belief in vaccine efficacy is belief, not
science.
The discussion will
begin by the participant's answering the following question:
"Since there are
no long-term (three years or longer) controlled studies (two matched groups: one
vaccinated, the other not vaccinated) of any vaccine in any country in any time
period, and since epidemiological evidence does not demonstrate that vaccines have prevented any disease, what evidence supporting vaccine efficacy do you propose to
submit?"
The reason I have introduced
this offer is that over the years a few M.D.s have contacted me to argue in
support of the efficacy of vaccination. But when I asked them to refer me to a
single long-term study backing up their position, they simply declined to write back.
Please note: None of
the doctors wrote back to say, "Since I haven't found any long-term studies to
support my view that vaccines promote health, I've decided to revise my position on
vaccine efficacy, or at least question it."
I have found that, in the field of science, it is
always the indoctrinated (those imbued with beliefs able to be overturned by
opening the eyes) who refuse to engage in a polite dialogue on the subject at
hand. It is always -- 100% of the time -- the
indoctrinated who back out of the conversation.
I have had my fill of
private conversations of this sort. I thought it might be interesting to make
them public.
In health,
Jock Doubleday
Director
Natural Woman, Natural
Man, Inc.
A California 501(c)3
Nonprofit Corporation
director@spontaneouscreation.org
Jock Doubleday is the
author of
"Into the
Labyrinth: Discovering the Truth about Vaccination"