By Nicholas Regush

The term "anti-vaccinationists" jumped out at me when I was scanning the latest contents of the August 24 edition of the British Medical Journal. The actual title of the "Education And Debate" article was "Anti-vaccinationists past and present."

My first thought was: here we go again, some more fractured history. Mind you, I'm not opposed to history lessons, but often historians or those posing as historians have a one-dimensional view of how politics and economics shape the way we think about our world.

To call this article one-dimensional would be an act of charity. "Idiotic" would be more apropos. I'm going to give you the link so you can read it yourself.

The purpose of this article is to essentially show that "anti-vaccinationists" (NEVER REALLY CLEARLY DEFINED IN THIS ARTICLE) haven,t changed much in two centuries. There are "uncanny similarities." Or so the authors say. These similarities suggest "an unbroken transmission of core beliefs and attitudes over time."

Really?

And oh the compassion flows freely because "these comparisons emphasize that, regardless of how the medical establishment feels about anti-vaccinationists, it is important to understand that they have deeply held beliefs, often of a spiritual or philosophical nature, and these beliefs have remained remarkably constant over the better part of two centuries."

How sweet and what utter bilge. BMJ actually published this? What are these people yammering about?

Where is the evidence for this tripe? Where do they get off making such sweeping comparative generalizations? Academics in the true sense, they are NOT.

Yes, there are some people who are opposed to vaccination on philosophical grounds, but in the MODERN world there are many who have seen their children decked in one way or another by vaccines and are royally ticked off.

There is also the issue of science. Are these authors not aware of the fact that during THIS century, there has been a huge level of interest growing - and fast - in the corrupt practices of medicine and its pharmaceutical allies? Hey man, this is not philosophical or spiritual. This is POLITICAL. People are getting fed up with drug companies that whip out one vaccine after another without doing proper testing. They are getting fed up with government bureaucrats and politicians that do nothing to protect their children against unnecessary assault via bad medicine. They are getting fed up with scientists who reek of conflict of interest as they sit on vaccine advisory panels and have money shovelled into their mouths and elsewhere by drug companies. They are also getting fed up with pompous academics who know nothing about the real world.

I'm also fed up to here - and to there - and everywhere else about the nonsense that comes from the shallow brains of people who don,t do their real-world homework.