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le Chevalier des Grieux | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 "after controlling for gender, workplace, type of practice, and year of diploma, nonpediatricians were more likely not to have immunized their children against measles, mumps, hepatitis B, or Haemophilus influenzae type b. They more frequently postponed diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) (OR: 4.5; 95% CI: 2.0-10.19) and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination. Although projected immunization rates were higher than effective rates, 10% of nonpediatricians would still not follow the official immunization recommendations in 2004. They would more frequently refrain from using combination vaccines and postpone DTP and MMR immunization to later in life. "
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g r e y | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 most GPs are not terribly smart or insightful, tbh.  their job is to take corporate pharma output and get their patients to buy it, they are little more than drug salesmen with some background knowledge. modern medicine was created in the early 1900s via the flexner report in order to centralize control of our bodies to the ownership class.

@scalar was at one point getting a collection of posts together about the vaccination question, and iirc it was rage-inducing for him what these products do to children.  i don't think he's that active anymore, but anyone in alt-health can tell you nightmare stories about these products.

the entire narrative of vaccination eliminating diseases is a lie, like most everything else about the 20th century.
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le Chevalier des Grieux | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 probably true enough about GPs, which is what makes evidence of them not vaccinating their own kids at official narratives so interesting...
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BunnygirlAbductor | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 >most GPs are not terribly smart or insightful, tbh.  their job is to take corporate pharma output and get their patients to buy it, they are little more than drug salesmen with some background knowledge. 
I explained this to my wife. Most drs are just matching symptoms to drugs and don't actually know how they work. When a doc leaves the room and comes back ten minutes later with a recommendation, a lot of them spent that ten minutes on Google.