Reddit mentions of A Shot in the Dark

I like this theory! I always got the vibe of early 2000s live action shows from the footage myself, especially with the fashion, but that might just be me.

There have been a few other threads I think could be linked to yours having to do with diseases and the anti-vaccination movement, but I'll have to dig them up after work. For now I'll add this: the anti-vacc book A Shot in the Dark was published in 1991 and the cover is... pink. This could be a coincidence, but I remember another poster talking about an anti-vacc book that was pink as well, and pink is an important color to the series.

Correlation is not causation. Illnesses of ALL types have reduced fatality due to better treatment, NOT vaccination. It's like how war fatalities have declined because of better trauma units -- formerly fatal injuries are now survivable.

Let's take Pertussis. In the 1920s and 30s, whooping cough was so common that 73% of all children had a history of the disease by age 10. Better sanitation nutrition, housing, and health care resulted in better health in general for the infant population. During WWII, antibiotics were introduced, reducing fatalities from secondary infections. A.H. Griffith, of Wellcome Research Laboratories in England, commented, "The mortality from whooping cough dropped ten years earlier [before the vaccination program] with the advent of antibiotics for treatments of complications and new treatments for maintaining fluid balance in the very young, which constitute the main majority of fatal cases of whooping cough."

Reference, p.6


> Talk to your grandparents about polio.

Funny you should mention that, because polio INCREASED after vaccination drives, and in most places, the only way to GET IT is from the recently-vaccinated. E.g.:

Outbreaks of VAPP (vaccine-induced polio) occurred independently in Belarus (1965–66), Canada (1966–68), Egypt (1983–1993), Hispaniola (2000–2001), Philippines (2001), Madagascar (2001–2002),[41] and in Haiti (2002), where political strife and poverty have interfered with vaccination efforts.[42] In 2006 an outbreak of vaccine-derived poliovirus occurred in China.[43] Cases have been reported from Cambodia (2005–2006), Myanmar (2006–2007), Iran (1995, 2005–2007), Syria, Kuwait and Egypt.[44] Since 2005, The World Health Organization has been tracking vaccine-caused polio in northern Nigeria caused by a mutation in live oral polio vaccines.[45]

> Every vaccine on the standard schedule has been shown to be statistically safe and effective.

Incorrect. Many of them are not effective.

> If you had a brain you could read the journal articles detailing the studies.

Yes, please point to the studies. Note that you won't find any clinical studies, only epidemiological data.

Remember correlation is not causation. Did you know a lack of pirates is what's causing global warming? Or vice-versa, I forget which:

http://www.venganza.org/images/PiratesVsTemp.png

> qualified to reverse hundreds of years of scientific finding.

You're confusing vaccination with inoculation, and inoculation actually served to spread diseases like smallpox very effectively. Give a weakened strain to a healthy person when he's ready and he gets a mild case, but is capable of spreading full-blown cases to others in his vicinity, especially those NOT in such great health.

Here are a bunch of graphs showing trends in diseases versus vaccinations

You'll note some interesting things, such as diseases declining WELL BEFORE vaccinations, infant mortality from ALL causes declining such that you can't pinpoint a specific cause, diseases declining simultaneously in countries where vaccines WEREN'T introduced as well as where they WERE introduced; and vaccines CAUSING disease:

"In the graphs notice the large numbers of deaths caused by the smallpox vaccine itself. By 1901 in the UK, more people died from the smallpox vaccination than from smallpox itself."

> If you had a brain you could understand the statistics that go into those studies.

I challenge you to find the raw data. All we get from official sources is soundbites or correlations; where's the data they used to come up with it?