RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

ThatRobGuy said:

When you consider the data mentioned, blanket preemptive dismissal would make actually make some sense.

Once the seed has been planted, you can't put the genie back into the bottle so to speak. (Hence the reason why people who go to those practitioners are 25-25% less likely to get vaccinated)

It's the same reason why in almost every case, if a person believes in one conspiracy, they'll end up getting on board with several others.

Once that "don't trust the mainstream medical institutions" mentality is established, that doesn't seem to be an easy switch for people to turn back off.

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You might be right and that even highly limited but reasonable applications of "alternative" medicine should be shunned because the ignorant or stupid will run with it and go whole hog.

But.... thats not the world I prefer, where certain limited but true things need to be suppressed because some people dont know when to stop, even when they are told. It might be the world we need as you note. But Im the selectively eternal optimist I guess.

However, none of this is not comparable to having the person at the head of national public health agencies simply contradicting the science that supports core prevention and possibly treatment methods.

ThatRobGuy said:

When you consider the data mentioned, blanket preemptive dismissal would make actually make some sense.

Once the seed has been planted, you can't put the genie back into the bottle so to speak. (Hence the reason why people who go to those practitioners are 25-25% less likely to get vaccinated)

It's the same reason why in almost every case, if a person believes in one conspiracy, they'll end up getting on board with several others.

Once that "don't trust the mainstream medical institutions" mentality is established, that doesn't seem to be an easy switch for people to turn back off.

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You're suggesting one causes the other, instead of merely correlated. People that reject vaccines, and people that go to alternative medical practitioners are outside the consensus, but that doesn't mean that using alternative medicine causes people to avoid vaccines.

FireDragon76 said:

You're suggesting one causes the other, instead of merely correlated. People that reject vaccines, and people that go to alternative medical practitioners are outside the consensus, but that doesn't mean that using alternative medicine causes people to avoid vaccines.

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I think the data I provided earlier suggests more that just a casual correlation.

That's enhanced by the fact that (if you're familiar with what they're taught in those schools), it's not surprising.

They have done studies and surveys among that industry and found some rather concerning results

Per NIH/PubMed

Within the Chiropractic profession, only 35.7% of them would accept to be immunized in the future. Furthermore, only 56% of respondents had immunized their children and only 21% would refer patients for possible immunization. Russell et al40 reported that only 41% of chiropractors felt immunizations were safe in general, that 60% felt immunization should never be given to children under the age of 1, that 30% felt they should never be provided to the elderly and 37% of them advised their patients “against having themselves/their children immunized”. Finally, a recent study by Downey et al41 reported that children were significantly less likely to receive all four recommended vaccinations if they saw a naturopathic doctor and significantly less likely to receive three of the four recommended vaccinations if they saw a chiropractor.