FW, that site, with its condescending, sneering disparaging attitude can hardly be expected to give an objective view. Phrases like
",,,I am hard-pressed to think of anyone who did more in the early days of the CAM/IM movement, back before it ever managed to achieve a modicum of unearned respectability, to popularize CAM. In fact, no physician that I can think of has over the course of his lifetime done more to promote the rise of quackademic medicine than Dr. Weil. The only forces greater than Dr. Weil in promoting the infiltration of pseudoscience into academic medicine have been the Bravewell Collaborative and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Before there was Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Mark Hyman, or any of the other promoters of IM, there was Dr. Weil.
And why not? Dr. Weil looks like an aging 1960s rock star, and, operating from his redoubt at the University of Arizona, is quite charismatic."
Now, I've never heard of Dr. Weil, NCCAM or any of the other acronyms or people mentioned - so I'm not commenting on the content - but the style is hardly that which commends itself to science - or maybe you want to fight perceived hysteria with professional hysteria? If there is any real science in that site, it'll be lost in all the rhetoric.
Why not stick with some facts? Snuff, page 28 is for you.
6, decline in TB mortality in the US - no vaccine used. 11, decline in scarlet fever mortality in US - no vaccine 14 & 15 - total ineffectiveness of inactivated 'flu vaccine 16, effectiveness of BCG for TB vs. placebo (0%) (I was wrong - there have been trials!) 17, second survey for BCG (250,000 participants) - vaccinated group had double the rate of TB than the placebo group. 18 - 21, outbreaks in vaccinated populations 26, increase in mortality in developed nations as the number of doses administered increases 27, 800% increase in child mortality after child 'flu vaccine mandated in US 28, W. M. Torch: SIDS linked directly to DPT 29, Measles vaccine and IBDs 30,31, increases in diseases in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations 32, diabetes rates after BCG vaccination 33, comparison of diabetes mellitus to DPT vaccination rate 34,35, risk of autism and other neurological diseases related to mercury.
There is also a wealth of statistics on the dangers of the smallpox vaccine - the numbers who were killed after its administration, and the places where smallpox only decreased after the vaccine was discontinued (UK, US, Australia to name a few).
