I commented on Quora about vaccines and politics:

Refute the theory of aluminum toxicity due to the aluminum added to some vaccines.

Refute the sometimes permanent debilitating side-effects of the HPV vaccines, with dubious efficacy and given that the body normally clears out HPV infections on its own.

I agree public health is very important and is horrendous in many developing countries. But that does not mean there is not corruption.

There is corruption all over the place in any top-down power vacuum political structure.

Your use of the word dumb is the pot calling the kettle black.

See also my replies to Judith Manske.

Seems you do not understand the Bill of Rights. In the America of my ancestors (apparently probably long before yours arrived in the USA), we respected the individual and state sovereignty with limitations of the infringement power of the government, so as to avoid the totalitarianism that we escaped from in England. If you do not respect the Constitution, then why do you think you are entitled to claim you are American?

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

GTFO if you do not like liberty and its concomitant right of dissent!

Probably if the government had not tried to start forcing mandatory dubious vaccines (e.g. HPV) on the youth (often via the corrupt education system), then such anti-vaccine fears would be much more subdued. The HPV vaccine as well as injectable multiple years of infertility are the way to encourage irresponsible promiscuity of teens snd early 20s which further degrades the society into a clusterfuck of the FALSE LIFE PLAN (http://blog.jim.com). Some conservatives may prefer to view HPV as an affliction of the promiscuous, and protest the slippery slope towards mandatory vaccinations of their children.

Slavery always is an economic phenomenon, i.e. the South had slavery until the invention of the cotton gin because it was the only economic way to compete. Debt slavery continues now which most Millennials have been forced into by the boomers who wanted to borrow from the future and thus pulled incomes forward 30 years and caused everything to be too expensive (when you can borrow 30 years of income, then houses are 30X more expensive than they would be … ditto when you can borrow for an education).

I replied to Judith Mankse on Quora:

Some vaccines are very necessary in any case, with polio being one of those. The HPV vaccines forced on the youth are dubious. Apparently it is the aluminum they are putting in vaccines that may be causing the problems.

I have been through a lot of suffering with 6 years of TB. But I empathize with your suffering which is worse than mine with a more difficult prognosis. I understand very much that you want to prevent that suffering for others. And I can only hope that we continue to advance technology to maybe offer you more hope within your lifetime.

I believe science can solve any problem eventually. As we are moving into the post-industrial knowledge age, post-scarcity then we have the resources for more youth to work on science. Now we just need to fix our education system to stop lying to youth that they can earn a living in non-STEM fields as automation displaces most other forms of (non-creative) work.

Armstrong blogged Chronic Wasting Disease Spreading:

Most people have never heard of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) but it is a highly contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk and moose. CWD causes a characteristic spongy degeneration of the brains of infected animals. This results in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss of bodily functions and death. The risk of CWD transmission to humans remains unknown. However, in a test conducted to determine if nonhuman primates were susceptible to CWD, two squirrel monkeys were inoculated and contracted the disease.

CWD belongs to a group of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Within this family of diseases, there are several other variants that affect domestic animals: scrapie, which has been identified in domestic sheep and goats for more than 200 years, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle (also known as “mad cow disease”), and transmissible mink encephalopathy in farmed mink.

CWD is in North America in deer, elk, and moose. There are now several rare human diseases are also TSEs. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) occurs naturally in about one out of every one million people worldwide. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (v-CJD) has been associated with the large-scale outbreak of BSE in cattle herds in Great Britain.

Preliminary testing warns that it is possible for CWD to infect humans. So far that has not taken place. Hunters might not want to be eating venison these days and should consult the environmental agencies of the state you are in. It has now spread to Pennsylvania and even New Jersey.