The contraceptive pill has always had contraindications for women who suffer from any kind of thrombosis.

by completely eliminating their fun, cauterizing their imagination and turning them into paranoid poltroons, like the education bureaucrats who want to micro-manage their lives. […]
Next, a second-grader in Denver was suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade at an empty box on the playground at the Mary Blair Elementary School.

SUMMARY:

There is a considerable body of evidence which warrants scepticism about the hygiene hypothesis. However, these anomalies contradict the ‘narrow’ version of it in which microbial pressure early in life protects against atopic asthma by suppressing T-helper 2 immune responses. It is possible that a more general version of the hygiene hypothesis is still valid, but the aetiologic mechanisms involved are currently unclear.

I don’t think that 99% of health professionals recommend babies playing with cowpats

If the federal government really wanted to do something for kid’s health, they would allow schools to ban kids who had not been immunised.

Probably a state issue, but children who have not been immunised can be excluded when there are outbreaks in attempt to limit how big the outbreak gets.

I feel sorry for those who can’t take vaccinations due to medical conditions. Because they are put at extra risk from those who can but refuse to vaccinate. The good news is it looks a bit like the AVN is falling apart under the weight of lots of people complaining about them to various regulatory bodies. And they can’t keep up

Fair enough, although my advice would be to leave the medical advice to the doctors – at least in RL, you are free to spout any nonsense you like online.

Right. Doctors hate normal development of the immune system because a libertarian leaning nurse states what 99% of health professionals recommend.

Fuck you just don’t have an off button, do you?

Also been a Registered Nurse for thirty years, and a Remote Area Nurse for the last fifteen.

Fair enough, although my advice would be to leave the medical advice to the doctors – at least in RL, you are free to spout any nonsense you like online.

I’m also indebted to a poster from the 40′s found in a clean up in some old bush hospital, “You can fret over a needle, or learn to pray over a cot.”

If the federal government really wanted to do something for kid’s health, they would allow schools to ban kids who had not been immunised

Yep. And remove them from their parents.