When the conversation turned to polio, Dr. Humphries blew just about everyone’s mind on the internet. She challenged one of the most sacred beliefs in modern medicine: that vaccines eradicated polio.
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The truth is that polio wasn’t actually eradicated. “Polio is still here. Polio… pic.twitter.com/wZ91AERL6d
Haven't watched the whole podcast, have no clue who Dr. Humphries is or her credentials at this point.Quote:
When the conversation turned to polio, Dr. Humphries blew just about everyone's mind on the internet. She challenged one of the most sacred beliefs in modern medicine: that vaccines eradicated polio.
The truth is that polio wasn't actually eradicated. "Polio is still here. Polio is still alive and well," Dr. Humphries declared. It's just that a few sleights of hand made the world believe otherwise.
The real change that happened, according to Humphries, wasn't the vaccine's impactit was the definition.
"Polio is called different things today," Humphries explained. "Whereas back in the 1940s, 1950s, the criteria for diagnosing polio were completely different to the year that the vaccine was introduced. The playing field, the goalpostseverything was changed… they were able to show a complete cascading drop of paralytic polio simply because of the way they changed the definitions of what polio is and what could cause it."
After the vaccine rollout, cases that would've been diagnosed as polio were now labeled as Guillain-Barr syndrome, coxsackievirus, echovirus, or chalked up to lead or mercury poisoning.
Just to be clear, I was never a conspiracy theorist until all of the ones I thought were nonsense started to come true.
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