I just read the white papers produced by GSK (but it was published by GSK on their website... so, stupid me I guess) for the Swine Flu shot. Simply put, they admit it was not significantly tested on human subjects and did not know the extent of the possible side effects.

Flu vaccines never are, because they have to react quickly to that year's strain of flu.

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Does anyone else find the irony in oppuld posting all of these topics and joining these forums around the release of Deconstruction which basically tears apart this very kind of of self-righteous intellectual masturbation?

I sure would love to live in a world of a series of anarcho-syndicalist communities where we all truly know each other and take our weekly turn on the energy-cycle that pedals to start our great wind machine that powers our own little village. But that's not the world we live in.

This level of indignation, though truly well meaning, hardly differs from proselytizing route of trying to open the eyes of others by dismantling the truths they themselves hold. It's insulting, and reeks of amateur, post-adolescent arrogance.

It's not that these kind of topics don't work, it's just that they don't work when parties involved insult the concepts and ideologies of others and in turn hold their breath until they turn blue when challenged.

Locked.