instead of reading a conspiracy nut you ought to be reading Antivaxxism. Is It A Disease Of The Mind Or The Character ?
in your case, I think that it may be both
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here you go
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Eleanor McBean was born in 1905 in California. Throughout her adult life she was a prodigious writer, anti vax activist, “researcher” and naturally a conspiracy theorist. She was a layperson with no science or medical training at all. That seems to be a prerequisite for this mob.
The first flu vaccine was produced in 1944-45. In fact in 1918 no one knew what caused the Spanish Flu.
“While the experience of the great pandemic of 1918–1919 had given American medical researchers a heightened appreciation of the dangers of pandemic influenza, and while it permitted epidemiologists to enlarge the fund of descriptive information on influenza outbreaks, it had done little to unlock the mysteries of the disease.
If anything, the experience of 1918–1919 served to deconstruct existing biomedical knowledge.”
The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 dramatically altered biomedical knowledge of the disease. At its onset, the foundation of scientific knowledge was information collected during the previous major pandemic of 1889–1890. The work of Otto ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
“It was not known that a virus was the pathogenic agent. Andrewes, Smith, and Laidlaw of the National Institute for Medical Research were able to determine the cause in 1933”
www.psiram.com
By the summer of 1919 that pandemic had burnt itself out. So much for her beliefs about a virus which she didn’t know existed.
None the less Eleanor McBean considered herself quite the expert in all things vaccine related. Definitely a DunningKruger lass.
“In her writings, McBean postulates the existence of a causal connection between the smallpox vaccination according to Jenner and the death of a patient due to an infection with tuberculosis: "[...] was declared immune to smallpox but he too, died of tuberculosis at the age of 20." McBean also views cancer as a result of previous vaccination.”
Such was her true ignorance :-
“Being a layperson, McBean's perspective on health and medical topics must be considered non-professional, as is obvious in her description of a vaccination as an "infusion of poison injected into the blood stream" in the preface to her book "The Poisoned Needle" (ibid. p. 5). ( link above)
She also strongly objected to the introduction of the Salk polio vaccine in 1956 and wrote her strongly worded letter to the Governor of California.
She was ignored. Funny that.
Modern day pro disease zealots still dribble or drool over her ramblings and methods to “educate” the public and irritate politicians, and just like back then, thankfully, Politicians ignored her and the vaccine saved many many lives.
There seems to be one fact that holds true. Intelligence and education should move us forward. Lack of effective education and fixating on past beliefs simply maintain ongoing ignorance.
McBean may have believed the garbage she wrote but it’s disconcerting to see her rot being perpetuated on social media in 2020 in the midst of a pandemic.
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