Comments on: Why is the Indy shilling for Big Pharma? http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/ Please allow me to Introduce myself, I\'m a man of wealth and taste... Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:46:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: jo http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-20997 jo Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:57:09 +0000 http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-20997 I,m with Sam on this one i raised my kids in a similar way to you in the belief that love, good food (breastfed), active lives and avoidance of doctors surgeries would let nature do its thing and provide them with robust health - it has in all respects but allergies. 2 out of 3 have those life threatening nut allergies and a different 2 out of 3 have hay fever. For the nut allergy they carry adrenaline. There is no disputing the affects of this allergy as you state in your article it is deadly, i am not an over protective parent. For their hayfever they take nothing as i assume that desensitisation to this allergen will occur naturally. This type of desensitisation is free and is adapted specifically to the allergens that surround my kids. Eventually i will get to the non-anecdotal part - if the drug company gets away with this one there is a huge seam of ignorance to be mined. Public understanding of allergy and "intolerances"(thanks Ms McKeith) is so poor, from those that assume i am an over protective mother (no, really she could die) to the children who come over to tea and have been convinced they are allergic to milk, wheat, brocolli, twiglets, the colour red - an inexhaustible list. I,m with Sam on this one i raised my kids in a similar way to you in the belief that love, good food (breastfed), active lives and avoidance of doctors surgeries would let nature do its thing and provide them with robust health - it has in all respects but allergies. 2 out of 3 have those life threatening nut allergies and a different 2 out of 3 have hay fever.
For the nut allergy they carry adrenaline.
There is no disputing the affects of this allergy as you state in your article it is deadly, i am not an over protective parent. For their hayfever they take nothing as i assume that desensitisation to this allergen will occur naturally.
This type of desensitisation is free and is adapted specifically to the allergens that surround my kids.

Eventually i will get to the non-anecdotal part - if the drug company gets away with this one there is a huge seam of ignorance to be mined.

Public understanding of allergy and “intolerances”(thanks Ms McKeith) is so poor, from those that assume i am an over protective mother (no, really she could die) to the children who come over to tea and have been convinced they are allergic to milk, wheat, brocolli, twiglets, the colour red - an inexhaustible list.

]]> By: Chris http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13566 Chris Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:57:57 +0000 http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13566 Great work, Unity. Great work, Unity.

]]> By: Sam http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13544 Sam Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:32:33 +0000 http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13544 Nice work. Although why you have decided to write something in which stats, data and the scientific method are all present and very relevant, and then go on and stick your own bit of anecdotal data in, I don't know. But if it's good enough for you, here's my anecdote: I would say my upbringing was quite similar to your kids, at school I had a near perfect attendance record, and rarely go to the doctor. I do have hayfever (though fairly mild). I think the latest theories for the causation of allergies, particularly hayfever are that exposure at an early age to allergens, through a cut, along with genetic predisposition, is the major reason for thing like hayfever, asthma and eczema (which I had as a child). The strength of the immune system is not massively relevant if that is the case. Nice work.
Although why you have decided to write something in which stats, data and the scientific method are all present and very relevant, and then go on and stick your own bit of anecdotal data in, I don’t know.

But if it’s good enough for you, here’s my anecdote: I would say my upbringing was quite similar to your kids, at school I had a near perfect attendance record, and rarely go to the doctor. I do have hayfever (though fairly mild).

I think the latest theories for the causation of allergies, particularly hayfever are that exposure at an early age to allergens, through a cut, along with genetic predisposition, is the major reason for thing like hayfever, asthma and eczema (which I had as a child). The strength of the immune system is not massively relevant if that is the case.

]]> By: Unity http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13538 Unity Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:40:32 +0000 http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13538 I think Blair might have been more convincing if he'd fisked the Indy's front page advertorial himself. I think Blair might have been more convincing if he’d fisked the Indy’s front page advertorial himself.

]]> By: leon http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13536 leon Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:32:33 +0000 http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/06/12/why-is-the-indy-shilling-for-big-pharma/#comment-13536 A fisking of the Indy on the same day Blair slates them? Hmmmmmm...:P A fisking of the Indy on the same day Blair slates them? Hmmmmmm…:P

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