For example, there is an abundance of easily located biomedical research on the effects of the Edmonston B vaccine that indicates several things that shoot down Tierney's argument and the claims in the document being widely circulated by anthropologists Terence Turner and Leslie Sponsel. For example, many studies have reviewed, over a 40-year time span, the hundreds of millions of cases where this vaccine has been used. This is a very large sample size by any standards. The results show that patients vaccinated do not and have never been known to have communicated measles to uninnoculated people exposed to them after innoculation. It also shows that the small number of patients, mostly in African countries, who died after being innoculated had severely depressed immune systems caused by the fact that they had leukemia, AIDS, severe malnutrition, and similar sicknesses from which they probably would have soon died anyway.
Intelligent people base their judgements on evidence.
Only believers in conspiracy theories and a large number of cultural anthropologists from the Academic Left leap to conclusions that are not only not supported by the available scientific evidence but contradicts and thoroughly refutes them. I've never been in a Yanomam village in the 35 years that spans my research activities among them where there were no children under the age of 10. I've been to at least 75 villages thus far. Because my own research focuses largely on demographic issues, I know it would take many years of fieldwork in dozens of villages to even come close to estimating the allegedly precise statistics Turner dishonestly reported. The Last Days of Eden.