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MADem

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1. That guy was surrounded by death and illness--he lived a tempestuous life.

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 05:24 PM

Jan 2015

He was a medical savant, though--if not for him, his wife would have been bed-bound for the remainder of her life:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1301717/Roald-Dahl-broke-Patricia-Neals-heart.html

One of their five children was brain-damaged in a horrifying road accident. A second died at the age of seven. Another daughter is the writer Tessa Dahl, mother of supermodel Sophie.
At the peak of Neal's acting career in 1965, only two years after winning an Oscar for Hud, she suffered a series of massive strokes that left her paralysed, unable to walk, partially blind and with severely impaired speech.
Her career appeared to be over, but her husband imposed a brutal recovery regime on her that has since been adopted as the standard therapy for stroke victims.

I agree with him on the measles vaccination--it just makes sense to get it.

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Roald Dahl's Heartbreaking Take on Vaccines [View all] FourScore Jan 2015 OP

That guy was surrounded by death and illness--he lived a tempestuous life. MADem Jan 2015 #1

As a young man, he had servants in Africa, and watched one die of the bite from a black mamba. closeupready Jan 2015 #8

My only regret is that I have but one rec to give this OP. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #2

Well, I gave it another. And a kick. Orrex Jan 2015 #6

Big kick and rec! n/t zappaman Jan 2015 #3

This argument is simple. Indydem Jan 2015 #4

My grandmother went deaf from complications associated with measles abelenkpe Jan 2015 #5

It's easy to "forget" what you weren't taught. Public health issues desperately need to be curricula Hekate Jan 2015 #30

It should be taught in school. Unfortunately, Blanks Jan 2015 #49

Education must begin anew.. annabanana Jan 2015 #7

What a great post. Dahl was my very favorite author as a child and he remains high on that long Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #9

I could have written your post. narnian60 Jan 2015 #22

This makes me sad FunkyLeprechaun Jan 2015 #10

Anti-vaxxers really need to wake the fuck up. geomon666 Jan 2015 #11

The people whom I respect in the autism community user_name Jan 2015 #12

There is no such burden alarimer Jan 2015 #35

Of course those with "compromised immune systems" like kids with HIV would have an alternative vx uppityperson Jan 2015 #38

K&R mountain grammy Jan 2015 #13

K&R! TeamPooka Jan 2015 #14

Surely we don't have anti vaxers here at DU Stuckinthebush Jan 2015 #15

More than you'd think. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #19

There's a poster of anti-vaccination hysteria videos. Archae Jan 2015 #23

It's small but loud. Starry Messenger Jan 2015 #24

We have more than a few. zappaman Jan 2015 #28

A handful Hekate Jan 2015 #32

Like smallpox, measles helped Europeans to decimate and thus conquer the tblue37 Jan 2015 #16

Rouald Dahl hosted and wrote for one of the greatest horror series on American TV aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2015 #17

I never heard of this! zappaman Jan 2015 #29

Squee! nc4bo Jan 2015 #42

C-section births and bottle feeding cause more autism ErikJ Jan 2015 #18

I have a hard time with the C-section one. Ilsa Jan 2015 #26

k&r Starry Messenger Jan 2015 #20

I can't Rec enough. blackspade Jan 2015 #21

No, it's worse. They'd risk the death of YOUR child. AtheistCrusader Jan 2015 #25

K and R! hifiguy Jan 2015 #27

Anti-vaxers are fucking idiots. Iggo Jan 2015 #31

and you are a name caller, so? drynberg Jan 2015 #45

Yeah, but I'm not a fucking idiot. Iggo Jan 2015 #48

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2015 #33

Getting children vaccinated can be traumatic. Kalidurga Jan 2015 #34

My little sister was phobic about needles, and it's an awful thing. Good Mom for braving the storm. Hekate Jan 2015 #55

Not to appear cruel but 20 deaths from 100,000 cases per year? Car wrecks kill more kids... Hestia Jan 2015 #36

The twenty deaths are fairly significant to the people who die. /nt yardwork Jan 2015 #47

He wrote that in 1986 REP Jan 2015 #52

Those are the deaths, not the kids who grow up permanently damaged from measels. Arugula Latte Jan 2015 #53

Guns deaths do, too. valerief Jan 2015 #58

K & R SunSeeker Jan 2015 #37

k&r... spanone Jan 2015 #39

True beleiver cihropractors don't immunize their children Mopar151 Jan 2015 #40

I have a close firend who bought into the whole vaccine-autism hype and didn't FourScore Jan 2015 #41

I'm old enough to remember the fears about polio. ladyVet Jan 2015 #43

Boy oh boy do I remember the fear of polio rurallib Jan 2015 #46

The anti-vaxxers are too young to remember the horrors previous generations knew. Vinca Jan 2015 #44

Autism will probably turn out to be genetic combined with McCamy Taylor Jan 2015 #51

Age 7 had measles. Sickest I have ever been in my life. McCamy Taylor Jan 2015 #50

All schools and pediatricians' offices need a "no tolerance" policy on anti-vaxers. Arugula Latte Jan 2015 #54

modern medicine has done some stupid things demigoddess Jan 2015 #56

I had the measles as a kid. My sister and brother did, too. I don't remember feeling sick. valerief Jan 2015 #57

Congratulations on your good fortune. Barack_America Jan 2015 #59

K & R! HuckleB Feb 2015 #60

I'm adding a link to an article about this in the Washington Post. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2015 #61