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We also need to stop intentionally delivering fake medical care

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacci...

and then wait decades to earn trust back.



That episode probably (hopefully?) hasn't much to do with the Ebola thing. Apparently it has been a huge problem for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. A very, very serious error by the CIA.


It may turn that those actions by the CIA result in more deaths than occurred as a result of 9/11. Absolutely no excuse or justification for using the cover of medical treatment for their para-military reconnaissance in that situation, particularly as it turns out it was never needed anyways.


There was Islamist opposition to polio eradication campaigns before anyone in the West was sure that Osama Bin Laden was in Pakistan. (That's why it surprised me that vaccination campaigns were used as a ruse for verifying his whereabouts, but apparently Bin Laden's personal crazy ideas didn't include opposition to vaccination.) It's not entirely a coincidence that even before anyone heard about Bin Laden, the last few places on earth with endemic polio were all places with militant Islamist movements. Personally, I would rather have my children live long healthy lives, no matter whose idea it was to invent vaccines or to use a vaccination campaign as a pretext to find an international fugitive, but logic doesn't always appeal to people who are already making excuses for being illogical.


particularly as it turns out it was never needed anyways.

Let's avoid armchair quarterbacking.


I was more commenting on zero dark thirty, in which the attempt to get genetic material by the doctor was prevented, and played no role in the actual decision to storm the compound.

You are correct in that the reality may have been somewhat different than the movie.


Your comment is quite irrelevant to the topic of this thread, which is efforts to prevent deaths from ebola, a disease for which there is currently no vaccine.


It's not about vaccines, it's about doctors' access to patients.




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