# Kolga and LavenderBlue, get ready for more misinformation **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolga-and-lavenderblue-get-ready-for-more-misinformation/695148 "2014-08-09T06:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolga-and-lavenderblue-get-ready-for-more-misinformation/695148/1 "2014-08-09T06:29:29Z")
…from the anti vaxxer nuts. Here’s the background: On my way into work, I heard a segment on Science Friday, called “Giving Viruses a License to Kill . . . Cancer.” Two cancer researchers, Balveen Kaun from Ohio State, and Stephen Russell from the Mayo Clinic, were talking with Ira Flatow about how they had trained a strain of measles virus to recognize and attack ONLY cancer cells (apparently multiple myeloma), and injected six patients with massive doses. One patient’s cancer exhibited complete response and a second patient achieved partial response. The catch is that the two patients whose cancer responded had no prior availability of measles antibodies in their immune systems, while the immune systems of the four patients who WERE carrying measles antibodies rendered the treatment ineffective. Dr. Russell called this the “antibody block.” Dr. Russell DID go on to say that they are seeing promising results from animal studies deploying strategies designed to get around the antibody block problem. However, given the dishonesty of your typical anti-vax activist, how long does anybody think it will be until they start using selectively picked aspects of this research to claim that “vaccines cause cancer?” :dubious: Anyway, I thought I’d give you a heads-up so you could start putting together your rebuttals. Keep up the good work. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolga-and-lavenderblue-get-ready-for-more-misinformation/695148/2 "2014-08-09T09:17:25Z")
Ah. So getting your immunity to measles the natural way also cleanses your body of cancer. What a wonderful discovery! By giving vaccines, we are depriving children of the healing power that nature gave measles. No wonder cancer rates are going up. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolga-and-lavenderblue-get-ready-for-more-misinformation/695148/3 "2014-08-09T10:06:26Z")
Not gonna make up their erroneous and dishonest arguments for them. I would dearly love to have my prediction prove wrong, though. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolga-and-lavenderblue-get-ready-for-more-misinformation/695148/4 "2014-08-09T14:31:27Z")
🙂 That is cool. My current favorite is the one they’re working on for type I diabetes: > **[Type 1 Diabetes Vaccine Shows Promise In Small Trial](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/262559)** > > A DNA vaccine containing code for proinsulin reduced the frequency of the CD8 immune cells that attack insulin-producing cells in type 1 diabetes. They’re going to develop a vaccine for autism one day. I imagine a lot of brains exploding. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolga-and-lavenderblue-get-ready-for-more-misinformation/695148/5 "2014-08-09T15:06:00Z")
Worser and worser - the measles virus strain involved here was _genetically modified_ to do its job. Thus, anti-GMO loons and antivax crazies must both mobilize to meet this threat. 🙂