I studied all this for my dissertation, and it boggles me that people genuinely don't think vaccination is a good idea. There's a reason small pox was eradicated, and it wasn't prayer.
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there are new bills being proposed in Australia to make it harder to get your kids into better school if they're not vaccinated. Honestly- the chances of you dying from that disease are so much higher than the chances of getting autism or anything from it. I'd rather have autism- which I already have a small amount of-than Hepatitis B
Hep b isn't a standard vaccination unless you're going to be studying medicine or vetinary? Also it's not been proven that autism has any link. I've had all my vaccinations and I'm not autistic, same with nearly everyone I know
From a biomedical science background, the amounts of mercury found in the thiomersal in a vaccine has the equivalent amounts that you would get from eating maybe about 2 fish in one day, being in contact with soil/natural ground, or simply by being in the ocean at all. If people think that the mercury in vaccines give you autism, then you better not do any of the other stuff either
Whenever someone tells me kids shouldn't be vaccinated, I tell them to watch Donnie Darko. Yes, there is only a very tiny part about how great antibiotics are, but it also shows there are much more horribly real things out there when it comes to protecting children.
Here's the thing:
Even IF vaccinations did do what these ignorant pseudo-intellectual hippies say they do, at the rates they are claiming it is happening... the risk is still within the acceptable limits that have been established by the FDA for a catastrophic vaccine reaction.
It is therefore a moot argument by default and they are doubly stupid for trying to argue about it.
my grandma died from getting a flu shot so yeah... some vaccines are ok but some are redundant and are actually making viruses harder to control because they adapt to the vaccines and change to survive, damn natural selection is a bitch
Nice anecdotal evidence there, other guest. There's a lot of problems with using that as evidence, one of which being that you can't be certain that there is a causal relationship between the flu shot and your Grandma's death, especially from the information you've given. This is why we have controlled experiments and peer review.
Has that legislation been named for Dana McCaffery?
Even IF vaccinations did do what these ignorant pseudo-intellectual hippies say they do, at the rates they are claiming it is happening... the risk is still within the acceptable limits that have been established by the FDA for a catastrophic vaccine reaction.
It is therefore a moot argument by default and they are doubly stupid for trying to argue about it.