Anti vaxxers

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Originally Posted by valarmorghulis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm perfectly informed. Why do you think they began to remove the compound from vaccines you complete idiot? Research was indicating that it's not safe and that even low levels of it can cause neurological damage.

There is no causal link between autism and vaccines. The original study was withdrawn and the doctor stripped of his medical license. It is interesting to note how much damage vaccine preventable diseases have caused since this movement began.

A 2011 study concluded that the only measurable difference between vaccinated and un-vaccinated children was in the rate of contraction for diseases which can be prevented from vaccination. The only major vaccine-induced illness is Guillain-Barre syndrome which has an incidence of 1 in 1,000,000 vaccinations. However, newer vaccines are correlated with the syndrome with decreasing frequency so as to be statistically negligible in some cases.

Regarding the "chemicals" they put into vaccines, such as mercury compounds, formaldehyde, and so on, many of these were removed 13 years ago as a response to consumer fear. It was later discovered that the ethylmercury poses no risk of bioaccumulation, and the amounts used in the average battery of vaccinations are far below the level of toxicity.

However, let's assume for a brief moment that vaccines are somehow responsible for a variety of maladies. From a policy standpoint the question becomes "which does less harm?" This question was asked during the polio epidemic with the use of the Salk Vaccine (which was tainted by diseased monkey kidney cells). The result was that a non-neglible number of people were injured, but the amount of Polio cases in the U.S. immediately dropped from 56,000 to a mere 5,800. Public policy often faces dilemmas where the decision maker must choose between two outcomes that both contain specific harms. Wise policy is based in mitigating these inevitable harms. Even if vaccines lead to some injuries, over the last 20 years they have prevented 322,000,000 illnesses and saved over $1,300,000,000,000 in societal costs.

The choice is clear.