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RE: The Reality Behind Vaccines
I'm sorry but I'm not buying it. I come from a third world country and I was forced to vaccinate, everyone I know was forced to vaccinate.
I'm sorry but I'm not buying it. I come from a third world country and I was forced to vaccinate, everyone I know was forced to vaccinate.
Well, as far as smallpox is concerned, you would not have been exposed to the risk unless you were born before 1977 when the last recorded case was seen in Somalia.
As of 2017, because of mass vaccination, the only four places where there is even a tiny amount of polio are Afghanistan, Pakistan, the DRC and Syria.
But, if you want to go through the decline of polio to near zero in the last 15 years thanks to mass vaccinations, check out this resource from WHO
So you really think it's safe not to have control groups? What kind of science is that?
Of course not - new vaccines obviously go through rigorous clinical testing before being allowed on the market. This would include use of all appropriate clinical processes, including controls.
My point to you before was only to show that the efficacy of vaccination as a tool for the prevention of certain diseases is proven, utterly and completely, by the literal eradication of several terrible diseases in the real world. And, during the process of those diseases being eliminated by use of vaccination, there were portions of the population on earth who did not get the vaccinations first and who therefore became a point of reference to compare the efficacy of the vaccines in the real world.
Temporary control groups that is, we need to know what the difference is over generations.
But we've had vaccinations for generations already - and the overwhelming majority of people who have been vaccinated experience no negative effects, either short, mid or long term.
There are several myths about vaccines causing various disorders or diseases - primarily autism - but they have been debunked.: and here: and here
But, let me plays devils advocate for a moment. Let's say that tomorrow it was proven that vaccines did in fact increase the overall incidence of autism in children. The alternative is that smallpox and polio still exist - or that measles, and whooping cough still kill infants and toddlers - not to mention the wide variety of diseases rarely seen anymore thanks to widespread vaccination.
But as I've said, autism is not caused by vaccines - nor are almost any major maladies in the great majority of people.
We don't know what the effects are unless we have something to compare to. I could care less if vaccines or aspirins are making people genitals fall off, I'm not saying that vaccines are dangerous or that we'd be better off without. I'm just saying that we don't know, that without those long term studies we don't really know the impact they have. I am saying that it's dishonest to say science has settled what vaccines do because we are not studying groups of people going without vaccines over many generations. No control group no experiment, simple as that.
Can't you compare it to before these vaccines came to be? Like when people were glad that their children made it through childhood? Or when life expectancy was way shorter? I can't tell if you're trolling or if you are serious. This isn't worth your time @dber.
We have better equipment now, better data collection methods too and with blockchains we can actually keep records. Why would we look at the past if we're not going back there anyways with the tech we have now? We should instead look into the future and that's what those control groups would allow us to do.
This is not about our perception of how things were in the past or the stories we may hear about how difficult life was. This is about safety, not trying to scare people into giving up research but actual numbers to show us the impact of not only vaccines but many other treatments.
For all I know the groups will show us that we deteriorate and suffer more without the vaccines, my problem is you claim to know this when you don't.
I wouldn't live to see the impact of studies carried out through many generations so why would I care? You guys can do whatever you want at the end but I will not stand by seeing how people questioning our safety conditions are bashed as anti-science and stuff like that.
I'm glad the anti-vxx people are looking into it because the more these discussions come to be the more it becomes clear that there's still work to be done. When you see people resorting to names to try to discredit a subject and the people talking about it, when you see they throw the same one liners over and over again, when you see they try to put words in your mouth...yeah, every day I grow more convinced that something funny is happening around the subject of vaccines and that's not necessarily thanks to the anti-vaxx but the people who've taken to persecuting them.