I have yet to see any actual scientific data that hasn't been blasted as fraud that provides any degree of correlation (and, more importantly, causation) that vaccination is a Bad Thing (outside what it already says on the tin).
I saw an article which talked about the examples of "Well, my child was vaccinated at this time and soon after developed symptoms of autism" which noted that the type of autism that the children were exhibiting would normally begin exhibiting at that age. I wish I could find that article again so that I can point people at it to make them consider alternatives to their very wrong conclusion.
If I had children, I would vaccinate them. The millions of healthy children vaccinated every year is proof enough for me.
Oh, I also wanted to say that this? Is belief at work. It's not a religious belief, but this is an example of people having faith in something even in the face of evidence that refutes it. This is willful ignorance. I really do not understand this. At all.
(And the idea that there are people out there in the world like this? Makes me sad.)
I guess it's not completely disproven that vaccines could be linked to autism, but if they caused it then everyone would be autistic.
They stopped giving everyone the smallpox vaccine in 1972. The last death from it was only in 1978. It worries me. I'm glad I'm old enough to have had the vaccine, although the estimate that those of us who had it that long ago only have about 1/3 immunity now.
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"NOES but some guy said vaccines cause autism WE READ IT ON TEH INTERNETS IT MUST BE TRUE"
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LOL I.M. FUNNEH
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I saw an article which talked about the examples of "Well, my child was vaccinated at this time and soon after developed symptoms of autism" which noted that the type of autism that the children were exhibiting would normally begin exhibiting at that age. I wish I could find that article again so that I can point people at it to make them consider alternatives to their very wrong conclusion.
If I had children, I would vaccinate them. The millions of healthy children vaccinated every year is proof enough for me.
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(And the idea that there are people out there in the world like this? Makes me sad.)
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They stopped giving everyone the smallpox vaccine in 1972. The last death from it was only in 1978. It worries me. I'm glad I'm old enough to have had the vaccine, although the estimate that those of us who had it that long ago only have about 1/3 immunity now.
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