[mykalberta]

I choose to cross the street or drink that coffee and trust that no one will try to run me over or poison me with that coffee. If I so choose I could be anal and dudilligently research which streets had the lowest pedestrian death rates, and skower the interwebs on which coffee was the safest.

When I take a vaccine I am relying on the medical system, a relatively closed and extremely expensive system. One that normal people couldnt afford to research effectively, you normally take the doctor you are given and blindly trust him/her.

From the 60 minutes piece of what I can remember. "Jenny" did the reasearch herself on the web after her doctor gave her no answers. Since her and Jim are in the upper income level, I would assume they had good doctors, not the yellowpages type. And when she brought that possibility to the doctor they in effect laughed at her. Then when she took matters into her own hands her baby got better.

Call them kooks all you want and dogpile, but she basically "saved" her kid when the doctors refused to think outside their preconcieved box. Doctors are not perfect, to think they are is "silly".