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Originally Posted by Thor
Yet we know that it isn't a problem, because it makes sense to you doesn't mean your feelings on the issue should dictate how we do things over a body of work by medical science of decades of research and study.
The fact is anti-vax movements are masters of taking what feels intuitively wrong like the amount of vaccinations given to children and scaring parents into thinking this is bad for them.
When in fact, we are putting much less into them in modern days than even 10 years ago, and the schedule of shots is done based on 1000's of studies of research and observations.
This is often the biggest problem in these debates, especially when women are concerned, because the mothers become passionately upset and angry when given such false information, they begin to distrust 'science' and 'big pharma' as just people out to make money off of pumping your child full of dangerous stuff.
Its medical science and governments all over the world's failure to respond to these quaks appropriately with informational campaigns. There is also the secondary problem of the truth of these issues requires people to do some reading and not just rely on little images of a guy with quotes as their guide to basing their opinions on one of medical science's greatest achievement of the last 100yrs.
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Fair enough. You make sense, and I feel I make sense. I'm not saying Big Pharma is out to get you... But I am not trying to bring this into the debate here. I believe still that even though the tests say it's safe, and even though there is risk. I can minimize this risk more. Just a spoon full of Diphtheria + Tetanus + Pertussis + Polio + Hib (
Pediacel or
Infanrix-IPV+Hib) helps the medicine go down.