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Originally Posted by Tiger
My problem with it is a fail to see many studies that seem unbiased and show good results. I will have to find the one study I read that showed vast difference in results based on the industry or public funded studies. I see the science and the results of the other vaccines but fail to see it in the flu shots. It seems like people would be significantly better off taking higher vitimin D loadings than the flu shot. If anybody has any good papers I would be interested in that.
I know people are stupid not taking vaccines for serious illnesses, but as an aside I still worry about the direction that science is going. Science really has now become a '#### you I'm right' type of thing for things like vaccines, climate change, etc.
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It's not a paper, but a report in the Washington Post citing references.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...3d5_story.html
There is a movement toward treating science like a religion, which inevitably leads to the 'black and white' effect. It's probably because the industry around science is about as grey as you can get, and that's no fun at all. In a perfect world, science would be a continuous effort to create a black and white dichotomy, but adding 'cost' creates a world of mud.
I think of the '#### you I'm right' people as wide eyed optimists. And bless their little hearts.