This is Ben. He is immunocompromised and cannot be vaccinated...

[tomp]

31. not trusting government and business....

....seems to me to be an eminently sane starting point, from which, based on available undeniable evidence of systemic corruption, one could hardly go wrong.

There's an old example from medical schools, where the professor of medicine tells students, "25% of what I'm going to teach you is wrong. The problem is, I don't know which 25% it is."

I recently attended a lecture by an eminent medical researcher (I mean absolutely mainstream, highly recognized and honored, eminence gris) suggesting that shifts in the human microbiome, caused by use of antibiotics, particularly, but not exclusively, in cattle, is likely responsible for our epidemic levels of obesity. If that is true, and it really does seem likely, what's to say vaccines don't have similar unintended consequences. However, the bias is so strong against the anti-vaccinationists, that it's even hard to trust supposedly scientific studies purporting to disprove their views.

The facile dismissal of anti-vaccination opinion is part and parcel of a culture gripped by media propaganda. We should be open to varied opinion. I recommend that truly open-minded people take a closer look at the fundamental arguments against vaccinations.