Too bad there are no laws against assholes becoming parents...

[alarimer]

77. This is fucking bullshit

You clearly know NOTHING about vaccines and how they work. As far as entirely preventable diseases go, yes we are "take-no-prisoners", especially when the anti-vaxxers parade their ignorant nonsense, like you have. And in fact, in our capitalistic society, pharmaceutical companies do have a right to turn a profit. They do take much of the risk in drug development (most of which do not actually pan out). I'm not sure they are quite the evil monsters they are made out to be by the woo-wooers on the left.

The following is a blog post running down the profits regarding flu vaccines:

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/flu-vaccine-myth-big-pharma-profits/

Vaccines WORK. The diseases they prevent can KILL. Ask Roald Dahl (you know the famous author, long since deceased) who had a few things to say about vaccines. His daughter died from measles, in the days before vaccines. He wrote this letter 24 years later:

http://www.roalddahlfans.com/articles/meas.php

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

It is not yet generally accepted that measles can be a dangerous illness. Believe me, it is. In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunised are putting the lives of those children at risk. In America, where measles immunisation is compulsory, measles like smallpox, has been virtually wiped out.

Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die.