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In reply to the discussion: Can you put down your pitchfork long enough to discuss the root causes of the anti-vax problem? [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Yes, Big Pharma is evil, and yes they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar way too often, with consqiuences of death. However, Vaccines are one part of the medicine equation that has been tested throughly, and whose results have been proven for the past 30 years. The fear of vaccines is based on ideas NOT proven, and also, a very ugly fear of Autism, something whose causes have NOT been established at all. There are many who have ideas, wishes, but zero proof of what actually causes Autism at all, much less the idea that Vaccines have anything to do with it.
It is one thing to be a concerned parent, but when you risk other children's lives because of something you cannot prove, you are a threat to others. That fact is true regardless of Big Pharma. In nations that do not have Big Pharma, let's say Cuba (where kids have been proven to get superior medical treatment, sad to say) do you think that they would allow children not to be vaccinated? No...because they understand that there has to be a standard of health for children, and that aprents do not have the right to deny medical care because of something that is NOT proven.