One of the problems in discussing the "vaccine issue" with most people is that it is not a discussion about science or medicine or even a discussion about some product, it has become a discussion about a religion.
The belief, and that is what it is, that vaccines have been a "miracle" of modern medicine is accepted as an indisputable art…
One of the problems in discussing the "vaccine issue" with most people is that it is not a discussion about science or medicine or even a discussion about some product, it has become a discussion about a religion.
The belief, and that is what it is, that vaccines have been a "miracle" of modern medicine is accepted as an indisputable article of faith. When arguing against such a dogma, which must be done, many will take it as a personal attack on their entire belief system. Cutting through that is the greater challenge in my experience.
If you can get someone to honestly engage it is rather easy to expose the myth that vaccines have been some "miracle cure" for anything.
I like to use the measles example. As your chart indicates death mortality rates from the measles had pretty much evaporated to zero by 1960.
Given the goofiness of legal logic in the US it seems to me if you could prove vaccines weak science leads to something like religion than the government has to tease itself apart from it. Come with better science or fold up shop.
One of the problems in discussing the "vaccine issue" with most people is that it is not a discussion about science or medicine or even a discussion about some product, it has become a discussion about a religion.
The belief, and that is what it is, that vaccines have been a "miracle" of modern medicine is accepted as an indisputable article of faith. When arguing against such a dogma, which must be done, many will take it as a personal attack on their entire belief system. Cutting through that is the greater challenge in my experience.
If you can get someone to honestly engage it is rather easy to expose the myth that vaccines have been some "miracle cure" for anything.
I like to use the measles example. As your chart indicates death mortality rates from the measles had pretty much evaporated to zero by 1960.
The first measles vaccine was liscensed in 1963.
Given the goofiness of legal logic in the US it seems to me if you could prove vaccines weak science leads to something like religion than the government has to tease itself apart from it. Come with better science or fold up shop.
Yes, I’ve read The Virus Misconception by Stefan Lanka