Quote (stockbrokers @ 30 Sep 2014 08:55)
some vaccines damage body immune
Murica at it's finest.
There's absolutely zero scientific evidence to suggest that vaccines are a bad thing.
By and large, vaccines have played a huge role in DOUBLING human life expectancy in less than 100 years.
They've also helped us progress as a society and a people.
Their downside: they very rarely infect people with minor sickness (in comparison to what the vaccination is protecting against)
Their upside: countless diseases completely wiped off of the face of the earth, with more suppressed to the point that you rarely ever hear it's name anymore.
When's the last time you heard of a polio outbreak? Malaria in the western world?
Measles?
How bout an outbreak of west Nile?
Recently, Ebola outbreak anywhere that has access to vaccines?
No, just a couple scattered cases here and there - all of which are people who went to an area prone to infection, and people who knowingly came in direct contact with a person who did so.
Okay, glad that's settled.
In relation to thread, they don't cause autism at all.
It was a private paper published quoting a "top research scientist," who remains uncited, as saying kids with autism received the measles vaccine earlier than those without - in a case study of less than 1000 individuals.
Firstly, sample size is WAY too small to make such a ballsy statement.
Secondly, bullshit paper with no real evidence or citation to back it up; see definition of tabloid.
Thirdly, multiple papers have been published since, along with common sense, indicating that there is no relation - autism is genetic. Vaccines do not alter your genes.
This post was edited by Leeches on Oct 16 2014 07:42am