You can choose to believe 100 years of experience in the medical field, or you can choose to believe ditz brains like Rand Paul and Jenny McCarthy.
Trouble with a libertarian lightning rod like Paul is that everyone with an urban legend to spread comes running his way and he just swallows it.
If I wanted to be libertarian I’d consider Paul one of the worse embarrassments to it, a caricature.
It's not the vaccine per se that's concerning, it's (A) the immunologic adjuvant and preservatives (which can be mercury-based) and (B) the push to negate any role of authority that parents exercise over their children.
I guess Jenny McCarthy’s name is a nice insult to throw out there to take the place of logic. Nice.
I choose to believe my own common sense and (incidentally) the CDC which admits that every vaccine carries a risk of complication and side effect.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
Vaccines are not a panacea. They are not magically immune from risks and complications. They are not all for deadly diseases. And they do not necessarily confer immunity equally. They do not all have the same effect on everyone.
And because of all that it is IMPERATIVE that parents have the final say on whether to administer them or not.
But my mistake I guess...I was born in a free country and I mistakenly keep thinking it should still be that way.