That’s interesting information. I stopped getting flu shots about 20 years ago. Every year the injection site would get a worse and worse reaction. The last shot cause a huge painful and very hot lump on my arm that lasted a week. It was days where my arm was basically useless. My doctor’s response was that wasn’t supposed to happen and to put ice on it. I’ve had the flu twice since then and would rather have the flu than the shot side affects. I’m now wondering if Benadryl would have fixed it.
Vaccine reactions are not rare. My Grandson died 12-6-16 following a DTaP shot.
From Dr. Jim Meehan
October 17 at 9:09 PM
Frequently, those that take issue with my position on vaccines will use the fallacious argument of the majority. They assert that there are “countless” doctors whose opinions on vaccine safety are very different than my own, therefore, because I am (currently) in the minority, I must be wrong.
History is littered with tragedies resulting from mindless group think and mob rule. One day soon, the fraud and corruption of the vaccine industry will be fully exposed and it to will be relegated to the historical trash-heap of tragedies that persisted far too long because of those that coveted consensus above the courage to question the status quo.
Lest we forget, there were “countless” doctors prescribing Merck’s blockbuster drug, Vioxx...even as the body count grew and the evidence of harm became overwhelming. Eventually the inertia of ignorance was exceeded and Merck was found guilty of knowing their drug was deadly, had buried that evidence, attacked dissenters, published fraudulent scientific studies in fake medical journals and counted on their public deception to mislead the mob into buying and using the drug.
Merck paid $4.85 billion in damages to the families of more than 60,000 patients that died from Vioxx. “Countless” other patients were harmed. And yet, even after paying the largest damages settlement in history, they still profited over $10 billion dollars.
Consensus and “the mindless mob” is often wrong. Merck’s corruption and fraud with Vioxx killed more than 60,000 people because the consensus allowed the deaths to mount. We need more skeptics and dissenters to challenge the status quo because left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.