[exDemMom]

If you follow the link in my previous post, you will see the poster merely cut-and-pasted everything in those two posts, verbatim, from an anti-vax website. Not only the journal quotes, but also the website's narrative.

Thanks. I had already pretty much surmised that the links came from an anti-vaccine website. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the website misrepresents what those articles actually said, in order to promote their agenda.

What I don't get, is what is the motive behind fuelling vaccine fears? Is fear-mongering really that lucrative?

[aruanan]

What I don't get, is what is the motive behind fuelling vaccine fears? Is fear-mongering really that lucrative?

Everyone seems to need a devil to blame things on: vaccines, fluoride, nuclear power, technology, banks, rich people, Dar al Harb, US of KKKA, whitey, the Joooos. A lot of people don't need a financial interest at all. There are always a few, though, who manage to find some way of fomenting and capitalizing on those fears. Some prefer the simplicity of blaming on the devil himself. Others need something more tangible they can appear to exert influence on.

[Mase]

What I don't get, is what is the motive behind fuelling vaccine fears?

I can't be sure, because the anti-vaccine movement has been around for such a long time, but I believe a lot of the fear we see today can be traced back to Andrew Wakefield. World renowned vaccine experts Robert Kennedy, Jr. and Jenny McCarthy gave massive publicity to the idiocy Wakefield published in the Lancet, and we've been dealing with neo-Luddites ever since.